You say it’s your birthday …
June 12th, 2008, 4:49 pm · Post a Comment · posted by Dan Zeiger
This little corner of cyberspace was born on June 13, 2007, the result of Arizona State’s impeding appearance in the College World Series. It has been a year of fun and, on many occasions, frivolity.
We tracked the ever-changing hairstyles of football player Rudy Burgess. We were there when men’s basketball coach Herb Sendek got in touch with his inner cool dude. We ranked the Pac-10 football stadiums, in a list that was lambasted here and on the Web sites it was linked to.
We gave a eulogy for a squirrel during Camp Tontozona. We made a case for vintage football uniforms to honor the 50th birthday of Sun Devil Stadium. We marveled at the quickly-changing Pac-10 men’s basketball landscape. We joined in the ridicule choir after Arizona’s football coach opened his mouth and inserted his foot on signing day.
And we paid homage to a dear, departed friend.
It has all added up to a what, on many weeks, ranks as the second-most visited blog on the Tribune’s Web site, behind Cop Shop. There is no way Mark Heller and I could have made this happen by ourselves.
Thanks to the ASU athletes and coaches whose exploits are so, uh, bloggable.
Thanks to these guys for inspiring the name:
And most of all, thanks, dear readers, to you.
In the very first entry on this blog, I wrote: “In the two years that I’ve been on the ASU beat, I’ve found that no fans, with the possible exception of hardcore baseball seamheads, soak up information as eagerly as college sports followers. I’d be privileged if the blog became part of your daily ASU sports reading routine.”
A year later, the sentiments are the same.
