Squeeze play

A memo regarding immediate cuts in the LA Times sports section is making the rounds today. I saw a note about it this morning on LA Observed which has been updated with some external links (neither of which I can get to right now).

The memo from Bill Dwyre (I wish he'd write from time to time) has the highlights, a 14-page weekly reduction (20 pages per week if the hockey season happens) in coverage. Among the items people are most likely to howl about?

• The daily USC and UCLA notes are toast along with the daily Clipper and Laker notes (baseball is exempt until we all forget it used to be there).
• No more Sat and Sun sports listings on Friday (hard to argue here, that's all moving online, just don't look for it at the Times site).
• No more fish report.
• Reduce Saturday letters to two columns from three (I think that happened as of last Saturday).

There was no mention of staff cuts.