All in on high school sports

There’s no shortage of reasons why Chris Carr loves high school sports — the community, the joy and the camaraderie, among them.

For 25 years, he’s worked at The Minnesota Star Tribune, mostly in the sports department, and now he’s helping lead the way for the paper’s latest endeavor: Strib Varsity, a high school sports desk that not only writes stories but tracks stats and scores and broadcasts live streams for hundreds of schools around the Land of 10,000 Lakes.

“We know that high school sports in some towns — big, small, medium — is a center of gravity on some nights in many ways,” said Carr, the Star Tribune’s director of high school sports.

It’s an investment of massive proportions, particularly considering that The Washington Post just laid off over 300 journalists, including much of its sports staff. Glen Taylor, the Star Tribune’s billionaire owner, is taking things in the opposite direction. Strib Varsity currently covers 32 sports, 13 of which include comprehensive stats and scores for teams and players.

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