Again, posting from a mile high

Woah, woah, woah!

I don’t know about you guys, but my internship is going way too fast.

I only have three weeks left? Are you serious?

I am in love with Denver. This city has everything: sports, women and ______ <------ You name it. Every event that I have been assigned is an event that I have never covered in the past. Tennis tournaments. MLS. Motocross. Drag Racing. And while these sports aren’t my forte, I appreciate what I have been able to learn en route to becoming a better writer. Enough about me…I really want to know how my SJI Family is doing! How ya’ll doin!?

Special thanks to Alex on the chap stick suggestion. I chose blue (as seen below) over the other three colors, and I haven’t had a day of chapped lips since. I will get those suggestions to Woody whenever I can catch a break from my schedule to sit in on a show.

Aaron and Malik – This year at Hampton is going to be CRAZY once we get back. Shout out to Scripps!

Shout out to Tariq, turning 21-years old this weekend. You're grown now. Who saw the flyer advertising this weekend’s birthday bash at Ibiza? I see you trying to Looking like a star. Be safe bro! Wish I could be there to celebrate with you.

Isis ICE Boogie Roberts – We need to get in the studio soon. I’ll drop the beat. That is all. (I know you look nothing like Mary J, but its the most respectable photo I could find. )

KG - How is Utah treating you? I need a good laugh, man.

Amelia, Cheng and Aaron – all of who did not post the last time around – I hope you guys are alive and well.

That’s all I got. Enjoy the weekend!

Pittsburgh Chillin...

What's going on everybody? So far my time in Pittsburgh has been pretty cool as far as work goes. There is actually more that goes on aside from Roethlisbeger getting wild at bars. I've mostly been covering high schools and colleges, but I have a bigger story coming pretty soon.

Obviously being at SJI with you guys was literally the best thing ever, but Pittsburgh is a close second.

Some highlights:
-Went to PNC park, which has an great view of the city skyline. (Much better than watching the Pirates)
-Went to a theme park on the company's dime.
-Went to Pitt's prospect camp. (Their facility is amazing...I felt like Cheng at ESPN Wild World of Sports)

I'm sure there will be more to come, but for now I'm just trying to treat everything like the Super Bowl and eventually I'll get that Woodward & Bernstein story.

EXTRA POINTS:
Shemar and Isis congrats on LA winning. I am still not a hater and I stand by my statements about Kobe.

Shout out to Amelia who's doing big things on paper and on camera.

Too Tall that Knicks picture was funny, but I've got something better for you:
http://timsonlinebetting.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Oakland-Raiders-NFL-betting-www.casinoguidecanada.ca-online-betting-winning-streak.jpg

Empire State of Mind

What's going on SJI fam??? It's great to hear about some of your updates about your adventures in your new spots. Unlike all of you, I'm working an hour away from home in NYC. But I decided to live in the city anyway because I wanted to be flexible for my internship and really get the experience of living in the fast-paced environment of the Big Apple.

So far, it's been a great experience. The MLB offices are only a 30 minute subway ride from my apartment, so that's been convenient. As for my assignments, I've had some success and some failure with those.

On my second day there, my editors assigned me to cover this gala where Bill Walton, Dick Enberg, and Eddie Einhorn (chairman of the White Sox) were supposed to be in attendance. All of them had ties to John Wooden, so my job was to interview them and write a story about Wooden's legacy in baseball.

Looking my freshest, I went to the gala and immediately ran to some problems. The media relations person told me that Dick Enberg and Eddie Einhorn weren't in attendance and, in fact, weren't actually invited. Unfortunately, my editors received the wrong information on that one, so they told me just to rely on Walton. The problem, however, was that MLB learned about the gala late and requested Walton the night before the event, so we were denied by media relations because he was apparently "booked for the night". At the gala, I still approached him to try to do a quick interview, but he politely declined because he wanted to interact with the kids at the event. I managed to interview other sources, but my editors decided to axe the story because they knew the situation was out of our control.

