The internet drastically changed how high school sports are covered. Gone is the waiting that most of us had had to do in order to get the scores from Friday night. Television began showing highlights and would post a few of the scores on the late night newscasts, but if you blinked you might have missed which team did what. The newspaper offered the sure way to get the score of a cross town program, but that typically could not be read until Saturday morning.
The internet changed all of that a decade ago when local papers posted the stories that night to their websites. While still a popular form to check the scores, social media has become the latest way to find out instantly how teams are doing across Sacramento.
In this Week’s Friday Football Frenzy, Rob McAllister explores how Twitter is becoming the sports ticker of a modern era.
