Thanks. At the risk of sounding like an Old Man Yelling At A Cloud for the way things used to be, I really miss when papers had more resources to cover things like the Olympics more locally. So we knew better who to look for and even if they, say, played on a team handball team that didn't make it out of pool play, we'd still hear about them and how it was going. For the first time in decades, the Star Tribune in Mpls decided at the last minute to pull their Olympic coverage. Sad for Strib readers who got to read lots of good coverage of the Olympics for decades (much of it by Van Meter, Iowa, native Rachel Blount.)
I'm originally from the Cedar Rapids area, and the Gazette has changed a lot since I moved away in 2006. It makes me so sad! I used to be a front to back newspaper reader 😔
Yes, one of the silver linings about streaming coverage is it's easy to find EVERYTHING rather than have to see what NBC/ABC/CBS (whoever the network is or was) chooses to show us. I'm watching Hungary-France women's team handball right now on Peacock; never would have gotten to see that a decade ago. People thought that NBC triple-cast was such a dumb idea - it was just ahead of its time!
Thank you for sharing these Iowans' stories. I'm excited to keep an eye out for them!
Thanks. At the risk of sounding like an Old Man Yelling At A Cloud for the way things used to be, I really miss when papers had more resources to cover things like the Olympics more locally. So we knew better who to look for and even if they, say, played on a team handball team that didn't make it out of pool play, we'd still hear about them and how it was going. For the first time in decades, the Star Tribune in Mpls decided at the last minute to pull their Olympic coverage. Sad for Strib readers who got to read lots of good coverage of the Olympics for decades (much of it by Van Meter, Iowa, native Rachel Blount.)
I'm originally from the Cedar Rapids area, and the Gazette has changed a lot since I moved away in 2006. It makes me so sad! I used to be a front to back newspaper reader 😔
Thanks, Jane. It’s always fun to have more people, especially women, to watch for in the Olympics.
Yes, one of the silver linings about streaming coverage is it's easy to find EVERYTHING rather than have to see what NBC/ABC/CBS (whoever the network is or was) chooses to show us. I'm watching Hungary-France women's team handball right now on Peacock; never would have gotten to see that a decade ago. People thought that NBC triple-cast was such a dumb idea - it was just ahead of its time!