At the top of today's Tampa Bay Times sporps section
December 18th, 2017 at 10:20 AM ^
their editorial staff and for the most part have inexperienced, poorly qualified people filling that role. In some cases, I think they actually don't have someone else checking the content before publishing.
December 18th, 2017 at 11:17 AM ^
December 18th, 2017 at 10:05 AM ^
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December 18th, 2017 at 10:40 AM ^
Poor Sparty.
Can't even get in on a typo.
December 18th, 2017 at 10:08 AM ^
Yeah, they are playing in the SPORPS Outback Bowl. ;)
December 18th, 2017 at 10:12 AM ^
December 18th, 2017 at 10:24 AM ^
Iowa played Florida in the Outback Bowl last year, and some poor intern was probably tasked with pulling up and ad and ended up googling "2017 Outback Bowl".
December 18th, 2017 at 10:39 AM ^
Right, but the first thing that comes up when you google it is the score of the game.
December 18th, 2017 at 10:29 AM ^
in all sporps.
December 18th, 2017 at 10:35 AM ^
This is what the ones at MSU's training table look like...#redlocked
December 18th, 2017 at 10:49 AM ^
I can't help but notice the "Ticketmaster.com" across the bottom of the graphic. Are we sure this isn't some kind of advertisement (meaning the error was made by Ticketmaster and not the newspaper)?
December 18th, 2017 at 11:37 AM ^
December 18th, 2017 at 11:50 AM ^
December 18th, 2017 at 11:41 AM ^
December 18th, 2017 at 11:57 AM ^
Or is there some inside joke I’m not getting?
December 18th, 2017 at 1:05 PM ^
Check the title of the post. Sporps is used
December 18th, 2017 at 12:03 PM ^
I can't be the only MGoBlog reader who's seen "sporps" around, can I? Have I really been around here that long?
December 18th, 2017 at 12:27 PM ^
December 18th, 2017 at 1:07 PM ^
One wonders which bay-area high school they have doing the editing. The Tampa Bay Times is a joke, plain and simple, and they struggle to stay relevant down here. (They boast pulitzers, but won them before they went nearly all-editorial) They have a side periodical named "TBT*" that's a sarcastic, hot-take rag that gets more readership.
Point being; I'm not surprised by this glaring error.
December 18th, 2017 at 3:26 PM ^
I'm definitely not here to tell you you're wrong to hate the Times, but a few points of fact:
- That's an ad. No editors were harmed (or involved) in the making of this mistake.
- The Tampa Bay Times has won 12 Pulitzers in all, and four in the last five years. That's … a lot, and clearly they're not relics of the past. They just won two in 2016.
- It's hard to compare the Times' circulation to tbt*'s, since one is a paid daily newspaper and the other is a free weekday-only tabloid. But tbt* has an average weekly readership of 392,900; the Times' average daily readership is 998,600 (884,800 on Sundays). Again, that's nearly a million readers daily for the Times, compared to less than half that weekly for tbt*. There's not much of a point about quality to be made here, tho', since tbt* just repackages the same news you'd find in the Times (with snarkier headlines, as you noticed).
December 18th, 2017 at 1:37 PM ^
And the left still wonders why no one trusts the MSM anymore. Talk about fake news!
December 18th, 2017 at 2:28 PM ^
I like Florida to cover the points in this one. I'll even make it my three-star best bet for the week. Lock it up.
December 18th, 2017 at 2:41 PM ^
December 18th, 2017 at 2:57 PM ^
THESE GODDAMN KIDS AND THEIR GODDAMN SPORPS
December 18th, 2017 at 3:13 PM ^
December 19th, 2017 at 11:08 AM ^
This wasn't just words buried in an article. It was front page, above fold, top corner, with color pictures...and logos - of two teams with no right to be anywhere in the conversation about a new years day bowl game. No one caught it.
December 19th, 2017 at 4:13 PM ^
… essentially everyone at the bowl committee, Ticketmaster — everyone — who could've caught this mistake essentially landed on "C'mon, it's the Outback Bowl. How much does any of this really matter?"