Coming to the end

Well... as we come to my last two weeks of internship at CSN,  I am definitely running out of things to post. My advisor is coming in today for her last visit.  I'm kinda sad that the end is coming.

Mary and myself have started the PhotoShop Friday tradition.  We have even started to illustrate other posts throughout the week.  Last week we returned to the Photoshop Friday roots and produced a few more pictures. The pictures have become very popular with the fans.  This past week week we created Christmas cards from the Red Sox, Bruins, Celtics, and Patriots.

I have gotten so comfortable her.  I'm so happy everyone welcomed me with open arms.  

All over CSN

Well, there is only a month left for me here as an intern at CSN.  Its kinda sad.  BUT!  Today has been a fun filled day in the newsroom.  Once we started "Photoshop Friday" last week, we had to keep it going this week.  So... we did, and I got my name on the web site!!  Here it is... MOVEMBER MANIA!

Also, I made my first ever television appearance!  Well... I was more like a prop...  but I was on TV.

A quick one...

So, Rajon Rondo absolutely posterized Chris Bosh during the game last night.  Mary Paoletti had a vision... "Chris Bosh looks like he is praying!"  After we were looking at hilarious photoshopping throughout the morning, we decided we should try.  So... we came up with THIS! It was her idea, I helped bring it to life. 

Running the Show... Part 2

As my readers know, the Randy Moss saga has plagued my internship from virtually the beginning.  Throughout my time here, Randy Gene has complained about his contract, got traded to Minnesota, returned to New England for a game, got released from the Vikings, then the final step (or so we think) of his 2010 journey occurred on the day Art could not come in.

Throughout the day, I had to deal with the Villanueva/Garnett fiasco (see part 1) then at 4:00 pm eastern time, we would find out where Randy Moss would land.  Is anyone familiar with the waiver system?  Basically, every team in the league got a chance to pick up the wayward wide-out, starting with the worst team in the league and moving its way up the ranks.

It was my responsibility to keep track of the waiver process to see where Moss lands.  It was very tense in the newsroom, because everyone wanted to see where he landed

It was a huge day for me, I handled heavier duty than I did all semester long.  There was a whole lot of pressure on my shoulders, I think I pulled it off. 

Running the Show... Part 1

It was a cold Wednesday morning.  I come into Comcast headquarters not knowing what a huge day it would be for me.  It was business as usual for me as I sit down and start searching for potential news stories.  My phone begins to vibrate out of control... it was Art.  Due to a personal matter he could not come in.  No biggie, I hold down the fort on Fridays with Mary all the time.  The thing is, it was Wednesday, I was the only person working the web site.  It had to be an eventful day...


So, I was searching for news stories when I see these tweets by Detroit Pistons forward Charlie Villanueva (Below).  On Tuesday night the Boston Celtics dismantled the Pistons.  Villanueva claims that Celtic Kevin Garnett said he looked like a 'cancer patient.'  For anyone who is not familiar with Villanueva, he has a disease called Alopecia universalis which causes him to not have any hair on his head. 

A backlash began after Villanueva revealed this on his Twitter page.  The backlash hurt both sides.  Garnett, one of the leagues biggest trash talkers, was accused of crossing the line.  He then released a statement about the incident.


“I am aware there was a major miscommunication regarding something I said on the court last night.  My comment to Charlie Villanueva was in fact ‘You are cancerous  to your team and our league.’  I would never be insensitive to the brave struggle that cancer patients endure.  I have lost loved ones to this deadly disease and have a family member currently undergoing treatment.  I would never say anything that distasteful.  The game of life is far bigger than the game of basketball.”

Because of the whole episode, I got to write this.  Trying to keep the fans up to date on the whole situation I created a short article and continue to develop the page every time more information came into the newsroom.

I'm still on the fence about who to believe in this whole situation.  I honestly don't believe that Garnett would develop an extremely eloquent sentence while on the court like, "I personally don't think you are a very good basketball player."  At the same time, Villanueva needs to keep what happens on the court on the court.  What happens between the lines is part of the game.  Trash talking is part of the game, and always will be.

This whole thing is just another reason why Twitter is a great, but dangerous tool.

This whole episode was a rapidly progressing throughout the day.  As more and more information began to pour in about the incident, so did comments from sports writers and bloggers from across the nation.  The criticism was mostly landing on Villanueva, who took the game away from the court.  Even Mary Paoletti could not support her fellow UConn alumni.

