Editors shove sports down our throats

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More than 170 Rutgers University faculty members voted to show their growing resentment of money losing sports programs.

How many of The Record's readers really care about who wins the Super Bowl on Sunday -- 10% to 15%?


To the rest of us, it's just another annual drunken football celebration, and we plan to stay off the roads after the game ends.


But the editors love big sports events, if only because it allows them to print something positive after all those stories about perverted coaches who abuse young athletes or fan riots, such as the death of 74 at an Egyptian soccer match on Wednesday.


I couldn't even find a story about the Port Said tragedy in today's paper, but there's lots of stuff about the Super Bowl in several sections, as there was on Wednesday.


Football poster


Another Giants poster is promoted on Page 1 of the Woodland Park daily, the fourth in a "collectible series" that I'm sure is a big hit with gay staffers.


Still, Editor Martin Gottlieb, who is in his second week on the job, apparently can see the other side of sports glorification.


He should have run the full story of a Rutgers faculty protest over money losing sports programs on the front page, but at least he promoted it outside (A-1 and A-4).


The university's athletic department spent $28.7 million more than it generated in revenue in 2011, according to a report released Wednesday. What a shocking waste of money.


More about the Giants appears below the fold, where a photo shows some moron who makes license plates, even though he isn't in prison.


Death by auto


Is Gottlieb responsible for running one of the best sports-related stories I've seen in a long time on A-1 today?


It's next to the license-plate photo -- the heart-warming obituary of Dan Glover, a Bergenfield High athlete whose liver was given to Ed Mooney, Glover's former Little League baseball coach.


Glover was killed when his 13-year-old car struck the rear of a stopped tractor-trailer on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. (He might have survived if he was driving a newer car with multiple airbags.)


Two more local obituaries by the same reporter, Staff Writer Jay Levin, appear  on Page L-6 today.


Head Assignment Editor Deirdre Sykes directed reporters to cover two events in Hackensack for today's Local section, but there isn't any actual municipal news from the city.