News groaner of the day
This one comes from the N&O, reporting the news that USA Baseball is carrying on its Tar Heel state tradition again in this Olympic year:
U.S. baseball to play 4 games in Cary
The Associated Press
DURHAM - The U.S. Olympic baseball team will play four exhibition games in North Carolina before heading to the Beijing Games.
USA Baseball officials on Tuesday announced the team's pre-Olympic schedule. The U.S. will play Canada once at USA Baseball's national training complex in Cary on Aug. 1, and three times in Durham on Aug. 2-4.
The Americans have qualified for the Olympics in baseball for the first time since winning the gold at the Sydney Games in 2000....
Anyone see the problem with this one? Big question is, did the headline come from the AP or the Raleigh folks?
wow--that is ridiculous
Posted by:Shane | May 13, 2008 at 01:12 PM
Looks like the original AP hed was "Team USA to play 4 exhibitions in N.C."
That's how it appears in about a dozen other publications:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ned=us&q=%22Team+USA+to+play+4+exhibitions%22
And usually online publishing systems for newspapers just pull the AP hed without adjusting it.
I think we can blame the N&O online folks for that one.
The N&O bylined story in the paper today had it right: "Triangle will host U.S."
Posted by:Jonathan Jones | May 14, 2008 at 11:33 AM