Nonetheless, it was my job for the afternoon to keep track of the saga.  Just remember kiddies, the internet is a powerful tool.  Whether it is something that you want to spread, or something you don't, you put it on the internet -- it will come back to haunt you.

That rounds out the first part of my day.  When I get a second, I will write about the second half of my day.  It was much more interesting... much more interesting.  Stay tuned.  

Haven't posted in a while...

Well, it has been a little while since I have posted.  I have been a busy young man.  As I was before, I am still comfortable here and am still loving every moment.  I mean, how can I not love chatting with sports experts all day?  A couple things of note have happened to me over the past couple of weeks.

Once again, my Photoshop knowledge has helped show my versatility to my co-workers.  The past couple Wicked Good Sports posts, Mary has learned that she can turn to me if she needs some help with creating anything in photoshop.  So, I helped he with two little things, like in her LeBron James post, and her Halloween Post.

Then, I made my first ever appearance (sorta) on CSN programming!  The new Web Zone set is in the middle of the news floor.  Putting it simply, the set gets in the way on a busy day.  So, some times people don't realize that they are taping and accidentally walk through the set.  One day, Sherrod Blakely was taping a segment as one of the PR people began to approach the set at a high rate of speed.  I tried to stop her, but she went right through with no problem.  I was then enlisted to play body guard for the rest of the take.  On this weeks "Unfiltered", the weekly blooper reel, the whole ordeal was caught on camera.  So, you can check it out.  (Its the one titled 'Unfiltered'  from October 25, 2010.  You might have to scroll down or go to the previous page depending on when you read this.)

Well, that's it for this post.  I can't believe how quickly these past couple months have gone by.  I only have a month and a half left.  I really don't want to leave.

Can You Smell It?

Well, I can smell college basketball in the air.  Art has been telling me for weeks that a tough task has been approaching.  So I was ready.  The tough task arrived on Thursday.  He apologized, as he has done a couple times before handing off tough tasks to me.

As college basketball approaches Art needs to know when many New England colleges play their games so we can easily keep track of them.  The task that was handed off to me to make a master list of all these schedules.  According to Art, this job took the previous intern a week and a half to finish.  I didn't cower in fear, I just got to work. 

Throughout the day I got in a considerable groove, I had more than half of the schedules done... so I asked Art if I was doing it correctly.  I was not only doing it correctly, he was thoroughly impressed by the pace I set over the first half.  Needless to say, I went back to work after checking in with him.

As the day began to come to a close, I finished the master schedule and sent it his way.  That's right readers, I finished what has been known as a weeks worth of work in about 6 hours.  And it was done correctly.  It was an accomplishment I was very proud of.  I take great pride in the work I do, and I know Art and the rest of the staff notices it.

Busy Couple of Days

As my whirlwind internship continues, I have had quite the busy past couple days.

On Friday, the Prague trip was starting to wind down for my colleagues who went overseas.  As part of the trip they took a ton of pictures of their experience to post it on our site.  I got the distinct pleasure of getting to caption all 66 photos.  It was a whole lot of fun to see the little details of the trip.  For anyone who has not done captions for photography it can get  relatively difficult throughout the process.  Why is that you might ask.
1.  You try not to repeat a caption.  When there a lot of pictures of the team warming up, there are only about three ways to describe stretching.
2.  During practice the players don't have names or numbers on their jerseys.  Identifying players can be next to impossible if it is a zoomed out shot.

Then after I was captioning all the pictures, Art asked me to transcribe two interviews.  One of Tyler Seguin the other of GM Peter Chiarelli.  The two interviews totaled about 10 minutes.  The two took me about a half hour to transcribe.  This task is very difficult depending on how quickly the person talks and how well they enunciate each word.   The Seguin interview proved to be a somewhat difficult task.   Between filler words (like, ummmm, like) and the speed he was talking I had to continue rewinding the footage to make sure I quoted Seguin correctly.  The Chiarelli interview was longer but considerably easier.  He enunciated every single word, and spoke reasonably slowly, which made my job easier.  There are two very big differences between the two people. Seguin is a hockey player, it is not particularly his job to be speaking to the public.  He is getting payed to help put the puck in the net.  Chiarelli makes the big bucks for speaking for players and the organization.  So, I understand.

I had Monday off.  Thank you Christopher Columbus.

