Southern Lab gets no respect

Calvary's opponent in Week No. 2 of the 2007 football season gets no respect from the media and that's a shame.

Being a "wannabe" sports writer, I began looking for information on the Kittens' big 53-0 win over Grambling in Week No. 1 of the season. It's always good to know what you are going up against and it helps bring interest, and hopefully readers to my other site, when I can tell them something about the teams we will be facing.

However, look hard as I may, I could not find one line of credit toward the Southern Lab win over Grambling in the Ruston newspaper, the Monroe newspaper or the Baton Rouge Advocate. That's a shame! A team with such tradition as Southern Lab deserves more. Numerous websites mentioned how college coaches almost camped out at the Baton Rouge school drooling over their athletes in hopes of recruiting them for their own teams one day.

Surely, the No. 2-ranked team in the state 1-A classification would get some ink after making back-to-back trips to North Louisiana to take on another team in Calvary. Same song, second verse--no media coverage--at least in the early edition of The Times, and none whatsoever in the Baton Rouge Advocate.

Granted, it is impossible to cover every team in depth for every week of the season, but give Southern Lab a break; or better yet, give them some ink in the paper.