When It Comes to Bengals Coverage, CNati is Givin’ The Enquirer a Run for its Money.

Not sure if yous guys are paying close attention to the sports coverage game here in Cincinnati, but a few months back, a new player showed up: CNati.  It’s hard to get a read on their baseball coverage (the website started right @ the end of the season), but their football  stories are matching up with The Enquirer’s blow-for-blow.

A while back, Cincinnati lost The Post, which was hands down my favorite newspaper.  Along with that, the future of its younger, hipper beat writers, C. Trent Rosecrans, bounced around for a little while, most notably at 1530 Homer.  When Clear Channel laid him off back in April, I was a bit scared that Cincinnati eventually would be missing out on him altogether.  And then he started CNati, which pleases me to no end.

For a few reasons.

First, I should admit that I’m sort of ridiculous when it comes to reading, viewing, and listening to things.  What I mean by that specifically is that if I read a story that interests me, I’ll go back and look up as many different stories as I can about that particular thing.  I don’t know if it’s that I want to get a different angle, or that I just want to experience that first instance of interest all over again.  But having CNati around lets me try to approximate that with one more website than I otherwise would have.

But that might be trivializing the matter somewhat.

CNati is giving The Enquirer a run for its money because, you guessed it, the writing’s good, the angles are good, and they know what they’re doing.  It doesn’t hurt that Cincinnati might be one of the first cities in the country to have a website like this: one that only covers its city’s sports, from the professional level on down through high school (they seem to be working on that right now), and does just that with real journalistic experience.  You know, like a newspaper or something.

I suppose that, if you’re looking for an end point or whatever, if you fancy yourself the type who’s on top of shit in any way, you should be reading CNati–the chances are pretty good that they’re going to get you that extra bit of information that you didn’t know you wanted.  From time to time, you’re going to get the information faster than the other media sources around town, too.  To top it off, you’re going to get it from a guy who’s way hipper than you (and me).  Take that how you wish.

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