A concept that is often discussed in our culture today is the amount of power and influence that the media has, particularly in the realm of politics. Well I would argue that their degree of power and influence extends to the realm of sports as well.
There was a piece I wanted to write over a year ago when the VCU Rams defeated my beloved Kansas Jayhawks in the 2011 NCAA March Madness tournament, as part of their dream journey to the Final Four. I was going to focus on how the media was the team that beat the Jayhawks, not the Rams. I'm not trying to minimize the enormous accomplishment of VCU, but the fact of the matter is that if that game was played in a closed gym, with no fans, no cameras, and no reporters, the Jayhawks would have squashed their competition.
Too bad for Kansas, that's not how sports work these days.
