Avalanche-Journal altering for the far better with shift to digital
The weirdest items took place a though back.
My father texted me about a story he saw on the Avalanche-Journal internet site.
Now, let me action back again a bit and deliver a little bit of context about my father, who is about as outdated-faculty as it receives. Also, him texting something to me will be a column for a different time.
But I digress.
Longtime readers, who have read my previous columns, realized my father is all about preserving up with the most up-to-date matter his “sports editor” son does in Lubbock. I’ve shared a time or two that contacting my mom and dad following a high faculty or Texas Tech match has come to be a ritual of types for the duration of the greater part of my ten years-extended profession.
A litany of issues can be chatted about — how the Cowboys will do, is Texas Tech anticipating to have a very good period in soccer are just some of the normal matters with him.
That adjusted when he texted me about a tale I wrote about a Texas Tech baseball game back in the spring. He broke a longtime ritual and proved a issue I’d been mentioning to him for a number of months prior.
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Sure, it is not the exact same as him reading through the newspaper in the morning with his espresso prior to he headed out to perform close to 5 or 6 in the morning just about every day in El Paso.
Now, after I ordered an iPad for him, he simply cannot get around the simple fact that he sees the newspaper and doesn’t have to go out and select it up in the driveway — and, yes, the laziness has trickled down.
But, the other matter he likes is becoming capable to uncover out scores and studies at the conclude of the game and becoming equipped to interact with close friends, spouse and children or his individual son when he wants to rant or rave.
Dependent on if the printer functions, he’ll possible display the latest story at operate as a talking position. All over again, a column for a different time.
This brings me to my main column place — yeah, I buried the lede.
The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal athletics employees is commencing to set far more emphasis on masking the athletes and telling their tales through victory and defeat. Yes, you are going to nevertheless get the ultimate rating soon after the game, and stats, as we’ve often completed.
But, we’re also likely to let you know about the celebrity athletes and what makes them tick with our subscriber-only tales and other written content we are going to post on the web.
That consists of spreading out the large school football tab, which will not publish in print this tumble. We have been publishing crew previews considering the fact that the middle of the summertime and produced a landing site on www.amarillo.com for you to simply locate info on the teams and players you treatment about.
It truly is the soccer tab — in electronic variety with loads of house to convey to the distinctive tales of our spot and regional squads and athletes.
Talking of, you’ve read time and time once more when previous reporter Alexis Cubit wrote about Smyer’s Gareth Ambler likely by way of lifetime with out the use of his appropriate hand. The lineman also shed both of those of his mothers and fathers in the span of two a long time.
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Stephen Garcia, who lately took the reigns of the high university portion, in depth the bliss New Offer mentor Jason Ybarra felt when he at last brought a Class 2A state title dwelling to his alma mater for the initially time in system record.
So this slide, be expecting to know more about the journey of Lubbock-Cooper’s Kobie McKinzie, an Oklahoma verbal commitment or his teammate Kyler Jordan, a Baylor commitment.
And we’ve got Division I potential clients at the small-faculty stage, as well, these types of as Post’s Isaiah Crawford (Baylor commit) and Zach Courtney (Colorado dedicate).
Do not assume we’ll forget about about the other athletics, possibly, as we’ll keep on to locate tales with Trinity Christian volleyball and their attempt to safe another state title or see if Springlake-Earth’s Taytum Goodman carries on her torrid rate for the duration of the cross country period.
I’d be undertaking a enormous disservice if I did not point out Trey Hayes and the Lubbock ISD swimmers — let us not forget about the Lubbock High girls are on the lookout to a few-peat.
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We will continue to deliver you the identical stories at the school amount, as very well.
The big difference will be that our emphasis will be to supply these stories to the website very first because our print deadlines are previously this 12 months. We will be not able to get substantial university stories and scores from Friday evening soccer game titles into the Saturday paper.
You observed the shift in the middle of last season, but this is a reminder that these games and outcomes will look in total as a awesome area in the Sunday paper, which quite a few more visitors get.
And really do not fail to remember — these tales will nonetheless be on the internet correct after the motion Friday evening.
The A-J will nevertheless be at the most significant online games reporting on the match-profitable touchdowns and fourth-quarter defensive stands, but we’re also likely to check out some new means to convey to tales to engage our readership in different approaches.
That may be through photo galleries, videos or podcasts.
With that in mind, I’m heading to listen to our visitors on what will work and doesn’t. We want to give you much more than you see by sitting down in the stands.
That’s been the aim and often will be as prolonged as I’m the sports editor.
Together individuals lines, I’m sure my father will send me a text with a further website link — possible about this column and how he hates becoming outlined. Heck, even my mother, also.
But, it’s good to know he’s usually next together.
And I hope you do, far too.
Carlos Silva Jr. is the sports activities editor at the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal and Amarillo World-News. He can be achieved by cell phone at (806) 766-8736 or by e-mail at csilva@lubbockonline.com.
