The Sunday Sports Page

[CrewToon]

I was a bit stunned this morning that the US World Cup match was the lead sports story in The Columbus Dispatch even though the US Open was taking place.

But the real shocker was that both New York tabloids had a bloody Brian McBride on the back cover instead of Phil Mickelson in possible position to win his third straight major - with the US Open being held in metropolitan New York.

Did all your local newspapers lead with World Cup as well?

[toivo99]

I work for a very (VERY) small daily newspaper in the sports department ... damn straight it was the top story.

[Deegs]

The top Sport headline in the LA Times as well. Poor b&w photo of a bloodied Mc Bride inside as well, bad printing. I was rather surprised myself. Usually, it is on front page but not the headline story.

[Dirty_South_Futbol]

Anyone know where I can get a photo of a bloodied McBride?

Someday, I am going to have a black and white photo of him bloodied up on the pitch on my wall, where everyone else and I can see it. It is inspiration. Seriously, that guy's toughness and heart give me hope and pride every single match.

[Dusky]

Seriously, that guy's toughness and heart give me hope and pride every single match.

Doesn't he bruise easily? I think I've seen him in similar situations three times, and I'm just counting appearances in the USAMNT.

[boomersooner027]

The Dallas Morning News runs two different sports sections on Sunday(don't ask me why) and there was a big picture of Dempsey going up for a header on the front page of one of them with the lead story.

[CK]

Unfortunately, I had to dig all the way to sports page 6 in my local newspaper (New Orleans). :( The US Open got the headline, while other articles included one LA Hall of Fame inductees, new coach and UNO, and a Katrina recovery story on a local high school football team.

[mcontento]

Front page w/ photo of The Washington Post (page A1, not just sports section)

[FirstStar]

First page sports section in Charlotte, but below the fold (Hockey is considered a local story here now and this is golf heaven, so US Open is the big lead). In the Charlotte Observer's defense, they have been running page A1 banners on the World Cup the past week (US against the World, etc.).

[ignatz]

Washington Post: Top of front page four-column color picture of Beasley and Nesta fighting for the ball; top of front sports page five-column color picture of Keller saving against del Piero, with headline "A Victory in a Tie."

Second sports story was the Nationals overcoming a 7 run deficit to beat the Yankees 11 to 9.

The Post has three reporters in Germany for the Cup.

Not bad. Not bad at all.

[Texas4x4]

Can you imagine what it will be like if we make it through to play Brazil.

[lemons]

That'd be pretty cool. I'd love to go up against Brazil to see how we fare. That being said, I'd rather play Australia as they would be easier to beat than Brazil. But that's getting ahead of ourselves; we aren't out of the group yet.

Media-wise, the press would go nuts. "America vs. the mighty Brazilians", etc. etc. I'd love to see it.

[KimmySwimmy]

both the new york post and daily news have the bloody brian mcbride on the back page...BUT the actual coverage in the paper is okay.

[peledre]

That'd be pretty cool. I'd love to go up against Brazil to see how we fare. That being said, I'd rather play Australia as they would be easier to beat than Brazil. But that's getting ahead of ourselves; we aren't out of the group yet.

Media-wise, the press would go nuts. "America vs. the mighty Brazilians", etc. etc. I'd love to see it.
Brazil has looked very ho-hum in their first two matches. They are not on a different level from all the other teams here at the tourney like most people thought going in. If you pressure them defensively and don't give them any space to create than they struggle.

[Nitrain00]

"Brazil has looked very ho-hum in their first two matches. They are not on a different level from all the other teams here at the tourney like most people thought going in. If you pressure them defensively and don't give them any space to create than they struggle."

Their flashes of brilliance, however, provide some excitement and reason for others to be concerned. Also, I disagree in a way that they are not on a different level than the other teams. As a team they are beatable, as individuals they are not. Of course this is just my opinion. They are human and make mistakes, in fact lucky to have gotten a clean sheet today, but over the years and in past World Cups we have seen this team that plays almost whimsically until they decide to "turn it on." They are not sharp but please also consider that they did not get to play many warm-up matches against top sides in the way that others did and it shouldn't be much of a surprise that they are taking longer than others to shake the rust off. Also they have the problem of Ronaldo and having to start him when clearly Robinho is in better form. Maybe next game we will see Robinho start. All I am really saying is do not underestimate this team. By the way I am a US fan in Germany.

[Sempuukyaku]

"Brazil has looked very ho-hum in their first two matches. They are not on a different level from all the other teams here at the tourney like most people thought going in. If you pressure them defensively and don't give them any space to create than they struggle."

Their flashes of brilliance, however, provide some excitement and reason for others to be concerned. Also, I disagree in a way that they are not on a different level than the other teams. As a team they are beatable, as individuals they are not. Of course this is just my opinion. They are human and make mistakes, in fact lucky to have gotten a clean sheet today, but over the years and in past World Cups we have seen this team that plays almost whimsically until they decide to "turn it on." They are not sharp but please also consider that they did not get to play many warm-up matches against top sides in the way that others did and it shouldn't be much of a surprise that they are taking longer than others to shake the rust off. Also they have the problem of Ronaldo and having to start him when clearly Robinho is in better form. Maybe next game we will see Robinho start. All I am really saying is do not underestimate this team. By the way I am a US fan in Germany.


Good analysis. I'm not particularly excited about having to meet Brazil in the round of 16 should we advance, lol. :(

[Ismitje]

The "tickle" on the front page (section A) in the Spokane Spokesman Review is about Mickelson, but the top of the fold front sports page story is the USNT. The photo is McBride up for a header, but not the bloodied shot. The accompanying article is Steven Goff's from the Post; an inside story from Filip Bondy of the NY Daily News also appears with another large photo (of Pope's last play).

My small local paper (Moscow-Pullman Daily News) is Monday-Saturday only; the editors aren't really consistent in how they deal with the stories that would've gone in a Sunday paper. Guess it isn't the "daily news" after all . . .

[dfb547490]

The bloody McBride picture was the main photo on the front page of the Philadelphia Inquirer, with the headline "Bloodied but not Beaten".

Not the front page of the sports section--the front page of the whole paper. Very cool, especially since the Inquirer's soccer coverage is usually non-existent beyond brief AP writeups of MLS games and longer AP writeups of US games (although in fairness the coverage during this WC has been decent).

[seahawkdad]

Washington Post: Top of front page four-column color picture of Beasley and Nesta fighting for the ball; top of front sports page five-column color picture of Keller saving against del Piero, with headline "A Victory in a Tie."

Second sports story was the Nationals overcoming a 7 run deficit to beat the Yankees 11 to 9.

The Post has three reporters in Germany for the Cup.

Not bad. Not bad at all. Here's the image (only good for today...it'll change tomorrow)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/fpImages/fp_front.jpg
And, now, the front of Sports:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/fpImages/fp_sports.jpg

[macman]

My local paper, the Harrisburg (PA) Patriot-News, doesn't have an above the fold system, as the Sports section is tabloid style, even though the rest of the paper is a broadsheet. They decided to put a picture from a local high school pointy ball all star game on the front page, as well as the first two pages of the section itself. There was a teaser about the match on the front page of the Sports section, but you had to go all the way to page 18 to get the game report. All this from a paper that is the hometown paper of Ben Olsen, too.