Thanks again, AP

[HejiraHenry]

From the Conference USA championship game preview:



Whoever has to cover this tomorrow is going to be pissed when they show up to an empty, locked stadium in Hattiesburg.

That did get a writethru a little later. The body of story made clear the game was going to be at WKU. Odd mistake.

 

[Southwinds]

3:44 PM BC-AP Sports Digest
12/21/2015 BC-AP Sports Digest

Great move getting that 3 p.m. digest to us on time. This organization's adherence to its own deadlines is comical at best, farcical at worst.

 

[BDC99]

Thanks AP, but Drew spells his last name Brees, not Breese.

But apparently Deshaun Watson has undergone a name change, at least according to TWO reference in the Clemson advance. Or should I change it from Deshaun Watkins? Sigh.

 

[Southwinds]

Dear national baseball writer who I don't feel it's fair to name,

It's a home run, not a homer.

A home run is when a player touches four bases during his at-bat.

A homer is one of the multitude of people your organization employs who covers sports in the South.

Sincerely,

Someone sick of making that change on first reference

 

[Kolchak]

Thanks for finally sending the Spurs-Cavs box two hours after the game ended Saturday. There were no "delayed at the source" messages, so I'm guessing they just took their sweet time since it was the final game of the night.

 

[HejiraHenry]

National signing day lists, a staple of coverage for years, didn't move in a usable form until after midnight ET.
At least three hours too late to be useful for us.
I had some early warning that this was going to happen. Responsibility for the lists was passed from New York to the AP's Spokane agate farm this year for the first time. I filled the half-page I usually reserve for those SEC lists with an abridged form of the league capsules they moved on a more timely basis.
The lists can run Friday, but I hate they weren't ready sooner.

 

[Batman]

Yeah, that pissed me off too. I kept waiting and waiting, and finally did it myself. They moved them on the wire 15 minutes later.

 

[Calvin Hobbes]

Thanks for finally sending the Spurs-Cavs box two hours after the game ended Saturday. There were no "delayed at the source" messages, so I'm guessing they just took their sweet time since it was the final game of the night.

Should have been able to put the paper to bed 30-45 minutes ahead of deadline. Waiting for a Cavs box that never came left us up against it before I finally called it. Almost 1 a.m. before it moved. No excuse for that, minus a technical issue.

 

[Batman]

In the lede of the Hall of Fame story tonight, they told a touching story about Brett Favre driving to New Orleans to attend Ken Stabler's last game -- in 1994.
It was good of the Saints to let him make a comeback 10 years after he retired and somewhere around the age of 50. Even better for the Packers to give Favre a Sunday off to go see it.

 

[KYSportsWriter]

Looking at next week's TV sked, whoever handles that stuff now called Arkansas-Pine Bluff "Arkansas-Pine Brook" in its game against Alcorn State. Good job, AP.

 

[nietsroob17]

Is it just me, or has nothing come across AP Exchange for nearly an hour and a half (as of 4:59 Eastern)?

 

[BDC99]

Nope. Nothing since 3:30 on sports wire.

 

[nietsroob17]

On the AP main website...


SYSTEM STATUS
February 19, 04:45pm EST: We are currently experiencing a disruption in photo and text delivery to our AP delivery systems. Our engineers are further investigating the issue.

 

[MNgremlin]

Stupid question time...

How do you report score corrections to the AP? Is there an email address or a twitter handle you can send it to? Last night there was a score attributed to a local team, but it wasn't a local game, and they used a co-op name from a different sport.

 

[KYSportsWriter]

We've always called the Louisville shop, or they've called us if they needed a score.

 

[HejiraHenry]

Stupid question time...

How do you report score corrections to the AP? Is there an email address or a twitter handle you can send it to? Last night there was a score attributed to a local team, but it wasn't a local game, and they used a co-op name from a different sport.

I deal directly with the AP's score center in Spokane. It's [email protected] - usually does the trick.

 

[MNgremlin]

Quality cutline, Canadian Press!

Minnesota Timberwolves guard Andrew Wiggins (22) Toronto Raptors guard Cory Joseph (6) Toronto Raptors guard DeMar DeRozan (10) and Toronto Raptors forward Patrick Patterson (54) during the second half of an NBA basketball game, Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016 in Toronto.

 

[HejiraHenry]

Sunday:
1, Indiana-Maryland gamer wrote through twice without fixing INDIANAPOLIS dateline. | I called New York about that.
2, SEC women's championship gamer never did write through with Mississippi State coach/player quotes. No "loser lead" ever moved.

 

[wheels89]

Sunday:
1, Indiana-Maryland gamer wrote through twice without fixing INDIANAPOLIS dateline. | I called New York about that.
2, SEC women's championship gamer never did write through with Mississippi State coach/player quotes. No "loser lead" ever moved.

On the second point, only time a hometown lead moves on women's basketball is if a team ranked in the Top 10 loses.

 

[BDC99]

On the second point, only time a hometown lead moves on women's basketball is if a team ranked in the Top 10 loses.

Yeah, they haven't made anything beyond the top 10 a priority. Wondered if that would change as the games become more important. Guess not.