RM athletes

The Salt Lake Tribune published a story today entitled "Burgess is back, but will game be there?" that promises to be "[t]he first of an occasional series examining athletes' return to college athletics after an LDS Church mission."

I always advocate journalists being as transparent as possible, but I'm not sure why Trib editors felt compelled to include that explanatory line. Perhaps they felt the story itself was not obviously newsworthy. Maybe it would be better to hold these types of stories to run together as a package or an immediate series, rather than an occasional one. Still, I found the story interesting because it represented a different approach to covering a common phenomenon among Utah college athletes in particular.