Missing the Big Picture

After reading, "Do Big Pictures Miss the Big Picture" and looking in our newspaper design book, there are def. many aspects of The Telegraph's layout that aren't the standard. our book has three design goals, two of which are not taken into consideration for this article.
I agree with Jackson in that big articles need big pictures if they are available. And this picture and this article are very important to the people of Macon/Middle Ga. b/c their kids/neighbors/friends are heading to the world series. Thats a big deal. And this picture captures the teams excitement prefectly! But...I dont think they should have put the picture of the mothers/fans above the already large picture of the boys, also there shouldn't be another story, of Lindsely Lohan none the less, right next to the large picture. One of the rules from the design book is "avoid confusion with any other story parked beisde the photo."
Once you get past the main story of the little league team there are a bunch of little exerpts from other stories, its a little confusing.
I think the paper accomplished their goal in making this story the most eye catching, but it loses a little interest in the confusion below the article. In all of the examples Jackson gave in his critique he shows front pages with only ONE large photo and he is critical of it, I think if he had seen this one, he might have been driven mad. There are several pictures and six different stories all on the front page. Yes, all six may be important but if their goal was to showcase the little leaguers so much, then the number of pictures and articles should have been limited.