I got my first comment on my blog, which proves at least one person is reading it. So, I’ll be writing more.

Right now we’re covering a lot of Routt football — actually, a lot of football in general. Routt is widely regarded as the best team in the area, so there’s a lot of interest in the team.

That’s generally how we decide what to cover. There’s something to be said for hitting every school and every sport each season. I would love to be able to do that. But when resources are limited, we have to cover what we think most people will be interested in.

We pick football games based on how close we think the game will be; there’s nothing quite so boring to write about or to read about as a blowout. Sometimes, of course, we’re wrong. We also try to cover games that involve more than one local team simply because twice as many readers will be interested in the game.

One exception was New Berlin a couple of weeks ago. The Pretzels don’t play anybody we cover, but they’ve got a good team this year, and they’re off to a good start — again, good start = interest.

Another exception is the Alton Telegraph. That newspaper is owned by the same chain we are, so we share stories. When they cover games involving our local teams, we will publish the story — even games we probably wouldn’t have covered ourselves. Last week we were planning to cover Bunker Hill vs. Greenfield (two undefeated teams, at the time), but Alton volunteered to cover it, so that freed up one of our reporters to go to a different game.

Jacksonville always gets covered because it’s Jacksonville. About half our readership is in Jacksonville, so more people want to know about what happens to the Crimsons than almost any other team we cover — win or lose.

We are having a blast taking video of football and volleyball games (visit myjournalcouriervarsity.com). Right now, we’re sticking close to home for our videos because we have to lay out pages and take calls in addition to going out and shooting the games. If we were to drive down to Carrollton, there would be one less person in the office to take calls at the busiest time of night.

More later.