Ok, back to work.  I actually got to do something with Photoshop today.  Jason Levine found out that I have an extensive background in Adobe Photoshop.  So, I got to create the little logos that will be featured in Joe Haggerty's Power Rankings.  I just had to do some basic Photoshop work, but it was something new and fun that I knew I could do.

The Randy Gene Experience

When you work in this business, big news is the most fun experience throughout the day.  The newsroom get really loud and rowdy as discussions of the event echo throughout the newsroom.  Wednesday morning was very different.  A monumental trade went down sending Patriots wide receiver Randy Moss to the Minnesota Vikings.  At around 9 a.m. I arrived in the newsroom to find out about the news of Moss,  but there were no discussions, there was no ranting about why the Patriots made a terrible move. Why was today any different than other days?  The majority of the people who are normally in the newsroom at 9 went on the trip to Prague to follow the Boston Bruins.  This made my morning very interesting.  It was up to me and (a video intern) Tim to hold down the fort and get the video and news out to the public.  We did just that.  I posted the story immediately after finding out the news, and he gathered pictures in preparation for the mid-day update that would be coming his way when more people came in.

Later in the day I was navigating my way through the Patriots web site after the deal became verified by the team.  I then found my way looking in the Pro Shop site and discovering that the price of an authentic Randy Moss jersey has plummeted from $250 to $75 dollars.  I got a laugh out of it so I shared it to Art and Rich.  Art replied, "Write it up, then put it in the Patriots folder."  I was kinda confused, I didn't realize that was actually news.  I wrote it up anyway, and after a lot of editing by Art it turned out to be this.  Art taught me that when writing something like that to just punch at it.  What I had before he considered it as "too wordy" and now I understand.  I have to get myself out of the habit of writing around the topic.  Word counts in high school and college are really hurting me right now.  I am really learning a lot, and having a lot of fun at the same time.

Then today, I got to help out the CSNNE community again concerning the Randy Moss situation.  Tom E. Curran had a lot of work to do today in preparation for his show Quick Slant tonight.  After the trade, the show took a complete 180 degrees in another direction.  This gave me a chance to help out, so I told him I could.  Tonights "Stats are for Losers" segment will be the fruits of my labor.  I went through the Randy Moss stat archive to try and find how many games he led the team in receiving yards and what their record was.  When Randy Moss led the team in receiving over his 3+ years in New England the team was 17-3.  In the remaining games that he did not lead the team they were 25-11.  So, hopefully this stat that I acquired helps people make their decision whether the Moss deal was a positive or not.  I can't wait to tune into the show and see the stats that I got!

Once again, it makes me feel so good that Art and the rest of the staff has so much confidence in me that they don't feel the need to babysit me throughout the day.  I feel like my hard work has finally payed off.

Feeling at Home

Well, it has been a good month, five weeks, 25 days, however you want me to put it.  A whole lot has happened here at Comcast Sports Net.  I have learned some valuable lessons already and can't wait to see what is in store for me over the coming months.

Anyway, the meaning of this post is to go over how comfortable I am here.  I feel like I know exactly what I am doing at the time, and I can't wait to do more things as my time here moves along.  I not only feel comfortable, but I think that the rest of the web team feels confident in me as well.  The writing team seems to have no issues asking me about my opinion, help, and also for knowledge that I might have on a certain topic.  The other day, Art was doing some research about next years Red Sox team.  He came to me to do some research about the salaries that the team has on the books for next season.  It was actually interesting to me.  I found out some new things about the financial system of MLB, something I never really understood or cared about in the past.

Keeping on the same theme, Bill showed has shown on a couple occasions that he trusts me to do good work.  The tasks he has given to me have been mostly from a business standpoint.  The first one was to help organize receipts from a writers road trip.  I can't remember if I mentioned it or not, so I figured I would mention it again.

The second task Bill gave me was a much more important one.  As many people may know (if you don't, go to my shameless promotional link) the Bruins have headed to Prague to open up their season.  This is a monumental trip for CSN as we push to get more coverage for all sports in an attempt to become the go-to web site for all things New England sports.  Bill wants to see what kind of ratings our site is getting throughout the trip.  That is where I come in to the equation.  I have been placed in the middle of this trip, don't worry I'm not going to Prague.  I am responsible for keeping an eye on the web traffic throughout the trip, basically seeing if it was worth it.  I have learned so much about the business aspect of CSN/the internet, and is very fascinating.

As more tasks get placed on my shoulders I feel trusted and so at home here.  I guess I am doing something right.

UPDATE:  Just stumbled across a bunch of messed up videos.  I helped save the Celtics Dancer special.

