Sadly, major newspapers are cutting back. When I look at the sports section of the San Antonio paper, most days I see 8 pages. One page of those is a classified section (remember when newspapers ran separate, multi-page classified ad sections ... oh, yeah, and all that section was $$$$ in the newspaper's cash drawer) and half a page is the weather. The days when those papers would toss a sawbuck or two to a stringer for covering the East Muleshoe vs. Podunk Springs football game are long, long gone.
Even the statewide AP scores usually end at 3A, maybe 2A if there is extra space. 1A, six-man and private schools? Fuggedabouit. (They will carry the scores of local teams.)
Small town, local papers (towns of 25,000 or so) aren't doing as poorly. Neither are the neighborhood papers in suburban areas. Why's that? Because those papers know that when they cover what is going on the the schools, churches, neighborhoods (especially good news) people buy the papers -- pick them up if they're the freebie type -- and patronize the advertisers.
But keep calling in scores and stories to the big papers -- send your score to the AP score wire. Don't let them say "we don't carry those scores and stories because nobody gets them to us."
