To the editor:

The Kansas University softball team opened its 2015 home schedule in its new Arrocha Ballpark home in Rock Chalk Park on Friday, March 13 without any notice or fanfare of the significant occasion from Journal-World sportswriters. The 25-2 KU softball team deserves more and better sports-page attention than the three sentences printed about their 5-0 win over Northern Colorado (March 14, “Pille propels KU softball”); or the four sentences each that were published about the wins over Idaho State (10-2) and Nebraska-Omaha (5-4) (“KU softball tops Idaho State,” March 15 and “Stein Sparks Kansas softball,” March 16); and the five sentences written about their 5-4 Indiana State win (“KU softball rallies,” March 17).

None of the softball articles were assigned to a J-W sportswriter, but were credited to J-W staff. Accompanying the third-page March 17 article was a small color photograph of a KU softball player in action during the game, which was an improvement over the previous articles.

The remarkable KU softball team achievements in their new ballpark deserves better space in the sports section. Devoting 3-4 feature pages to KU men’s basketball, primarily because that sport draws larger crowds, and those articles being covered by three to four J-W sportswriters, compared to assigning a pittance of attention to the success of other sports being played on KU’s home campus, is unconscionable and unscrupulous. The judgement and bias of the J-W sports section editor is evident.