Hindsight is 20/20

As time continues to fly by throughout my internship at CSN I still am loving every second of what I am doing.  The other day Mary was doing a blog about the Red Sox I dug through the sporting archives that is my brain to remember the best Bruins fights of recent memory.  I clearly remember some totally awesome PJ Stock fights like this one, this one, or even this one.  I chose this fight between the Ottawa Senators and Boston Bruins as my favorite.  Mary ended up agreeing and including it in her blog for the day.  I was very happy to help.  Being a lifelong Boston sports fan is an extreme advantage in the location where I am right now.  I know all the monumental events in Boston folk lore, ones that not all people will remember, and other tidbits that are so pointless that I can't find a You-Tube video or even picture.  My hometown connection gives me the chance to reference moments from the past.

I got a chance to help make an already posted story better with the wondrous powers of the internet and previous knowledge of the Red Sox season.  Sean McAdam wrote a terrific article about 10 specific games that led to the downfall of our beloved Red Sox this season.  My responsibility was to go into the archives of the season, find these specific game recaps, and create a link to the new article.  This task would enable readers to (unfortunately) relive the pain of what happened in these individual games.

This was a powerful lesson for me and my internship.  I learned that history is a powerful tool to use.  It gives you insight into what events built up to the present.  Using historic knowledge that you may have can only enrich the story that you are writing.  Like they say "hindsight is 20/20" and you should never things that have passed, good or bad.  They can only do you good in the writing business.

CSN at a Standstill

Primed and ready for an eventful day, the CSN web staff is working hard to find news to reveal to the public.  "The site is down!" comes from the office of Jason Levine.  Suddenly our day has been put to a halt.  Not just a small halt either.  The site was down from 2:00 to 7:00 and it reverted our news back to the previous week. So, in a nutshell people did not get up to date news from us because scheduled maintenance took place during the peak news hour of the day.  That sounds reasonable right?  This wasnt just New England either, this problem resonated throughout the CSN branches throughout the country.  The worst part is both Art and my good friend (and former CSN all-star) Timothy Meagher tell me that this issue happens all the time, and causes a ruckus every time it happens. So, on behalf of the entire CSN community, thanks a lot Platformic!

Because of the standstill I got to do some new and different activities throughout the day!  The first thing I got to do was to sort through the e-mails going to Mike Felger for his Hey Felger! segment.  There were some really good questions from fans, but for every good one there was an equally awful one.  After looking over the questions,  we then forwarded them to Mike for him to answer them.

Then, I got a chance to do a little more REAL intern work.  I had to help do some financial work for Bill.  I was responsible for looking through a massive (and i mean massive) pile of receipts from a writers road trip.  I had to correspond the receipts to another sheet of paper.  It was tedious work.  It really wasn't too too bad.

RIGHT NOW:  There is a VERY intense conversation between Sherrod Blakely and Kyle Draper about the who the top three players in the NBA are. This conversation has been going on for 30 minutes (and counting.) Draper is not thrilled that Sherrod is not including LeBron James in his top three.  This is so entertaining... and informative.

Pat Burns died today, then commented on his own death?

"There is absolutely nothing going on today," says Mary Paoletti as we search twitter for news and a potential Wicked Good Sports story idea.  We spoke too soon.  There WAS nothing, that was until the Pat Burns saga began.

For anyone outside the sporting world who does not know who Pat Burns is.  Shame on you.   Pat Burns is a legendary coach in the National Hockey League and former coach or our dear Boston Bruins.  Unfortunately Burns was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer.  Many media outlets over the past couple weeks have been reporting that Burns' condition has been deteriorating.

This morning CTV in Ottawa reported that Burns lost his battle with cancer.  So, as all news stories do, the topic then went through twitter faster than anyone could say... he is alive!  That's right readers, Pat Burns did not die.  In fact, he probably got to read the stories celebrating his life before they got pulled from their respective sites.

 A family member of Burns commented saying, "Pat is surprised to learn he's dead."  Even Burns got to comment on his death. (as weird as that sounds)  "Here we go again," Burns told TSN's Bob McKenzie. "They're trying to kill me before I'm dead. ... I come to Quebec to spend some time with my family and they say I'm dead. I'm not dead, far [expletive] from it. They've had me dead since June. Tell I'm alive. Set them straight."

