The DP has the same issue the teams have---they rely on freshmen and sophs to write the articles and aside from the fact that almost no one who joins the DP anymore cares about sports (they only write for sports to get bylines), no one writing has actually seen any games in 2 years, which means ever.

When my daughter was writing for the DP (2011-13), there were still a few who cared. No more. It's not curiously incurious---it's just no one cares.