Moving On: A bump-drafts Announcement
Today, I take occasion to share with you exciting news: I have been chosen to become editor of the Finish Line blog at fanboom. com.
Many of you who have been reading me a while, know that I became a staff writer at fanboom during the final week of the 2007 NASCAR season while I was in between jobs. For those of you not familiar with the website, it is an innovative approach for sports fans on the Internet. Imagine being able to get all the news about all your favorite sports with the click of a mouse. When you sign up at fanboom, that’s what you get free of charge. So like in my case, my favorite sports teams are the Denver Broncos, the Phoenix Suns, the Portland Trail Blazers, the Oakland A’s, the Los Angeles Dodgers, Jeff Gordon, Mark Martin, Bobby Labonte, Carl Edwards and Dale Earnhardt Jr. Now when I sign into fanboom, all the news about these guys (teams) are available without having to weed through a bunch of other sports news that doesn’t interest me. They also have a section for blogs. The NASCAR blog is appropriately called “The Finish Line.”
Tom Caporoso and Jake Rutter have done a great job of putting together a killer website. Besides being a great web designer and visionary, Jake is also a NASCAR fan full of great ideas. He also possesses design skill I don’t have.
To me, bump-drafts has been like being Robbie Gordon. I have made all the noise one guy can make, but by joining fanboom, I tap into the resources of a “well-funded”, upcoming team- kid of like a Team Red Bull so to speak. Many hands make light work and two heads are better than one.
My posting schedule will be as follows:
Sunday- Race Recap
Tuesday- Top 10 Drivers Power Rankings
Wednesday- “Green Flag” Race Preview
Thursday or Friday- commentary on current NASCAR headlines
Saturday- Fearless Forecast
A number of you are friends of mine from the three message boards I am a part of. In terms of the contributions I make to those communities, nothing will change.
But because there’s only so many hours in a day (and maintaining two blogs has been impossible), and because of fanboom’s generous offer, I am shutting down bump-drafts.
I invite you to come check out fanboom. Again, you will find me under “blogs” at “The Finish Line.”
Feel free to drop me a line with any questions you may have. Thank you all for reading- I hope you will continue reading- now it will be from a different place.
March 29th, 2008 at 8:37 am
Congrats Jim. This is a role that you deserved and I know you will be great at. Your blog posts are top-of-the-line. Here’s to future success!
March 29th, 2008 at 10:22 am
Jim, you’d better get me a new link I can post on the FCRL website. Glad to see bigger & better things come along for you. I know they’ll be getting the highest caliber reporter out there!
Good Luck to you!!
March 29th, 2008 at 11:21 am
Good for you…sure gonna miss this one, let me know the new one!
March 29th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
The link to my new place is http://nascar.fanboom.com
March 30th, 2008 at 9:03 am
All posted with a nice plug. I’ve heard from several of our local players, they all say the same thing: They all like what you’ve got to say, & whether they agree or not, they find your column informative & objective. You’re building quite the following in Buffalo/Niagara Falls: about half our members tell me they’re regular readers…… Hell, we’re proud to have one of our own hit the big time. All our best.
July 14th, 2008 at 6:20 am
I just added you to my reader. I really appreciate you posting this! -William
July 19th, 2008 at 6:41 am
Nice post, you got some good points there - thank you.