How many times do people get to comment to the media about their death?  Today's CSN lesson of the day: don't rush a story just to be the first to get it out.  Get the facts straight, check them several times, then you can write the best, most credible story you can.

The Inez Sainz Influence

Its a slow day in the newsroom today.  I guess I will write about the lack of material there is today.  There are three days until the Patriots game on Sunday, the Sox are just barely still alive, and the Bruins rookie game is tonight.  That is the extent of the news today.

One thing that is still buzzing around the newsroom is the Ines Sainz saga.  To fill anyone in about the situation, Ines Sainz is a a sports reporter for a Mexican news station.  She is a very attractive woman, and pretty much flaunts it by wearing tight clothes and other provocative outfits.  Last week she entered the New York Jets locker room to do an interview with quarterback Mark Sanchez.  Things were said (no one really knows what was said) in the locker room that she deemed inappropriate.  This has started an uproar between the media, players, and viewers alike.  Many people have chimed in on the issue.  We were lucky to have two willing women to talk about it on our site in two different mediums.  Carolyn Manno spoke up about her opinion on the topic in a casual conversation, which then led to her appearance on The Dino Radja Experience (Rich Levine's weekly podcast) to address the situation.  (Link here -- http://is.gd/fdK84 )  Mary Paoletti also got a chance to talk about it in a more comical fashion via Wicked Good Sports.  Mary goes into the locker rooms every week with her coverage of the Patriots.  She even mentions an alternative way to dress this week now that SHE has to go into the Jets locker room.  (Link here -- http://is.gd/fdKyv)  Although I am not an attractive woman... or a woman at all, I still have learned a valuable lesson throughout this story.  I learned that if you want to be taken seriously in the professional world, you must view yourself as a professional and dress the part.

Okay, now on to the casual factor of the day.  Today is the day for Quick Slants at 7:00 pm on CSN (Shameless promo) so Tom Curran was in the office.  Because of the lack of news today, I naturally was looking for something to do.  So, the two of us played catch with a Nerf football, which has been the highlight of my day.

So, in a nutshell, I am still enjoying every second of my internship.  I just have to remember... no news is good news... and very boring.

Filling in the gaps

So...its been over a week since I have last posted.  I have so much to catch up on.  There were some pretty eventful moments in the New England Sports scene.  Not sure when specifically all of these events took place, but they were all important things to me and my internship.  So, this might be somewhat of a scattered post.

I have started to settle into my post here at Comcast Sports.  I am still searching the twitter-verse for important news relevant to our region.  With a ton of news surrounding the New England Patriots, Tom Brady, and Randy Moss I learned a few massive lessons. The first lesson I learned was how important sources are to the sports writing world.  On September 7th I came into work with news swirling about an "imminent" deal for quarterback Tom Brady. The Boston Herald reported the deal... it turned out to be false.  "Imminent" turned out to be a very wrong choice of words.  The news of the false report was the talk of the newsroom.  Needless to say, Tom Brady, and a quick trigger finger by Ian Rapoport were the talk of the Newsroom.  I learned a couple things because of the situation, when a report comes out such as this, give the source FULL credit for two reasons.  1) It was their information first, they put in the work, they should get the credit.  2)  Just in case they did not put the work in and the report is FALSE, it is their head is on the line for the information released.

The second event sent shock-waves through the entire New England sporting world.  Tom Brady was in a car accident in the morning.  Not a whole lot was known about the severity of the incident.  Once again, I arrived to work at 9:00 am and was forced to navigate my way through the fact and fiction of the myriad of reports coming through the Twitter wire that occupied my screen.  For the second day straight Tom Brady was responsible for a days worth of work.  This story was above any contract discussions, this involved the livelihood of not only a sports icon, but others as well.  We sifted through the details and discovered that Brady was alright, but a man in the other vehicle was injured.  Then the media began to dissect every move Brady made, including his motions, his attitude, and even the fact that he wore his helmet during stretches.

Another big event that took place was the debut of Quick Slants.  An interactive show with Tom Curran and Mary Paoletti (you should really check it out).  This show was a pretty big deal.  The set is literally right next to my desk (pictured) and  I got a chance to help out with the rehearsals for the show!  I sat in the production room and sent chat questions to Mary to try and simulate the random questioning from viewers.  I came up with some zingers, I hope it helped.  The show debuted to great numbers as I got to see my co-workers in action... and yes they are as cool as they seem.

I have really learned a lot already throughout my internship, and I have only been here two weeks.  I could not have asked for a better boss.  Art is a great writer, just reading his work (and how quickly he writes it) is impressive and will help me become a better writer.  We will have to see how that goes.


