As a student with a vested interest in the newspaper which bears my college's name, I humbly suggest that the sports section of The Daily Collegian be omitted in order to prevent further embarrassment to me and, more importantly, you.

In perhaps the most appetizing month for all sports fans in recent memory, The Daily Collegian has fallen off the map of intelligible layout and article choice, neglecting ALL pertinent coverage in professional sports and men's college basketball. Case in point: In Monday's edition of The Daily Collegian, 13 different articles were written for the sports section -- all but one by Daily Collegian staff writers. That one article, "Lemieux returns to ice for charity," taken from the Associated Press wire, stood as the only story pertaining to any aspect of professional sports and it hardly pertained at that.

Not to undermine the importance of Penn State student-athlete endeavors, but on the day following perhaps the greatest comeback in professional sports history, not one paragraph was devoted solely to the return to basketball of Michael Jordan. The only mention of his monumental comeback was a quote from a 16-year-old boy who holds no credibility in the sporting world arena. In addition to the Jordan omission, there was absolutely zero coverage of men's college basketball smack in the middle of March Madness, the college equivalent to the Super Bowl.

Since August, the quality of the sports section of The Daily Collegian has steadily declined and now, in mid-March, I hold before me a paltry excuse for sporting news. Even the light-hearted daily columns which once graced the front page of the sports section has gradually faded into the pit where the entire Daily Collegian is headed. There is no excuse for this demise. The Daily Collegian is a recipient of the AP wire, using its fruits to furnish the entire Dateline page with its products. The same AP wire transmits hundreds of sports-related articles daily, including box scores, game summaries and on-location reporting. I find it hard to believe that the sports editors could not find one article on the Jordan return to basketball or the upsets of March Madness -- two of the most followed sports stories of the weekend -- to fit on any of the eight pages allotted to them.

The continued irresponsibility of The Daily Collegian's staff to report the pertinent stories appalls me and until the situation is remedied, The Daily Collegian has lost a faithful reader.