Y ask Y: It's now 6:15 p.m. Pacific time, coming up on first-edition deadlines for some East Coast USA newspapers. Still no peep from AP on Meb's AR and the Kenyan running the fastest 10K ever on U.S. soil. To their credit, both Jill Geer at USATF and Steve Rider at Running USA wire have churned out press releases describing Meb's 40-second PR breakthrough. But I also got a private note (cc'd to Ryan Lamppa) from an official with the USATF Road Running Information Center that said, in part: "We were obviously anticipating a record and had a reporter and photographer on site but with such a late start didn't think that anyone would use a story on Friday night." Uhmm, bad call. Many West Coast papers can accommodate results from sports events that end after 10 p.m. Ever heard of Major League Baseball? And final editions at many papers aren't "put to bed" until midnight or later. So there was AMPLE time to get Meb's mark into many papers. And here's another thought to ponder: If the wire services don't move a story in the first few hours after an event, they'll shine it completely. Such appears to be the case with AP -- now that it's close to 20 hours since the historic Stanford 10K. But maybe we're blaming humans when we should be blaming horses. Here's what's keeping AP busy tonight: BC-RAC-Kentucky Derby, Advisory,0106 Editors: The following has moved on the Kentucky Derby: BC-RAC-Kentucky Derby. By Racing Writer Ed Schuyler Jr. BC-RAC-Jim Litke. By Jim Litke. BC-RAC-Derby-Runner-up. By Richard Rosenblatt. BC-RAC-Derby-Winning Connections. By Beth Harris. BC-RAC-Derby-Jockey. By Steve Bailey. BC-RAC-Derby Undercard. By Mark Chellgren. BC-RAC-Derby Notebook. By Chris Duncan. BC-RAC-Derby-Delay. BC-RAC-Derby Quotebox. BC-RAC-Kentucky Derby Chart. BC-RAC-Derby Fastest Times. BC-RAC-Kentucky Derby Winners. AP Sports Obviously, a sub-2 at Churchill Downs is a helluva lot more significant than a sub 27:10 at The Farm. Ken Stone http://www.masterstrack.com
