Dallas Live Music Show – Records Record Records

by Jerod Morris

Records Record Records, one of the two “Official Bands of Midwest Sports Fans” (the other being The Franchize) is playing a show in Dallas this weekend.  Seeing as how these guys are frequent contributors to our site and unbelievably talented musicians, I wanted to give them a little pub here on the site.  The following is a press release by Dallas Live Music that was just released online regarding their upcoming show:

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Admin Note: Site Updates and Writers Sought

by Jerod Morris

As you may have noticed, our post frequency has lessened over the the past week.  I am currently taking on a few tasks with the long-term interests of Midwest Sports Fans, and our partners, in mind.

1) We are seeking new writers.  I will be initiating an online recruiting campaign this week to find sports fans who are passionate and want to write for our site.  My goal, as I’ve stated before, is to every sports team in the Midwest covered.  It will take a while to get there, but we will.  If you are visiting and interested in having a forum to write about your favorite sports team, and having your writing promoted online, shoot me an email.

2) I am also going to be spending some time working on one of our partner sites, FlashSportsTonight.com.  The producers of this site and I have some exciting things planned for the future, so stay tuned.

3) I am currently entertaining the idea of also starting another blog that will partner with Midwest Sports Fans, but that will focus exclusively on IU basketball.  I haven’t decided for sure yet, but stay tuned for details if you are an IU fan.

4) We are developing an innovative way to bring live-blogging to Midwest Sports Fans.  This will be a feature of the site in the coming weeks.

Don’t worry, the posts will be coming again soon.  Truth be told, this was a pretty depressing sports week for me.  Carlos Quentin broke his wrist, the Dolphins lost, the Browns looked terrible, and Tennessee lost to UCLA.  So I would only have been posting depressing crap anyway.  Once the White Sox clinch a playoff spot, the Browns get it together against Pittsburgh next week, and Tennessee beats Florida, you can expect some wholehearted gloating and excitement back here on Midwest Sports Fans.

In the meantime, feel free to browse our archives or post comments telling us that we are geniuses/complete idiots for our posts.  Have a great week.

-Jerod

Admin Note: I Feel Dirty

by Jerod Morris

I had to post this picture of KVB on the front page to cheer myself up because I officially feel dirty, slimy, and like a complete and total loser. Why? Because I just bit the bullet and updated the Purdue, Michigan, and Cubs pages with the live news feed widgets. We’re starting to get a little bit of traffic and I wanted all of the pages we have up so far to at least have the news feeds. Get to them by clicking over there on the toolbar. I’m just happy I’ll never have to visit those pages again.

On a positive note, we cracked 1,000 page views today and have had 210 unique visitors. Not bad considering I just released the site to search engines about a week ago. We even had one visitor get to our site by typing “Scott Stapp” in google! All because I described Aaron Rodgers as looking like Creed’s former singer and douche bag. Not sure how I feel about a search for Scott Stapp bringing people to the site, but any exposure is good exposure I guess. We even cracked $1.00 in total ad earnings! So keep clicking on those ads and visiting our sponsors! (like the ones below…)

To everyone who has written so far, I appreciate your excitement and involvement in the site. If you’re a visitor, don’t forget to register and contribute with comments, suggestions for site content, or even posts of your own. We were the ones who started this site, but we want it to grow into a comprehensive community of Midwest sports fans covering as many teams and topics as people desire.

Have a great Friday…and if you like this site, don’t forget to Digg it or Stumble it or bookmark it (links below). And come back soon.

UPDATE: To make myself feel better I just created a Tennessee Volunteers page. Much, much better. And no, Florida will not be getting a page. They are from the south. Even though the Vols are in the SEC, they border Kentucky. That’s enough for me. I guess at some point I’ll have to create a Notre Dame page. Ugh…