The wish list

It pays to ask - sometimes.

Our request to interview Sarah Palin about youth sports (and her hockey-mom identity) continues to be ignored by the McCain-Palin Campaign. Could this explain the ticket's recent slide in the polls?

On the other hand, the sports editor of the Rapid City Journal, Andrew Cutler, sent a nice note in response to Monday's post about the newspaper's high school blog. (I'd invited myself as a guest on the blog's no-frills "Three-Minute Drill" video segment). Andrew found our blog entry and emailed that I was welcome to join the panel "anytime you are in Rapid City." I'm checking the calendar.

Live from South Dakota

Last weekend, I spent a few hours sampling high school sports blogs from daily newspapers around the country, from the Salt Lake City Tribune to the Charlotte Observer. Granted, an unusual exercise in web surfing, but well worth the time. As you'd imagine, the coverage and chat are quite formulaic - scores, recaps, coach quotes, which star athletes have accepted scholarship offers to which powerhouse schools. Then, for something entirely different, there's the Rapid City (South Dakota) Journal and its weekly "Three-Minute Drill." I can't decide whether to award these youth sports bloggers a prize for originality (certainly not for set design), but I do plan on tuning in again. Think of if as the "Washington Week" of prep football.

Gentlemen, is that empty seat in the front reserved for me?