Gainesville, Texas, approximately 17,000, is the county seat of Cooke County, approximately 45,000.
The paper is CHNI. Nuff ced?
Current editorial staff is an in-house staff writer, and a regional editor, with originally a sports background, running three CNHI papers. Weatherford is about 75 miles away, generally southwest. Cleburne is about 45 miles southeast of it. Weatherford has gotten so bad that a weekly halfway between it and Fort Worth started an online-only competitor. Nuff ced?
The only in-depth sports coverage the paper had in the entire 24-25 school year was of the football state championship game for Muenster, at the western edge of the county. Muenster has its own newspaper, let us note!
So far, this year the same, until the last two weeks, when some freelancer has reported on one game each week from two non-Muenster smaller schools.
But, Gainesville is nearly 40 percent of the county's population and you can't get anybody to cover Gainesville high school sports?
OK.
That may also say something about Gainesville sports fandom, I'll admit.
