After nearly 16 years in the Washington, D.C., metro area, I’m moving to Connecticut.
This move has been a long time coming. I’ve worked at USA Today for a dozen years now, mostly with Baseball Weekly/Sports Weekly, but starting later this month I’ll be taking a job at NBCSports.com.
Although I don’t fully yet know what days and nights of the week I’ll be working, you can assume that I’ll be showing up at games in and around the area.
What else does this mean for D3hoops.com? The site is not going away — shoot, D3hoops.com/D3football.com experience helped me get this job. But we’ll be relying on other people within the organization to do a little more on game nights, when I’m at work, in terms of doing the first updates on the front page, stuff like that. Our recently announced partnership with D3Scoreboard.com will help out as well, since it will improve our collection of scores as well as server performance.
The transition period might be a little rough, and there will be entire days where I am away from the computer, most likely. The job search also has contributed to the somewhat quiet nature of the blog this summer. We ask your patience. But yes, I do have a full-time job, and D3sports.com is not it. We have to pay the bills and feed the three kids, after all.
Congrats on your new job.
Congratulations, Pat. You are welcome to come farther into New England for a game any time.
Right on Pat. Are we any closer to seeing you on the air? You know we’re all hoping this “career” is just a secret plan to get national airtime, when you can break out in a rant about how much better d3 sports are than the crap people are watching right now.
Ok, “all” might be an exageration.
Congrats.
I add my congratulations as well, along with my best wishes for success at NBC and happiness in Connecticut.
Congrats, Pat, and best of luck with your new job.
“there will be entire days where I am away from the computer, most likely”
are you sure you won’t die 😛 😀 😉
I think the real question is… will you still feel the impulse to rearrange the newspaper racks? 😀
Hmm… now I will have to do my own research about which games are the best to go to when I’m home to visit the family during the holidays. 🙁
And lest I come off as not caring about the fact that you landed this job, let me offer my public congrats in addition to the ones I’ve already given. 🙂
Pat,
Congratulations on this long-awaited and well-deserved move.
Now try to remember not to touch the big blue orb prior to you departure from Gannett.
Best wishes,
C
Pat,
Congratulations on this long-awaited and well-deserved move.
Now try to remember not to touch the big blue orb prior to you departure from Gannett.
Best wishes,
C