The one success was that I volunteered to go to an all-Spanish press conference for Yankees catcher Francisco Cervelli and write a story about his development during Jorge Posada's time on the DL. I'm currently working on it, but I definitely enjoyed doing my first interview in Spanish.

So that's all for me right now. Good luck to everyone and I want to keep hearing about your adventures!

As Promised ...

It's the rodeo photo. Enjoy that one -- it's on me.

Santa Cruz Checking In!!

My SJI loves!! It has been too long since we have spoken. Just think. Exactly one month ago, we were just finishing school and getting ready for our trip to Florida. Doesn't it seem like a year has gone by?!! Everything has happened so fast. This last month is like a blur to me! A very good blur, at that.

Well, since you've been gone (Kelly Clarkson voice), I went to LA for a week to gather my stuff and prepare for my move to Santa Cruz. I also enjoyed my LAKERS win ANOTHER CHAMPIONSHIP. It was just so special to me because I believe BIG SEXY, GOON, GREG, MALIK & CHENG doubted them. Silly rabbits! Just for that, take this face!

Now that that's off my chest, let me tell you about my experience here in Santa Cruz. I've been here for a week and it's... different. Not in a bad way. I actually like it here. I'm a city girl 100% and now I'm here in Santa Cruz where everything is chill and everyone is friendly. Santa Cruz definitely has a good vibe. Unfortunately, I have also been very sick. Since I got off the plane from Florida, I've lost my voice and caught a cold. Then when I got here, I've got real bad allergies. None the less, I'm finally starting to get better. I'm glad to here that Goon is doing well too.

Since I've been in Santa Cruz, I have written a story about scholar-athletes, a little league team and a football camp. BUT the biggest thing that I've gotten to do was cover the U.S. OPEN with Tiger, Tiger Woods yall!

Since I'm not as knowledgeable in golf as in other sports, I got permission to be in charge of the multimedia aspect of the Open. I tweeted (even did a bubble tweet) and they also gave me a flip cam, in which I recorded interviews with. Tiger Woods looked like the old Tiger again. He finished in the top five. Funny quote I got from him at the end of round 2 was:

"I was able to control my balls," Tiger said.

Well, I'm so happy that we are all Facebooking and Twitter, Glittering each other. Make sure we always keep in touch! I'm glad everyone is doing well.

And not to toot my own horn or anything, BUT I believe my old roommate Amelia is doing it the biggest out of all of us! She's covering Vikings stories, doing NFL features and even doing some broadcast. I'm proud of you MOM!!

I never thought I would join a fraternity, but I'm glad I'm in SJI

Welcome to the Fraternity (Morgan Freeman voice) EASY!!

-Isis AKA Ice Boogie

Greetings from Sacramento!

Forgive me SJI for I have sinned, it has been nearly a month since my last blog post. I have certainly missed the comradery that we've developed in our time at Poynter, especially the jokes. Being out here in Sacramento, California has been quite the experience; I've only been here for one week and I am already in love with the left coast. The women are beautiful and the scenery isn't too shabby either; I could definitely get used to this. But this blog is about you guys, my classmates...

Shemar: I honestly can say that I wouldn't have any of this if it wasn't for your help. You have been looking out since my sophomore year at HU and your help has not gone unnoticed. Needless to say, neither has your uncanny resemblance to a few stand up comedians, so if your journalism career gets too monotonous you can always try stand up comedy.

Tariq: 'Reporting live from outside a Mexican Restaurant in Orlando, Florida...Tariq Lee, in the eye of the storm.' Don't sweat the hate that we're receiving from fellow SJI grads--who shall remain nameless--they're just jealous that they ain't get the scoop on the hurricane. However, I

think everyone will know you from your world famous hair commercials. If not, there's always Dru Hill...

