I'm still here

Just wanted you guys to know I didn't forget about you or this blog. Been busy in the office the last few days. Going to have a notebook coming soon, and a cool feature on a CCSU athlete who's been doing big things.
No ETA on the other thing. It's going to happen though, I checked with one of my sources to confirm it. Just waiting for it to come together. Hopefully soon, I want to write it (and stop teasing you all about it) as much as you want to read it.

Never forget

Just a quick thought. I was watching ESPN, and I saw the Saints are home tonight. More importantly, I saw that it was being treated as a football game.
That's important. There's a long way to go to rebuild New Orleans, but the fact that this game is important as much because the Saints need a win as it is because the city needs some good vibes is a good sign.
Or maybe it means we have short attention spans. So if you get a chance, find U2 and Greenday from the night they reopened the Superdome. It will give you chills. Then read the story I wrote about what CCSU did to raise money for the relief efforts. It was touching stuff.
More importantly, remember that there are always people who need our help and that, in the grand scheme of things, there are bigger things in the world than who wins the football game tonight.

Here's the link to that story I wrote: http://www.newbritainherald.com/site/index.cfm?newsid=15193140&BRD=1641&PAG=461&dept_id=594835&rfi=8

Another quickie

Lots of stuff coming in the next week or so, but just a couple of thoughts today.

1) I hope the person who emailed me on Friday night to yell at me for telling you all to go see the women's soccer team on the day of its letdown was there Sunday. Yes, Friday was a clunker. I've seen CCSU lose a few times over the years, but that was the first time I ever saw the Devils fail to show up.
But the opposite was the case on Sunday. They lost to a very good Yale team (two of Yale's losses are to nationally-ranked teams), but controlled play at times and obviously were into the game full throttle. If they play like that all year, they'll win a lot of games. And if the team I saw on Sunday shows up in the NCAAs (assuming a lot, I know) some big-name team is going to have its hands full.

2) I was going to mention this Friday, but I got sidetracked. Then something came up again that reminded me of it. I have to thank, as I try to do publicly once a season, Tom Pincince, Jason Stronz and the SID staff at CCSU. They help me in about 2,576 ways per year, and are a big part of why I'm able to do what I do. It could be as simple as getting my computer wired up on the road (I'm lucky if I can turn one on, never mind get an Internet connection) to helping me research a stat.
They don't do it to get their names in the paper or on a blog, but they deserve a mention. They were there again this weekend, and it made me remember to give thanks.

I've been fortunate to meet a lot of great people on this beat, from C.J. down through his staff to the coaches to guys you don't hear much about like Tom (current radio star) and Jason (future radio star) and Steve Villanti and a bunch of others. They are all helpful professionally and good people in general.

O.K., off my soapbox for the day. I'll be doing non-Central stuff for work on Monday, and I expect nothing in the way of news, so I probably won't blog again until Tuesday. But as always, is something comes up, I'll be on it.