Status Update on your favorite sports blogger

Greetings, Nutshell Nation!

In an attempt to increase the numbers of my dedicated fan base, I may have recently been neglecting you. This has not been intentional and I certainly apologize for any bruised feelings. Besides, I'm sure you've had better things to do than wait on me. Like scrubbing the grout between your entryway tiles.

As my first, and still number one, set of sports readers, I am pleased to inform you that I've added a couple of gigs to my duties. During my never-ending job searches online, I discovered opportunities to write for other sports blogs where traffic is generated by much larger entities than myself. Duh!
I know, right? What took me so long?

After getting a taste of the "big-time" with the Deseret News prep sports online site, I will ramp that up by contributing to a world-wide sports based website called Rant Sports. The editors at Rant found my writing compelling enough to give me the opportunity to post as a regular feature writer on the Los Angeles Dodgers.

This will be a lot of work if I want to get paid--which I will, with your help. I must meet a quota of 30 articles per month plus one slide-show a month in order to receive compensation based on advertising revenues. In other words... I will have to write everyday about the Dodgers to get a few bucks. But hey! I am super excited about the opportunity to be read by a much, much larger audience.

I'm pretty sure, Nutshell Nation, that you guys will be the first to attest that I have no problem writing about sports, especially if based on my own opinions.

Here are the links to the Rant Sports sites where you can find my work on the Dodgers.

Rant Sports MLB Home

Rant Sports L.A. Dodgers Page

Rant Sports Kenny Bristow Author Page

I would sincerely appreciate all of you visiting these pages, if for no other reason than to let the editors at Rant think that I might have a few friends. And in the process, you may learn something about the Dodgers. I have always been a fan of the team and they hold a dear place in my heart from my years living in Los Angeles. My son Jesse and I would go to Chavez Ravine many times a season while he was a pup and those are memories I will cherish forever.

The other sports blogging endeavor I am about to embark on is called Sidelines. This is strictly a sports social site. An online sports bar, if you will, where educated and intelligent sports fans can go to chat, comment or just read opinions about the hottest topics from the sporting landscape.

I am excited about Sidelines for a couple of reasons. The first, it is a start-up. It's a brand new site with a fresh concept I truly believe in. The young fellows who have gotten Sidelines off the ground are pretty inspiring individuals and the fact that they're college educated with backgrounds at Microsoft and Google, bring some respectability to it. It would be cool to look back in a few years and say, hey... I was with them when they got themselves started.

Secondly, it is another golden opportunity to advance my career in online sports journalism. The format is fresh and it is a completely different style of writing, but still requires supreme knowledge of sports and the ability to start and continue conversation using that knowledge.

I find it exciting to have been brought in as an MVP--its called--to contribute in the MLB community.
MVP are writers who start conversations with respectable posts. Again, I will be working for the MLB community. I know! More baseball! But its in my wheeel house, kids.

I urge everyone who would like to discuss their favorite sports team or league to join Sidelines.
It's free and hopefully we can build in into something very mainstream.  Here is the link to that site:

Sidelines

Before closing, I would like to say thanks to everyone who has supported this blog. I will continue to post here. It has been a place for me to write about Wasatch prep sports outside of the other publications I'm working for and a place to throw some other thoughts about sports out there... in a more random and personal way.

Thanks everybody!

Kenny