CONTAINING LINKS TO 1280 STORIES FROM THE NETWORKS' NIGHTLY NEWSCASTS
     COMMENTS: Local Sports Fare Given Network Treatment

High school sports stories are normally fodder for local newscasts not the networks' nightly news. Yet ABC chose to air a hoops story from Dallas on Friday and now CBS covers football from Louisville. CBS' Jeff Glor brought us the tragedy of Max Gilpin, a 15-year-old offensive lineman who keeled over during practice in the dog days of August and died three days later. His coach Jason Stinson is being prosecuted for reckless homicide. Friday ABC's Ryan Owens told us about the girls of Dallas Academy Bulldogs basketball team, defeated 100-0 by The Covenant, a Christian school. When the Christians were exposed for running up the score they issued an apology: "It is shameful and an embarrassment that this happened." Coach Micah Grimes is now fired.

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