The Column Proposal

Cutter's Log – Stardate 9002.62.10
Current Song – Walk Right In (The Rooftop Singers)

One weekly column. Put it in whatever day you want. Stringer rate is fine. I can write more than 15 column inches.

As a person who had traveled northern Illinois high school sports events (and parts of western, central and Chicago and its 'burbs) extensively over the past seven years, I have a well-rounded idea of what high school sports is like. I am well informed of high school sports news in Illinois.

I feel there's more to high school sports than just games and meets. There's also more to the resurrection of newspaper journalism than countless feature stories on people. An area that gets overlooked is the science of how high school sports work. There are stories to be told, processes to be taught and positives to be found.

Why should people know about these things? When we say, “I don't care,” one never knows who indeed does care. I don't write for editors, I write for everyone. There will be people who will not care for what I write, but that should not disappoint me. What I write can make people think in the way Andrew Carnegie helped people get rich.

There is so much to high school sports than what we already know. This is my purpose.

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But first I have to get a timing thing down.