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Local Sports Coverage Has a Data Problem

April 2, 2026

Remember the Sunday morning sports section of the local newspaper?

I do—and I loved reading it.

The front-page images and accompanying stories were awesome. I remember the numerous pro box scores and the up-to-date high school passing, scoring, and strikeout leaders.

Gone are the days of the local newspaper—a central place where sports writers could inform the public on a daily, if not weekly, basis about which high school teams were performing and which ones weren’t. League standings were consistently produced, and top individual performances were logged. Each week, you knew which athletes and teams meant business.

Fast forward 29 years—what do we have?

We have countless social media accounts and their affiliated websites. We have yesterday’s scaled-down newspaper Facebook page and school district athletic department Instagram pages. We have a plethora of high school team and individual student-athlete X accounts—and fortunately for me, Crozier Media—just one of many small, independent social media sports platforms.

Today, we get immediate Instagram game-day scores, student-produced images and videos, and highlight reels from national social media accounts. We get it all—and we get it fast.

But I have a question.

Has all of this content—from its speed to the many different angles—improved the way we consume and report on local sports?

I don’t think it has.

While there are definitely pros to the way local sports are currently covered, the lack of a consistent and timely dataset presented to the public—a true measuring stick—makes it incredibly challenging to know who’s who and who’s not in local sports.

Not all is lost. The Philadelphia Catholic League’s boys’ basketball stat collection initiative is a good first step. I used this information, available on their website, on a weekly basis during my coverage of the 2025–2026 season.

While I like to think I do a decent job providing a platform for student-athletes and covering aspects of local sports, I’m too small—as are many others—to cover every local contest.

Therefore, I think it’s important that, locally, a system is established for the collection, reporting, and distribution of individual sport performances during each contest. It would benefit all of us—especially student-athletes—for teams to report individual statistics to the PIAA or a designated organization for public distribution.

And if we want to truly elevate local sports coverage—it starts here.

Firebirds Add Rugby to the Nest This Fall

April 2, 2026

Rugby is coming to Bristol Pike.

Holy Ghost Prep, a private, all-boys Roman Catholic college preparatory school, is adding the sport this fall. Rugby sevens, as it’s called, is a variant of rugby union in which teams are made up of seven players who compete in seven-minute halves, instead of the traditional 15 players playing 40-minute halves.

The Firebirds will join 19 other school related rugby programs in the state (13 boys, 6 girls). Competition takes place in a tournament format, typically consisting of four matches. High school teams can expect to compete in five to six tournaments during the regular season.

Conestoga High School was the first high school program in Pennsylvania. It is also the oldest continuously operating high school rugby program in the United States, established in 1971 by teacher and coach Clarence Culpepper.

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