Got a call yesterday afternoon with this message "UMass hockey team in bus crash in New Hampshire."

One phone call later says "accident not serious."

Eventually it became the UMass women's hockey team, which in Amherst is a club team not a varisty one.

Finally the UMass-BOSTON women's hockey team meaning I spent an hour chasing my tail on a day off. Not the first time.

I'm glad everyone is all right.

By about 10 p.m. last night however Channel 22 was running promos for its 11 p.m. post-Golden Globes newscast billing the "huge accident on 93" that involved some UMass athletes." 

That's cheap sensationalism by any definition. Channel 22 is too good not to know by then that they weren't UMass Amherst athletes. Now I get it when an accident is involved, we should care about the welfare of everyone, but imagine someone comes up to you and says "Cousin injured." Well every injury that occurs is somebody's cousin, but I'm a lot more interested if it's my cousin.

Channel 22 has UMass-AMHERST sports fans in its viewership. The UMass-AMHERST hockey team played in New Hampshire this weekend. Some of the UMass-AMHERST hockey team is spending this intersession working with Big Brothers. I hate to think some kid stayed up late to watch the news worried that some hockey player he just met has hurt in a bus accident.

...0 seconds til I get off my high horse...