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Forbes loses NY Media softball championship game

Forbes magazine lost the championship game of the New York Media Softball League by a 5-2 score to High Times magazine on Saturday.

The game was played in New York’s Central Park.

High Times defended its championship. Forbes, after finishing first in the regular season with a 10-2 record, was seeking its first title. The two teams had split their two games during the regular season.

High Times defeated The Wall Street Journal by a score of 4-2 earlier Saturday during the semifinal game.

The Journal had won the league in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and then in 2015 and 2016.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.