No mention on sportscenter, endless bable about MNF game, nothing on the local sports news and a short 2 lines in the Seattle papers the next morning. I was quite suprised it wasn't considered newsworthy, I guess it shows just how far soccer has to go.
how much did the seattle papers cover wusa? and sportscenter? that wouldn't surprise either. but (as many people have posted), there's been lots of coverage, some very insightful, some terrible, from all over the country.
I've seen many a blurb on everything from CNN to Sportscenter. How much more coverage did you expect?
maybe you didnt watch sportscenter the day it happened or the day after. It was on it both days. And it was on PTI on the ESPNNEWS channel last night.
It was front page in the Chicago Tribune. And that's not front of the sports section, front of the main section, below the fold.
Not only did Tom Brokaw do a piece on it, but Katie Courac and Matt Lauer (sp) covered it on the Today Show! I don't know what other coverage you could want. It seems that may have been the plan- to get some coverage on the lack of sponsors right before the team is playing ( and most probably winning another true world championship). If that doesn't attract money I don't know what would.
Well, unfortunately it attracted more news coverage in it's demise than it ever did when it was "alive". I can't tell you how many people called me or have come up to me telling me they heard that it folded, so I KNOW it got plenty of coverage, although I really missed a lot of the tv coverage but picked up a whole bunch of newpapers that had it. USA Today has been great in it's coverage of the World Cup and they had WUSA shutting down on the front page. Sigh...