This week many of the sports teams started their seasons, as is evidenced by the eleven pages of sports we are running this week.

In recent years, the sports section has grown so quickly that we have had to work out a way to divvy up the available space in a fair manner.

As we have in the past couple of seasons, we ask those submitting material for the sports sections to follow the following guidelines:

Guidelines For Submitting

Sports Material

+ Photos take up a lot of room, so we are asking coaches to help share the space. Please limit the number of photos sent each week to five or six for ordinary games. For larger events, such as multi-game tournaments feel free to send additional photos if needed.

+ Please rotate which children are featured in photos, so that all the children have a chance to be seen.

+ All photos must have captions. We strongly prefer photos that have the names of the children in the captions.

+ Please write the captions separately (not on the backs of the photos), numbered to correspond to each photo. Please print or type all names.

+ Materials may be either sent to our offices at 821 Franklin Avenue or submitted by email to editor@gcnews.com . Please do not submit duplicate copies of the item! Please take note of the electronic submission guidelines for photos below.

+ Please submit all parts of the item together and at the same time. When part of an item is emailed and another part is delivered to our offices, they may not get printed together in the paper. Similarly, if more than one parent sends in photos of the same game, it becomes cumbersome for us to remember which items go together.

+ Electronic submission guidelines for photos: Photos should be sent as .jpg or .tif files, and should be separate attachments, not embedded within another document.

+ Digital photos should be about 175 dpi, and should be about six inches wide. While we do minor re-touching to color-balance photos, the better the original, the better it will come out in the paper.