Letters To The Edito

Christmas jeer

To my Husky friends,

‘Twas Christmas ‘98 and all over the Palouse,

Not a creature was stirring, no footballs were loose.

Cougars were resting, some in their beds

With visions of a Rose Bowl still in their heads.

But in the Pacific, Huskies were abuzz,

A meaningless Bowl game, O’ahu it was.

Now about this same time, Santa was ready

For his Christmas deliveries, in his sleigh so steady.

When he flew over Hawaii, he said, “Sakes alive,

That looks like the Huskies, but they were 6 and 5”

Now Santa wears red, but not for the fashion.

His clothes are all crimson ‘cause COUGS are his passion.

When he looked down and saw purple and yellow,

“Down with the Dawgs!” cried this jolly old fellow.

So the plan he devised, you wouldn’t have believed,

His reindeer had eaten, but hadn’t relieved.

He circled his sleigh and steered it in low.

When they were over the Dawgs, his reindeer let go.

The sound and debris made such a clatter,

That Lambright looked up to see what was the matter.

The stuff did fall, on Huard, on Hooker,

On Dalan, on Pharms, on Hairston, on Looker.

It hit thousands of Huskies, surely no fewer,

It rained from the sky, this Christmas manure.

As Santa flew off on that bright Christmas Day,

People who were there heard that jolly man say,

“Merry Christmas to you and to you and to you,

Down with the Huskies! Forever WAZZU!” Ray Stein Mead

Reign coverage was all wet

Ah, now I see how the ABL can get decent coverage in your paper: Fold!

Why didn’t they think of that earlier? Then they could have had front-page coverage, with two pictures, instead of just two paragraphs buried in the back of the section.

It seemed a bit curious to me that with the NBA on strike you could never find room to cover the Reign with the space they deserved. (I was even planning to write you a letter to this effect, but hadn’t the time during the holidays.) Especially since, one time when I spoke with you about women’s basketball coverage, you said that it was partially based on game attendance. Hmmm, according to your own paper, the WSU men’s team is getting less than 2,000 per game, yet the Reign were getting more than 3,000 for every game, (and nearly 6,000 the day after Thanksgiving at the Key).

Yet, the coverage for WSU was more than three times that of the Reign. It’s no wonder the league folded, with such a lack of respect shown by the media.

As a women’s basketball fan, I am saddened by the loss of the ABL. Who knows when or if the WNBA will deign to give Seattle a franchise. Of course, if they do, we probably won’t hear much about it in your paper. Kris Rudin Spokane