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http://www.omniture.com --> Mail Tribune Blogs --> --> « It’s Steelhead versus Bluegill in The Fish Hack’s Piscatorial Tourney Southern Oregon celebrates cheese » We AREN’T scrapping the Scoreboard Posted by Tim Trower If you opened your paper this morning and tried to find the sports TV schedule, or the local schedule of games, or the NBA boxes, NCAA tournament schedule and boxes, golf scores, NHL standings, transactions, you name it, I know how futile and frustrating your search was. We had it all there on the Scoreboard, ready to go at a little after 11 p.m. last night. We pushed the button to send it through imaging and to film and on its merry way. And nothing happened. Well, something happened. Everything locked up and refused to budge. That’s as techy as I get. There were people who knew what they were doing trying to fix the problem, but to no avail and with no time to spare. The newsroom is near the front of a long assembly line. The pressmen, inserters and distribution folks were all waiting on us. When deadline was an hour old, the difficult decision was made to slap a house ad on the page and go without the Scoreboard and the couple of paid ads on the page. As unhappy as people will be this morning, please understand frustration reached a crescendo here, too. And it could have been far worse. It could have been the sports cover that turned into one big house ad. Or an inside page where all the jumps from 1D were supposed to go. Or all the prep roundups could have been obliterated. In the end, we sacrificed one page so the rest of the paper could be delivered. We truly hate to give you this incomplete edition, and we don’t expect it to happen again. This entry was posted on Friday, March 16th, 2007 at 12:38 am and is filed under Sports Insiders . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site. 3 Responses to “We AREN’T scrapping the Scoreboard” Steve Ryan Says: March 16th, 2007 at 10:43 am Thanks for the straight dope. Nice to see companies that make mistakes own up to them and vow to make them not happen again. Very cool! Geoff Pinnock Says: March 18th, 2007 at 6:23 pm Tim, my good man. Been there, done that. I feel your pain. Keep up the good work down there. ryan Says: March 23rd, 2007 at 2:09 am your sports dept has forgotten to post online sports stories and spring prep results for thursday march 22 2007 / Leave a Reply Mail Tribune Blogs is proudly powered by WordPress Entries (RSS) and Comments (RSS) .