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Was it unethical for the Hartford Courant to hire Geno Auriemma’s daughter?

This week the Hartford Courant women’s basketball reporter John Altavilla announced that the newspaper had hired the daughter of University of Connecticut women’s basketball coach Geno Auriemma to blog about the team. Altavilla and Alysa Auriemma have a pre-existing blogging relationship. This summer they traded questions with each other via Altavilla’s work blog and her personal blogger.com account.

Alysa, 23, began her blog “Life Beyond the Postseason” this past March with a chronicle of UConn’s postseason run and subsequent championship. Her posts provided an insightful and often comical behind-the-scenes look at the lives of UConn players, staff and her family. Readers loved her commentary and writing style. Altavilla took notice and in mid-July they began their back-and-forth Q&A’s on their blogs.

• got a feeling it’s gonna be a good good night (Life Beyond the Postseason, July 15, 2009)
• Alysa Auriemma answers the REALLY tough questions (John Altavilla’s blog, July

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Two more to go and then come Saturday, it’s on!

Tonight marks the end of the WNBA preseason with two games scheduled, both at 8 p.m. EDT.

The Indiana Fever visit the San Antonio Silver Stars. Well, not really since the game will actually be in Austin. That should be a treat for the players and coaching staff not to mention the residents of Austin who don’t have to deal with heinous I-35 traffic in driving to San Antonio to catch a game. I love my ATX but it seems that such a progressive and intellectual town could come up with some solutions to its traffic mess. OK, don’t get me started on transportation issues in the capital of Texas.

Hopefully for fans the live scoreboards on wnba.com and yahoo.com will be working for this off-site game especially since Austin is such a wired city. For every other off-site preseason game so far fans have…