The SandPaper in 2015 had four – count ’em, four – reporters regularly covering sports, as well as municipalities and politics, environmental issues and crime and arts and entertainment, while chipping in with the occasional feature. That’s not even counting the two who specialized in fishing and surfing, or others who did a sports story or two over the course of the year.

A couple of decades ago there would typically be one – repeat, one – reporter who was responsible for the entire sports…