BOURCIER: Rooting for the Good Story

INDIANAPOLIS – There is no cheering in the press box, some old sportswriter decreed, and the phrase went into the language. Of course, it was dubious from the start.

Certainly, no one holding media credentials to a sporting event ought to cheer out loud; it’s just bad form. But anytime you carry a notepad into a press box — or a pit area, or a race shop — you find yourself rooting for the good story.