Why report the same news on three or four ESPN channels?
It’s bad enough the majors won’t give a mid-major a home game, but ESPN used to champion the little guy and now it all but ignores them! — Mike O’Reilly, Albany, N.Y. VITALE: I know the mid-majors get a lot of respect from me. People in the Mid-American always thank me for the publicity I give them. When you are a mid-major, obviously you don’t get as much ink and exposure as some of the other bigger, well-known leagues. That’s a reason that the big schools like Duke, North Carolina, Kansas and Kentucky are wanted for TV games. Anyone who knows the game realizes we give recognition to the mid-major schools. Q: I’m an avid reader of books on sports … which books do you feel are the best on the game of college basketball? — Steve Gillaspie VITALE: There have been so many books. John Feinstein has been an outstanding writer. There are so many books out there on the different coaches and players, the history of the game, techniques of playing. Hey, you might want to go out there and pi
