No media love

Raymond Ayala / The USD Vista

As a University of San Diego supporter, I am sure all of you Torero faithful fans can relate to me on the following scenario. You return home from college and are applying for a summer job or eating at a restaurant with your parents and some of their friends. When the topic of college comes up, they ask you, “what college do you go to?” You respond, “University of San Diego.” They respond with a gleeful, “oh how do you like UC San Diego” or “how do you like San Diego State?”

Nothing could possibly make me angrier than people screwing up such a simple difference. So after the UNLV-USD basketball game this past weekend, I decided to check Yahoo Sports to see if they had written anything about the game. To my surprise, I was directed to a link that read, “UNLV beats UC San Diego.” I’m sorry, I thought UC San Diego was a Division II program, that USD plays to tune up for opponents like UNLV. For some reason, they continue to make this mistake by labeling the USD Toreros as UC San Diego. To make things even more frustrating, if you look up the game on that website, as of press time, the site still has the same UC San Diego title listed.

It’s only Yahoo who makes this mistake right? Wrong. I was watching the St. Mary’s versus Fresno State game last night on ESPN and the game featured some great highlights from a player all USD fans should despise for his potential to harm the Toreros season; Patty Mills. As I am watching Mills hit three pointer after three pointer, the 2007-2008 WCC regular season standings flashed across the screen. The logos next to the teams were correct, until I saw the logo they placed next to USD. Ladies and gentlemen, ESPN took our school name and matched it with a San Diego State Aztecs logo.

True, I may be looking too far into this, but USD should not tolerate the mistakes made by these media outlets. I, for one, would never ever want to be associated with SDSU when it comes to their school and basketball team. They are our on-court rivals, enemies and targets, whatever you want to call them. For a respected television station and website to confuse the Torero blue with Division II UC San Diego and the ugly black and red of San Diego State frustrates and upsets me. This type of disrespect should not go unnoticed, and it will not go unnoticed once people in the city of San Diego realize that the more talented basketball team resides on top of the hill in the Jenny Craig Pavilion.