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Is there a bigger joke than the Boston Globe? They’re owned by John Henry, so you can never count on them for any actual objective Boston Red Sox coverage. They’re also most likely run by a bunch of Boston College/BU/Northeastern morons who feel the need to justify their $200K student loans debt by only covering college basketball from crappy schools that don’t matter.

Last night the UMass Minutemen ended their non-conference play with a 73-65 win over Miami (OH). They are now 12-1 and have been nationally ranked for the last month. Kind of big news right? Wonder how the Globe covered it. Here is the cover of today’s Boston Globe sports section:

Ya got that? The 4-11 Boston College Eagles are front page news for losing yet another basketball game to a team that UMass beat. I really wish the Globe would stop trying to ram BC sports down my throat. They taste like cigarettes. Stop making BC try to happen. It’s NOT gonna happen. It’s been this way since I was a kid. I had no idea UMass even existed until they got good in the mid 90’s. But every time I turned on the TV there was some type of update on this mediocre team from Newton. The Globe wasn’t done though. Here’s the rest of the article:

Five freaking columns dedicated to a 4-11 basketball team. But hey, at least they threw UMass a bone by putting in their box score right? This is how I felt when I saw this:

Well they’re in the Top 25 coverage right? After all, they are in the Top 25, even with Kevin Gorman voting. Wait, they’re not even listed in that part? Sweet newspaper dude.

What about their online version, Boston.com? Here’s their college sports page today:

Nicely done Globe. So let me get this straight – the Glove believes that the following are more newsworthy stories than yet another win by the Commonwealth’s flagship university:

1) UConn (the Big East’s foster child that no one wanted so they became a ward of the state) losing to Southern Methodist

2) Notre Dame (a team that lost to North Dakota State this year and is in a different time zone) beating Duke (another team that is 1,000 miles away)

3) Unranked Vanderbilt beating Northeastern by 30 points

All of those are bigger stories according to the dingbats who run the Globe. The Herald, as usual has proven to be the superior source of news in the Boston region. At least Steve Buckley is talking about them:

Look, it’s pretty simple. If you cover it, they will come. The media dictates what we will all talk about at the bar. You know why the Boston Bruins have developed a bigger following in the last 3 years? It’s not just because they won a Cup, since they made the playoffs 29 freaking years in a row and the diehards from Quincy were still the only ones that wanted to talk NHL. Nope, it was because 98.5 started broadcasting the games and talking about it on Felger and Mazz and Toucher and Rich. That move right there single handedly got Glenn Ordway fired on EEI. Ever since then 93.7 has been talking Bruins a lot more.

But no one wants to talk about a team that no one is talking about. Hundreds of thousands of alumni live inside the 495 belt that the Globe treats like an electric fence used to keep out Genghis Khan and the Mongols. If you start talking about them on the radio and in the news you will have plenty of callers. Then more people will start watching them. That’s how the media works bros.

UMass has one beacon of hope in the mainstream media. A nemesis of me and my boy Larry’s from 98.5 – Marc “Beetle” Bertrand. He got into a Christmas tweet beef with Albert Breer of the NFL network a couple weeks back. Here’s the highlights:

I don’t always agree with Beetle, but he is 110% right on this one. First of all, Albert Breer needs to go back to being Bill Belichick’s whipping boy and leave basketball to the big boys. Gotta love Breer’s rationale that the Globe shouldn’t cover UMass because the school is in Amherst. Ah-HAH! Looks like we’ve found the real culprit in this lack of coverage: GEOGRAPHY!!!

Yes Albert, we know that Amherst is 90 miles from Boston and is a giant pain in the ass to get to. Does the Globe not have enough gas money or something? UMass is our home state’s team. You know who the media covers in Tennessee? It’s not Vanderbilt. You know which football the media covers in Philadelphia? It’s not Villanova or Temple. It’s Penn State. Good thing Bert Breer doesn’t work for the Philadelphia Inquirer. That’s like 150 miles to Happy Valley. Do you know how much that would cost in gas and tolls? Chill the f*** out UMass fans.

So some Worcester goons called Beetle out on Twitter for not using his platform to talk UMass during a week in which the Patriots were not playing. The tweet beef highlights are as follows:

So where is Beetle getting this data from? We are the minority? Poll 1,000 sports fans in Boston and ask them who they would rather see make the Final Four – UMass or BC? Wouldn’t even be close. What would people rather hear Felger and Mazz ramble on about – the intricacies of the NFL’s salary cap, or their 12-1 college basketball team? So no Beetle, we are not in the minority. You’re just too scared of your lackey bosses (who most likely are from BC and Northeastern) to take a stand and talk some UMass hoops.

Quite frankly I expected nothing less from the Globe. This is a newspaper that allowed Gish Jen to print an editorial the day after the Red Sox duck boat parade that blamed Bostonians for the fact that the Tsarnaev brothers blew up the Boston Marathon. But Beetle man, I expect more from you. Take a lap bros.

Either way, UMass will just keep winning when they start conference play against St. Joe’s this week. And when they’re a Top three seed in the NCAA tournament and your bosses all make you guys give the Minutemen some press, please don’t pretend like you actually give a shit.

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