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Talked with some folks familiar with Sports Day and they said the college coverage will look completely from now on. According to these people, this is what they know.

1. Kate is no longer our beat writer. That is supposedly going to Bobby Roquemore. She will handle SMU and TCU. However, she is supposed to follow June Jones every move this year.

2. Kate is supposedly moving over to cover the Big 12. Chuck Carlton is the national college beat writer -- think he was already in that role.

3. No "beat writer" in Austin, Lubbock, College Station and Norman. Because the staff keeps trimming down, they are going to just follow the news with whoever is available. That could be a reason why Chip Brown left. I guess the college writers are Chuck, Kate, Bobbi, Brandon George and maybe a couple of people. Brian Davis who was doing A&M is now a Cowboys beat writer.

Again, this is what I have been told. I guess we'll find out how it meshes when workouts start and bylines start showing up to stories.

Just passing it along. I hope our "journalist" Scoops can handle the quasi-SMU angle here.

Where did Chip Brown go?

M Street Stang wrote:Where did Chip Brown go?

Yahoo/Rivals to cover UT for them.

Bobby Roquemore? Is "she" new to the DMN?

By the way, one week after the CUSA media blitz in Memphis, and still not a single mention from the morning snooze. MWC and even the SBC got small coverage.

ALEX LIFESON wrote:Bobby Roquemore? Is "she" new to the DMN?

By the way, one week after the CUSA media blitz in Memphis, and still not a single mention from the morning snooze. MWC and even the SBC got small coverage.

Bobbi has been here for about a year. She covered high schools.

Thanks, I found her now. Well, it looks like she knows a lot about girls high school bb.

ALEX LIFESON wrote:Thanks, I found her now. Well, it looks like she knows a lot about girls high school bb.

What about women's golf?

Bush Library??????

I was in a Wal-Mart store in Canton(East Texas) the other day and the DMN had some booths set up. They were having you register for a drawing to win $200 worth of groceries. While you were registering they were asking if you took the DMN. I told them I had cancelled my subscription years back. He asked if I was interested in sports and that set me off. I told him that was the reason I had cancelled. I was an SMU grad and their coverage of SMU athletics was pathetic. He had no reply. I just walked away. Don't know how many cities they are doing this in. Anyone else seen them?

is this her?

Bobbi Roquemore is a Cleveland native who got her journalism degree from Marquette. She began her career in 1999 as a reporter and copy editor at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, but left the newspaper after three years to work for Ebony Magazine. Roquemore returned to the daily newspaper as a full-time reporter in 2002. She had the Preps Plus beat for three years, and became the UW-Milwaukee men's basketball beat writer last season.



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Locker room confidential: Female reporters tackle big-league stereotypes

Oct 12, 2006

Bobbi Roquemore said she thinks the athletes have been cooperative ... but getting in to talk to them seems to be a major hurdle.

"I'm more bothered by the fact that I'm usually the only female there, so security personnel and other staff always ask for my credentials on the way in, on the way out. 'Can I help you?' 'Are you looking for something?'" said Roquemore. "Once they get to know you, of course, that initial shock goes away, but for visiting teams and their people, it's always an issue. It's not the athletes, it's their handlers. Trust me, as a reporter, I just want to get my info and get out, no time for mingling!"

For Bobbi Roquemore, getting in was the easy part. Staying in has been a challenge at times.

"If someone had told me that I'd be one of only 20 black females out of 2,200 sports reporters in the U.S., maybe I would have considered other options," said Roquemore. "I had no idea how much of a rarity and on some levels, a trailblazer, I would be by doing this job, the stereotypes you have to overcome and the potshots people take at you simply because they think they can and are insecure within themselves. But through your work, people, at least the general public, eventually get over who's writing the story and move on to other issues, like 'Why did you write that?'"

"Boyfriends have to be quite understanding, which may be why the only ones I have live out of town," said Roquemore. "But, the man I am dating now, who lives in Texas, is a former college athlete, himself. He's very supportive of my career and understands exactly what I have to go through."

"I can never get away from it all; I never go out of town without my laptop," said Roquemore. "But just getting out of town is my elixir. I can be Bobbi Roquemore, the sister, friend, cousin, girlfriend -- not like my mode in Milwaukee, when I feel like 'the sports journalist.'"

Roquemore: "Readers, even when they disagree, often compliment me on how well-written and well-researched my stories are. I don't just shoot from the hip. I support whatever I'm writing with facts, numbers, quotes, situations, scenarios."



http://onmilwaukee.com/sports/articles/womeninsportsmedia.html?page=1

kate did not last too long

mathman wrote:Don't know how many cities they are doing this in. Anyone else seen them?

Haven't come out this far at least from what I've seen.

that's great raplh wrote:kate did not last too long

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Insane_Pony_Posse wrote:is this her?

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http://onmilwaukee.com/sports/articles/womeninsportsmedia.html?page=1

No, I think that's Charlie Villanueva.

that's great raplh wrote:kate did not last too long

None of our beat writers last very long.