JUST ANNOUNCED: While I was working on this very blog Laurence Maroney was traded to the Denver Broncos. I love when big news comes in!

Straight Up Intern Work

I don't know if I have mentioned it, but Platformic is a very frustrating production system for the web site.  It always seems to fail me at the most inopportune times.  I have suffered from missing cursors about 100 times in my one week here.  I got to deal with Platformic at its finest the other day.

Art described to me that I will be doing "real intern work" and "apologized in advance."  I then found out what I was going to be doing.  There were 2800 stories in the top story database, and I was responsible for deleting all but ten of them.    This is where the annoyance of Platformic comes in.  I have found it never makes ANYTHING easy.  To delete these I had to go to a pull down menu go to "remove this article from feed" hit enter... then a new screen comes up confirming the removed story.  Then take into consideration loading times.  This task took me eight hours (you read it right) possible carpal tunnel in both hands, and excessive amounts of Mountain Dew to complete, but it was done. 

It gave me a sense of gratification when Art gave me a high five after completing the task.  Now, (because of me) instead of news in the top stories being displayed in order of submission they can be placed in order of importance.

Needless to say, the task sucked.  If these are the things I have to do to make a name for myself and show I am dedicated to my dream... so be it.

Breaking News is fun

Since I just starting blogging last night, I haven't got a chance to talk about the hectic afternoon I had on August 31st.

Throughout the day... well... not a whole lot happened.  The only thing I got a chance to post was a brief blurb about Vince Wilfork being willing to play an 18-game season (not a big deal).

Tuesdays are the day for the biggest meeting on CSN property... so I was on my own for about three hours.  Of course, something huge had to happen during that period.

I found out via twitter (and a bunch of loud voices in the newsroom) that Red Sox pitcher Manny Delcarmen had been traded to the Colorado Rockies.  I was the one responsible for posting this breaking news.  The one problem... I've never done something like that before.  So after about a minute, I broke the news to New England as well as I could. 

About a minute after this took place Art came out of his meeting.  We added a few things to the headline as time passed and more information came in.

Considering it was just my second day, the situation was very nerve-racking.  I feel like I did a pretty good job.  Now, I hope no one else gets traded, but if it does happen I will be ready.

The New Guy

The first two days of my internship were exciting and productive...

The time has come for my internship to start.  I head into the building.  The one thing I had in my head was to not be starstruck when I met my new co-workers, who I have read their material and some I have seen on T.V.  Believe it on not, this was a lot easier than I thought it would be.  I immediately met Sherrod Blakely (Celtics insider) and Mary Paoletti (Wicked Good Sports Blog) and they made me feel at home.  They welcomed me to sit down with them and chat until my boss, Art Martone arrived.  Sherrod, a Syracuse grad, began flaunting his Orange paraphernalia to Mary, a UConn grad (a running joke around the office full of Syracuse grads.)

Things were also surprisingly very casual in my first interaction.  For some reason it was very cold in the office, Mary wrapped herself in a blanket that looked eerily like a snuggie.  This, much to her frustration, led to many comments around the office throughout the afternoon.

and i digress...

Art arrived and I began to learn what I would be doing over the duration of my internship.  The base of my day was spend learning the dreaded Platformic media system.  This is the program that is responsible for posting articles and editing the CSN web site.  As I learned the system somewhat quickly, I began searching social network sites like twitter for any stories of importance.  After finding something headline worthy, I was able to write a little something and post it.

My fist post can be found here.  http://www.csnne.com/pages/v1_landing?blockID=300440
Its really nothing special, but it is very exciting seeing your work on a web site for everyone in New England to see.

The Beginning

Well, how do I get this thing started?  Let's start the normal way...

My name is Dan Quin.  I am from Ayer, Massachusetts and a student at Fitchburg State University (still not used to saying that.) The basis of this blog is to document my internship at Comcast SportsNet in Burlington, Massachusetts.  For anyone who knows me already knows that I can be described as a "sportsaholic" especially for my Boston sports.  Since high school it has been my dream to have some sort of media job in sports.  So here we are, thanks to the FSU internship program (and Timothy Oisin Meagher) I am living the dream.

Over the next four months I will be blogging about experiences, lessons, and good times at Comcast SportsNet.  I look forward to every single second of it.  If you choose to follow me... THANKS.  I hope you enjoy.