The Prep Beat

According to research by something called The Pew Internet and American Life Project, nearly 9 percent of those who surf the Internet have a blog.
Doing the math, the good folks sitting on The Pew estimate that there are nearly 28 million blogs out there (most are the kind that can be found on sites like myspace.com).
You can probably see where this is going. The Prep Beat will make it 28,000,001…

According to research by something called The Pew Internet and American Life Project, nearly 9 percent of those who surf the Internet have a blog.
Doing the math, the good folks sitting on The Pew estimate that there are nearly 28 million blogs out there (most are the kind that can be found on sites like myspace.com).
You can probably see where this is going. The Prep Beat will make it 28,000,001 with a blog you can find at pugetsoundblogs.com/preps. You can also access it through kitsapsun.com.
And I promise you that, unlike the millions of self-absorbed, vapid blogs out there, that you won’t have to read about me. (My own family wouldn’t read a blog about me, so I know you wouldn’t either.)
What you will get is a supplement of sorts to the high school coverage you read in the paper (along with occasional commentaries). Our space in newsprint is finite (and getting more finite all the time); my space in the blogosphere is not.
You want an example of what you’ll find on the blog? No problem.
Earlier this spring season, I was talking to South Kitsap soccer coach Eric Bergeson. His team, always a contender to win a league title, was plagued by missing players in the early going.
One of those players was Dan Nelson, a speedster who played on the Wolves’ basketball team that finished third in state. That deep run made it impossible for Nelson to practice with the soccer team for the first two weeks of the spring season. By the time Nelson showed up, the Wolves were already starting to play their first games.
State rules say that a player needs 10 practices before he can play in a game, and Nelson started fulfilling that requirement.
Bergeson has a tradition that if his team wins both its games in a week, they don’t have to practice on Friday. And during the first full week of spring play, the Wolves won those two games.
Bergeson did a little math and realized that if his team practiced on Friday, Nelson would become eligible in time to play a game earlier than he otherwise would have.
Bergeson didn’t feel he could force his team to practice, so he left it up to them. Sure enough, the Wolves practiced that Friday, and Nelson played a little earlier.
It’s a nice story that speaks well of the Wolves’ chemistry this year, but we simply didn’t have a spot for it.
Now we do.

This entry was posted on Thursday, April 13th, 2006 at 5:47 pm by nathan joyce and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.