Globe Cuts Entries & Results
As of today, the Boston Globe will no longer publish entries and results for area dog and harness tracks or entries and results for New York thoroughbred tracks. “The Globe sports section has to evolve along with the changes that have taken place in sports,” writes sports editor Joe Sullivan in explanation of the decision. The paper does intend to print entries and results for Suffolk Downs when it reopens in the spring, and apparently will run “a Sunday box on feature races” throughout the year. Well, I guess that’s better than nothing.
Elsewhere in the paper: The Globe reprints, in its entirety and unchanged, a downer of an article about slots and the future of Suffolk Downs that was originally published on November 10. You’d think an editor would have at least updated the text about the “upcoming” end of the legislative session, which closed on November 18 without passing the slots-simulcasting bill discussed in the piece.
Moving in the opposite direction: The Boston Herald, which announced that it’s expanding its racing entries and results to include Calder.
