Sparks Not Getting Laker-Like Attention

What is up with your reporting? When the Sparks are in the middle of an 18-game winning streak they get a reference on the front page to a short article on the back page. When the streak comes to an end, you print the news on the front page with a photo and an article that is practically a slam.

Their achievements have been record making. And instead of elevating your reporting of the success, you denigrate them after a loss. Please remember that this is as tough a sport as played by the Lakers.

Emily R. Crane

Glendale

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One of the answers to Bill Plaschke’s column on the Sparks last week was very visible in Sunday’s sports section. The Dodgers lose and are on the front page. The Angels “are slowed” and are on the front page. Other front-page sports stories are Monica Seles not doing too well, USC players taking pills, and physical limitations of high school players.

The Sparks win again, have a record-setting season, a winning streak of 18 games and are on Page 3. I guess it’s better than being on Page 10, as DeLisha Milton rightly complained about.

Unless and until the L.A. Times treats the Sparks as a serious team, and Jerry Buss does some major promotion of the Sparks, “the girls” will be seen as just that, inconsequential in the Los Angeles scheme of things.

Peg Yorkin

Los Angeles