Source: Yahoo News Last issue is this Friday. They had some of the best beat writers for the Nuggets. Tough times in Denver their DLeague team the 14ers is also going to fold. Source: Denver Post
Nice video. <object width="400" height="225"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=3390739&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=3390739&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="225"></embed></object><br /><a href="http://vimeo.com/3390739">Final Edition</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/bluerogue">Matthew Roberts</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.
Let's face it, Denver is not really a basketball town. The only main reasons Denver has a team are: --Denver, although much smaller than markets like Chicago and Houston, is still a relatively large market, larger than for example San Antonio and Salt Lake City. --Denver has been an economic boom town compared to many other places over the last 30, 40, 50 years. As for the close of the newspaper, it's just a little tiny drop in a sea of economic disasters. Until an economy is established where people are more important than money and big corporations, this kind of thing is going to continue. In the video, it mentions that bloggers have mostly opinions and not facts to contribute. Knowing this to be generally true, and not liking the idea of being limited like that one bit, I decided to do everything possible to make my reports tilted heavily in the direction of facts. Thus, I have the heavy statistical focus, including my own custom made statistics. In other words, I use the NBA scorekeepers as my reporters to the maximum extent possible. However, traditional reporters are still needed; you can't do every last thing with statistics! Here are two examples of things I would like to know right now, but can't find out unless a reporter is able to report on them, or unless I sneak around Denver for a couple of days, beg for information, and get lucky (with no pay, laugh out loud): 1. What exactly are the incentives in J.R. Smith's contract? 2. At what point in time in the Pistons game did Carmelo Anthony refuse to come out of the game? Traditional off-line organizations including basketball teams will divulge certain information only to traditional reporters. If they don't start divulging the information to some non-traditional reporters who operate online, and the number of traditional reporters shrinks, they will be able to maintain a lot more secrets. In summary, all bloggers should go for more facts and fewer opinions but, in any event, a shortage in reporters who come up with facts that some are trying to hide is here and is apparently going to get worse. Some secrets will be relatively easy to keep regardless of how many "internet news sources" there are, because bloggers are not authorized (or "credentialed" as they say) to dig out the most closely kept secrets, whereas traditional reporters are.
