Not very many local dailies do a good job covering local sports. To many gloss over high school teams in favor for more space given to major league teams and major colleges. Give credit to the Olympian for hiring a high school sports writer, and for giving him some pretty good placement in the paper the last couple weeks.

Brian's story this morning on the Tumwater/Aberdeen wrestling match is a good example of quality preps coverage. First, wrestling is very hard to cover in Washington because instead of just one game, there are sometimes over a dozen matches a night all wrapped into one event. Choosing to cover one match, or just a handful, is a tough choice for a reporter.

Second, because most don't follow preps closely, wrestling isn't a high profile sport. Because there aren't many college wrestling programs in the Northwest, there are also very few high profile wrestlers on the high school level. Covering wrestling and covering it well, is a hard choice for a newspaper in a low attention area.