Otterblog

If you’ve lived in this area for any length of time—say, more than five minutes—you know that people take their college athletics seriously. Very seriously. I frequently believe there are readers who do word counts on our coverage of Wake Forest and compare it with UNC or Duke or whatever.

We got an interesting e-mail this morning from an irate reader blasting us for not having an advance on the ACC Track Championships starting at WFU today. His theory was that our sports department is run by UNC grads who look for an opportunity to ignore everybody else.

We know who our home teams are (WFU, WSSU and ASU), but we also know that fan loyalty and interest cross county lines. And I’ve found that often the harshest critics of athletic teams are the reporters who went to those schools.

For those keeping score, here’s the rundown on universities attended by our sports staff, starting with our sports editor: Florida Southern, Duke, UNCG, Wake Forest, UNC, High Point, Lees-McRae, USC, Radford, Georgia, Bowling Green, Miami of Ohio, Averett, ASU, Florida. We have four folks who attended UNC, not that surprising considering it has a large and well-regarded journalism program. Tied for second place, with two apiece: Wake Forest and Bowling Green, home of the Falcons.