Malik (aka Shabazz): You have been the strongest out of all of us, simply by being a Knicks fan...in public...even after drafting Reynaldo Balkman. I applaud your courage and I only hope that one day the Knicks can get to .500 in the regular season. Go Pants! Salami, eggs and bacon my brotha...

Mama and Isis: I miss you guys too. Mama, good looking out on the sports checks. It took us a few days, but we finally got on the same page and were even making some of the same guesses--go figure. Ice Boogy, u got bars and can write your butt off...nuff said. We gotta link up while your out in Santa Cruz though.

KG: Needless to say, you're my favorite KG. That other guy gives you a bad name. You definitely provided a lot of comedic moments at SJI. Still waiting for your autograph on my copy of Up.

Alex: I now understand things that were totally unclear to me when class first started at SJI...certain, behavioral patterns. Thanks for clearing that up buddy. Gotta catch 'em all...

Didier: I'm just gonna put it out there, you look exactly like the dude from He Got Game. End of story, now that I got that off my chest, it's been a pleasure getting to know you while at Poynter. You're like Barry Bonds of sports checks--minus the whole steroids thing.

Martinez and Cheng: Don't think I forgot about you guys. Martinez, you can take a joke like none other, but you can also be funny when you do actually grace us with your input. Cheng, it's been an adventure but not one I'll soon forget. I look forward to hearing more from you in the future. If your ability to spell Dontrelle Willis is any indication of what's yet to come, you should have an awfully bright future ahead of you.

I look forward to hearing from each of you very soon. Sorry if I took up the whole page, but I had a lot to say. Until next time...

P.S. - To finally answer Leon's age old question: It always was Snoop Doggy Dog.

The Worldwide Leader in SNOOP DOGGY DOGG

Greetings from the Worldwide Leader in Sports,

Let me address Shemar first. This one's for you buddy:

OK. Now that I got that out of the way, let me say hi to all of the SJI family from ESPN in Bristol, Conn. Waking up at 7:45 every morning is, quite honestly, not the same without a trip to Poynter and a sports check looming. Unlike the rest of you, I'm at a purely desk job, working nine-hour days at the ESPN.com copy desk. Basically, I get to read ESPN.com all day before stuff actually goes on ESPN.com, so it's pretty cool to see all of the content before it comes out on the website. Sometimes I wish that I could be out, traversing the mountains of Denver or drinking the salty lakes of Utah in hopes that the one big scoop will come my way, but this isn't a bad alternative. It took alot of transitioning, though, especially since I had to learn all of the new computer programs pretty quickly in order to not fall back too behind.

ESPN, by the way, is massive. I'm talking like a 250-question sports check massive (were it converted into cubic feet and man power, of course). When I thought about ESPN in the past, usually it was from a strictly editorial sense, because that was what I wanted to do. I saw the anchors, the editors and the writers. But the majority of the interns here aren't on that side. Most are on the production side of things, like splicing video clips and preparing them for SportsCenter. Two of my roommates are on the research side of things and other interns are dealing with human resources, internal communications, technology or even sales. The sheer manpower that goes into this company is absolutely insane.

But the perk is that famous people just casually walk by my desk every day. Jamal Mashburn was a frequent visitor to my building on the first day and Chad Ford recorded his personal voicemail greeting just in front of my cubicle today. Want to get some food? Sure, sit next to Adam Schefter. (Incidentally, they're called "The Talent" here at ESPN.) Exciting right? Cookies for Prewitt!

By far the highlight of my first week, though, was going into an editorial meeting on my first day. There, all of the assignment editors went through their stuff to alert dot-com and the front page staff about the day's big news. And, of course, representatives from all of the ESPN local sites were present (via phone).

Need I say anymore? I e-mailed him later in the day telling him that I was present in that meeting, and Mr. Carter sent me back a response saying "WHY DIDN'T YOU SAY HI?" But with 14 exclamation points instead of one. I think he misses us. Why else would he keep telling us to vote on the back page headlines? To drive up traffic? No...

Keep informing the world, friends. I know you're all killing it across the country.