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It’s kind of embarrassing to look at my blog and see “9 November 2009″ as the date of my last published article.  It’s even more embarrassing to look at the topic of that article- the Packers’ horrible loss to Tampa Bay.  Oh, how much has changed since then…the Pack follow up that horrible loss with an impressive victory over Dallas and then get a Pyrrhic victory over San Francisco where they lose two of their star players on defense.  It’s definitely nice to see the Pack at 6-4, but it’s going to be tough to stay hot without Kampman and Harris.

This post, however, isn’t about the Pack.  It’s about what I’ve been up to the last couple weeks- namely, following a couple high school football teams through the section playoffs and down to the state tournament at the Metrodome.  Last week I was able to call a game from the Dome press box, a game between Mora and Glencoe-Silver Lake which ended in a 28-0 GSL victory.  It was the fourth playoff football game I’d called in a three week span, games that spanned from Minneapolis all the way up to Duluth.

In addition to broadcasting games on the radio, I’d been looking for other outlets to do some freelance writing, outlets that would be a little bit more formal than my own blog.  Enter Examiner.com into the mix…they’re an online news site with local editions in 50-60 cities around the U.S. and Canada.  There was an opening for a Minnesota High School Sports Examiner, and since I’d been broadcasting high school sports for 7 years, I figured I was qualified to apply for the position.  After a few days, I received word from their staff that they felt I was qualified as well, so I am now the Examiner for Minnesota High School Sports!

It’s certainly really exciting to write for a larger audience, and it’s a little bit different to realize that there will be people more than my family and friends reading these articles.  I’ve been doing ad-hoc writing for quite a while, however, so the time was right to make a foray into something a little more official.  Don’t worry, I’ll still post articles/blog entries here skewering B**tt F**re and providing completely biased opinions about the Pack, but anything high school related will be on Examiner.com.

Here’s a direct link to my page on Examiner.com; definitely take the time to browse around the site and read some of the articles.  I’ve been familiarizing myself with the site as well and have found a few Examiners that I’ll be following.  There are links right on my page that will set up an RSS feed so you can be automatically notified when I post something new, or you can sign up for e-mail alerts that’ll do the same thing.

Again, I’m really excited to start covering high school sports for Examiner.com, and with the Prep Bowl coming up this week at the Dome, I certainly picked a great week to start!