re: I'm on the "Ross Dellenger is a hack" bandwagon after reading this lead...

It is very hackish, to be sure. It's also par for the course. But it helps to have lower expectations of small-market beat writers on deadline.

Game recap stories hardly ever add insight to the event. The quotes are canned, the analysis superficial. I don't read it.

I say this as a Manship grad and former journalist. I appreciate their work because it's pretty thankless and you catch shite from anonymous nobodies, but at the same time there is a very low talent threshold to get a job like that.