… D3football.com opened. I’m sure I’ve told this story before but I can’t find it, so I’m repeating it, here on 7-7-07.

This was kind of a risk for us to take in 1999. We — the Division III Basketball Online inner circle of myself, Ray Martel and Jim Stout — had a very successful and well-received men’s and women’s basketball site. But there was a Division III Football Online out there already, and we were kinda pushing into their territory. We’d tried to acquire that site, like we’d acquired the basketball site two years earlier, but it wasn’t for sale.

So we started our own, trying to collect football info as much under the radar as possible, though people eventually put two and two together. And on July 7, a Wednesday, we opened the virtual doors on both this site and the renamed D3hoops.com.

And 21.7 million front page views later, here we are. Since then, we’ve been working in two separate worlds, in a sense, and three with the opening of D3baseball.com this winter. But we’re working on that, in making all three sites more unified, in a way that will open the doors of the D3sports.com family to even more coverage and sharing of resources.

Our 2007 preseason coverage will begin in a matter of days. If you’ve taken the long offseason off, welcome back!