Welcome to the Sportswatch Team Blog. We’ll be posting comments, opinions and stories here that we hope you find interesting about local sports, our sports coverage and the athletes and people associated with sports in our area. We hope to answer questions and let you know some behind-the-scenes issues in local sports, both good and bad. I’ll begin with one of the most asked questions in my tenure here at WSEE.
“How do you determine what games to cover ??”

It’s pretty simple…..stories and game hilites that are of most interest to our viewers take priority. But there is more to it. A lot of it depends on how many photogs are available to shoot these games. Apparently, some fans believe we have an endless number of people to shoot games, which of course, is not the case. We must pick and choose those games that are of most interest and try to get hilites. Where the games are played is another factor. For example, do we send one photog a hour out of town to get one game, or keep the photog around here to get two or three games. Decisions that are made on a daily and weekly basis. Sure, it would be great to get all the games on a Friday night but I think we do a pretty good job of getting to as many as possible, and that’s what makes my job enjoyable.

We’ll be posting other comments and opinions in the future, but at least to begin our journey on this blog, a little insight into game coverage and what goes into making those decisions.