About My Sports Blog
Jacoby Ellsbury has come into his own anchoring the Red Sox lineup.
This is a sports blog that I started during my senior year of high school. My love of baseball and basketball drew me to create this blog. I am an aspiring journalist who will use this blog to cover my favorite baseball team, the Boston Red Sox, as well as all other top stories in the world of sports. Enjoy!
**UPDATE: I have written continuously about the Portland Trail Blazers, but will no longer be covering the team on this site. I will instead be writing about Portland four times per week on Fan Huddle, a site that will be starting this fall. I will have more information, including a link to my site on Fan Huddle, when it becomes available. **
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About My Sports Blog
Jacoby Ellsbury has come into his own anchoring the Red Sox lineup.
This is a sports blog that I started during my senior year of high school. My love of baseball and basketball drew me to create this blog. I am an aspiring journalist who will use this blog to cover my favorite baseball team, the Boston Red Sox, as well as all other top stories in the world of sports. Enjoy!
**UPDATE: I have written continuously about the Portland Trail Blazers, but will no longer be covering the team on this site. I will instead be writing about Portland four times per week on Fan Huddle, a site that will be starting this fall. I will have more information, including a link to my site on Fan Huddle, when it becomes available. **
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Hey Nick, this is a great Weblog for us sport illiterates to come to and browse for info. … I love it!!! Now when I get together with my die-hard sport friends I can actually participate in conversations and sound like I’m smart. Wow, I’ve learned soooo much, and to think that I thought Santana was just a awsome guitar player….just kidding!
Yeah!
Hey Nick. Great Website. Love it. Love Sports. Love you.
XLNt
First visit to site this morning. Really nice work; probably needless to say “Keep blogging”, but just in case…
DirecTV really let me down this “way early” AM insofar as I was up, caffeinated, prepped and pumped to watch Opening Day (my 42nd, give or take) a lot earlier in given year than normal as my (our) beloved Sox were center stage in a faraway land. Yesterday, I’d even called the satellite dish company with whom I had a 1-year relationship and their MLB Extra Innings package because my TV basically hibernates from last out of World Series until Easter. Apparently, if the service goes unused for 30 (60?) days, the subscriber needs to request a “reset”. I don’t have to re-up my MLB over the phone because they assume I want it for another year unless I request otherwise. Shrewd and savvy. Well, I’m pretty pleased as I went to bed last night to get a couple hours REM because the service tech had talked me through zeroing in on ESPN2 after the rigamarole of the aforementioned “reset” in the afternoon. The 2:36 AM blank screen (except for the initial band at the top which ID’s that Baseball Tonight goes until 3 there on “II’ ) doesn’t sit well with me nor does the 4:33 posting of a “We Realize There Is No Transmission Here” placard with DirecTV’s logo in corner. It’s not as if I can pre-dawn traipse down to my neighborhood sports tavern and catch the game because the tube is on the fritz again. It’s now 7:52 as I write this, our Beantowners are 1-0 (93 more should clinch East again in my estimation) with late inning Brandon Moss heroics, but I saw none of it. Once I sign off with this soapbox screed of my own, I’m calling the dish people to voice a little frustration. WIll I get some compensation for missing the ONE THING I watch off their broadcast-beam??? Thanks for listening, but what I’d really like is your blog take on what fans are supposed to do in securing a little more personal service from these pay-per-view services.
OK, I feel vented. Thanks!
BTO
pretty decent blog here. you might wanna report with less of a Red Sox bias, but whatever.
Hi there.
I saw your posts on wordpress.
We are launching a sports social network and we are looking to have great bloggers like yourself part of our new community. please let me know if you are interested. we can workout an agreement.
Best Regards.
mxa4250@yahoo.com
Nick,
Your Aunt Kim gave me your blog address and I’ve been on a few times. Great stuff!!
wow good read………..but where is the cooking/gardening section?
Wow, tough time to be a Sox fan. Not this year I’m afraid.
Thanks for doing this. I’ll check back when basketball starts for real.
We would be absolutely thrilled to exchange blogroll links with your site.
Right Fielders is part of a related network of sites that does 200,000
daily pageviews with an Alexa rating that hovers around .02. Four of
these sites are Google News providers. We would love to build a
relationship with your site including the blogroll exchange, but also
within the body of posts. We like to link our friends often!
Please let me know what you think?
Erika
Contributor
Right Fielders and Related Sites
Yes, Erika, I would be obliged to do so. Thanks for the comment, I am flattered that you would not only want to exchange blogrolls, but include me further on your site.
Thanks again
Hi,
I visited your sports blog Swamigp’s Weblog at http://swamigp.wordpress.com/. You have really great articles and I’m glad I found your site.
I would like to know if you’re accepting guest blog posts, I’d like to send you an original blog entry on basketball which I think would fit nicely with your site. I’m doing this for free but would only require 1 backlink in the article to my site.
Please let me know if you’re interested in publishing this basketball blog entry so I can send it to you for publication soon.
Thank you
Shirly Giagone
Hey buddy,
I saw you at the showers in the dorms today. You’ve been treating yourself well. Keep it up, honey bunch.
Bo, not looking bad yourself.
Nick it’s you’re favorite cousin Pete! Sweet website, I am utterly impressed. Keep it up. By the way, happy early birthday!
Uh, Swami, I, somehow managed to miss the entire college basketball season so far, but having just read your blog, I feel like I’m ready for the madness! And, you know how mad I am for sports… Great blogging. You’re a writer. By the way, the comment about being less sox biased. You might want to consider that. Less sox, more, you know, briefs…
briefs, eh? I’ll think about it. Glad you’re ready, because I sure am!
Would love to have your articles posting at bleacherreport.com. With our blog import tool your articles would auto-import to your b/r profile and link back to your blog giving your work exposure to our established online community.
I have no doubt that your sports coverage would get a ton of reads with us. Please email me mtcheyan@bleacherreport.com so I can tell you more about our site and get you set up.
Thanks,
Max
Hi,
I have a couple of questions about your blog:
1) Is it OK with you if I spread some link love and link to your blog? I think my visitors would like your blog.
2) I noticed on your blog that you link to other blogs… do you think its possible for you to link to my blog myairshoes.com?
Please let me know what you think. Thanks for your time.
Arleen
Yes, Arleen, I would love for you to add my blog to your site.
Sure, I’ll add your site to my blogroll.
I am glad you enjoy my site!
Good morning,
My name is Richie Denis, I’m the director of business development at MVN.com.
I found your blog in a baltimore orioles google search. I was wondering if perhaps you’d be interesting in establishing your blog at MVN.
We’d love to have a blog of your quality on the Most Valuable Network where we enjoy 40,000 page views daily.
There are a few different options
Please let me know if you’re interested. As I said before we’d love to have you aboard! I can get you up and blogging right away.
http://www.mvn.com/mlb/redsox
Thanks for the offer, Richie, I am flattered. If you could give me more information that would be great.
Do you have an e-mail address I can reach you at?
I’d prefer not to leave a public comment with the options, if possible?
I will email you.