Today, the University of Houston men’s basketball team won a tough road game in overtime.
The Rice men’s basketball team narrowly lost to #3 Memphis at Autry Court.
And here is Chron.com’s scoreboard:
Nice coverage of the local guys.
A reader could at least turn to the posted AP coverage of the UH game:
Lanny Smith scored 20 points and Brian Latham tallied 17 points and 18 rebounds to lead Houston to a 64-60 overtime win against East Carolina on Saturday.
Houston (14-6, 5-3 Conference USA) shot only 28.6 percent from the field in the first half, and East Carolina (7-14, 1-7) went to the locker room at the break with a 35-28 lead having shot 44 percent.
Whoops. That was Ramon Dyer who tallied 17 points and 18 rebounds, not Brian Latham. Guard, forward, what professional sports journalist can tell the difference?
The newspaper will surely post Michael Murphy’s coverage tomorrow (probably replacing the AP story with it), and Murphy does a good job covering UH athletics. But that really doesn’t address the dysfunctional online scoreboard (which strangely can show UT and Texas A&M scores, but never the local guys) or the fact that a (temporary) online story about a local team contained errors.
As Dwight Silverman might say, Chron.com’s coverage of local sports really needs to evolve.
