Best wishes to Tom Borrelli
On Saturday, I got the shocking call that my colleague and friend Tom Borrelli had an accident at All High Stadium.
He spent the first part of his Saturday shift at All High to get some details and grab a few quotes to help our coverage in the paper and on this blog.
Tom is a pro. He was the first member of the media to be inducted into the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame, and the league also named its writing award after him, because of his passionate coverage of the sport.
He is passionate about high school sports as well.
So on Saturday afternoon he went to All High -- to make sure a story got told, that competitors were recognized, that statistics were recorded.
As The News has forged ahead in this relatively new Web world, Tom has consistently, as always, been a pro. Given the additional outlet to cover things, he's made the most of it (not only here, but Fantasy Fix and Sports, Ink).
That might have meant saving some notes and quotes from a phone call he had with a coach from our office, or stopping by a high school game to start his work shift. While we might have only been able to fit a few paragraphs in the paper on a particular game, there would be 10, or 15, or 20 paragraphs on the Web. Friday night he posted items about wins by St. Francis and Burgard.
On Saturday he was trying to do right by his job, this paper and the high school sports it covers.
Get well soon, Tom.
Feel free to wish him the same in the comments section below.
---Keith McShea
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Tom Borrelli was injured on the job Saturday when he fell from a stairway leading to the press box at All High Stadium.
Tom is a sports reporter and a copy editor at The Buffalo News. He covers the Buffalo Bandits lacrosse team, writes a fantasy sports column for Football Friday and jumps in whenever a good local story needs reporting. He was working on college basketball previews (look for his capsule on UB's team in Tuesday's News) and was at All High to cover the Harvard Cup game Saturday when he was injured.
This is being posted on the Fantasy Fix, Sports, Ink and Prep Talk blogs because Tom loves all sports.
Click on the comments section below to wish him a speedy recovery.
---Steve Jones, Sports Editor
