The Daily News finally ran the Genesee Region League football all-stars today, and the only way to describe this piece is disappointing.
For the past few years there has been a cool graphic that was a football field with headshots of each player and then a story about the all-stars. This year, the paper went back to the boring team photo that looks bad because the players are wearing jeans with their jersey and the faces are so small you can barely see them.
For the life of me, I can't figure out why they would go back to this extremely unattractive photo when the cool graphic must still be in the system.
The writeups are fine with all the players statistics and plans for college next year if they are a senior. But, it is the same thing that is done for every other all-star squad.
If you are interested in seeing an all-star story with action photos from the season, check out the one that ran on The Batavian back on Oct. 21.
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The highlight of Friday's edition is the photo on page B-4 by Nick Serrata that goes along with the story by Alanna Stage covering the Elba Tournament at Genesee Community College.
Elba's Missy Call and Attica's Rachel Kohlhagen are fighting for a loose ball, which Call ends up knocking out of play, right in the direction of Serrata. He captured the moment perfectly.
Serrata's basketball photography has been fantastic so far this season and is a nice compliment to Mark Gutman's work. The Daily has excellent sports photography.
You can check out Serrata's excellent photo by picking up a copy of the Daily News at your local newsstand. Or, better yet, you can subscribe at BataviaNews.com.
