BCS Executive Director Bill Hancock took to Yahoo! Sports last week to once again defend the BCS against its many, many detractors. The sport is thriving. College football works and works well, because of its unique regular season and because of the bowl tradition and bowl experience for the student-athletes…As the person who managed the...
I’ve been teaching about the basics of blogging for a little while now. Every time I do a class online I record the session so that folks who missed the class can catch it later. Very often I’ll have people tell me that they wanted to take the class but weren’t available at that specific...
Starting any blog can be a frightful proposition. Starting a sports blog from scratch can be especially daunting. How will you get noticed? What can you bring to the table that the blogs already covering your team or sport aren’t doing? Will you ever get more than just a handful of readers? Sometimes, timing is...
Learn all about the basics of blogging on Sunday, June 26th between 3pm – 8pm EST in Professional Blogging Boot Camp. Blogging can become an extremely fulfilling and enjoyable hobby, pastime or even job. However, that’s usually only the case when someone’s actually reading and sharing what you’re blogging about. Every day thousands of new...
Probably the most common question I get related to my Syracuse site is, “What does the name mean and where did it come from?” I know, that’s two questions, but most people can’t ask one without asking the other. I explained where it came from in the very first post I ever wrote for the...
A look back at my week in Syracuse when I taught IST 400/600: Blogging For Professionals and also met lots of readers at my How To Grow An Orange book signing at the SU Booksore. Read on for the gritty details…
If the stereotype of a blogger is a “guy sitting in his underwear in his mother’s basement writing opinions,” blogger Sean Keeley is trying to break it. Keeley, 32, calls himself a “professional blogger.” An editor of sports blog sbnation.com, he also maintains two of his own blogs: one about Syracuse University sports called nunesmagician.com,...
Traditional and online media members have their own takes on the Orange prospects. Sean Keeley is the creator of a blog about SU athletics titled “Troy Nunes is an Absolute Magician.” The site’s name came from when Keeley heard the phrase when SU played Auburn in 2002 and then-quarterback Troy Nunes took the Tigers into...
By Aaron Gould Sean Keeley promised his mother that if Donovan McNabb could produce a miracle, they would have no choice but to rush the field. With a tough pass across his body, the Syracuse football legend found Stephen Brominski in the end zone as time expired, beating Virginia Tech 28-26. Fulfilling his promise Keeley...
Syracuse iSchool holding contest to find bloggers for “Nunes Magician”
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