Fran Blinebury

Houston sports journalism is similar to Houston journalism more broadly: depressingly poor.

That said, you would think that the Chron's sportswriters would at least keep track of which teams are in major college football conferences, especially if you're gonna put out a college football preview.

You would think that if you aren't familiar with our Chron, that is.

Charles Kuffner catches Fran "I'm Not Drunk Ossifer!" Blinebury making a pretty big blunder in the Chron's college football preview section: Blinebury predicts BYU will win the WAC this year. The problem? As Kuffner points out, BYU hasn't been in the WAC since 1999.

Good one, Fran.

At least the Chron occasionally reprints Randy Galloway's Fort Worth Star-Telegram columns.

[Posted at 22:08 CST on 08/29/02] [Link]