Five Questions with…The Hockey Volunteer

Join me over at the new home for…On Being a Sports Girl, as I interview Adam Sherlip, aka the Hockey Volunteer. Adam will be traveling to India in January to teach hockey in the Himalayans. Impressive, right? Join me as I talk to Adam about his motivation, challenges and future plans.

If you have yet to update your RSS feeds and the like, please do so that you will not miss out on any of …On Being a Sports Girl. The new …On Being a Sports Girl – new domain, new design, same old Kat.

It’s Ready….

It’s ready!

While I will continue to cross post some of my posts here, the brand new …On Being a Sports Girl is ready at http://www.sportsgirlkat.com.

I reccomend that you update your bookmarks and check out the site early and often.  I have a lot of things planned – giveaways, exclusive interviews, and the like – and you will want to check it out as much as possible!  Consider this new site a holiday present to you – you asked for more SportsGirlKat, and I obliged!

Thank you to all of my readers, and here’s to more sports discussion in 2009!

My Grand Experiment

I have taken the plunge and am currently in the process of setting up my own domain: www.sportsgirlkat.com.  This is all new to me, but has been a step I have been researching and mulling over for a few months.  If I ever want to make my coffee money through writing (because I fully realize I’ll never make real money writing, but if I could possible earn coffee money, it would be helpful), I would need to do so from my own domain.

When the new site is fully ready, I’ll be sure to let you all know.  As always, thank you for your readership!

Well, If You Want the Bills and the Sabres So Much, Why Don’t You Take All of Us?

Dear My Canadian Family/Ma famille Canadienne,

Let Rochester become a member of "The Eh Team." (T-shirt available at Noisebot.com)

Last Sunday, Western New York let you borrow the Buffalo Bills for a game. You gave them the Rogers Centre, a dull and lifeless home. They, in turn, gave you a dull and lifeless football game. I apologize for the unproductive exchange. Maybe when we have a quarterback, a new coach, and uninjured defense, this will go much better.

Because you were probably pretty bitter at the inferior goods we sent to Toronto, you decided last Monday to express interest in purchasing the Buffalo Sabres. Not all of you exactly, but the CEO of the best thing to come out of Canada since Tim Hortons Coffee, Research in Motion (RIM), which manufactures Blackberries. (I love my Blackberry like a second cat.) If they were for sale, RIM’s CEO reportedly is interested in buying the Sabres with a stipulation that some of their home games be played in Hamilton, Ontario.

Well, Canada, it seems that you are interested in all things Western New York. So do I have a deal for you.

Take us all.

Goalies, Goalies Everywhere.

This weekend, I posted a nice little piece at the HLOG (Hockey’s Ladies of Greatness) titled, Dear Hockey East; Thanks for the goalies. Love, The NHL. It covers the NHL callups of Maine’s Ben Bishop, Boston College’s Cory Schneider and Everyone’s Favorite Goalie, Boston University’s John Curry.  In it, I actually give Schneider props (please don’t take away my Terrier Fan card!)

There are times where I write a piece and think, “Hmmm, maybe I should have kept with that Sports Information and Communication major I had early on in college.”  This HLOG piece is one of those times.  I hope you all enjoy it.