Judging from my recent web counts, Bob Hunter's mention of my project in his column has this week caused some new folks to hit this site. Welcome! If you are a newbie I have been at this project awhile and there are two quick ways to understand what I am doing. First, use the slide bar to the right and scroll down to my first post, April 9 2007, titled New Season - New Look. Reading from the bottom up will give you some background in what's gone before.

To get a better sense though of what I am about and how I have operated to put this collection of stores together, click on the Samples Tab at the top and the Trolling for Stories link in the right. 27 Hours in the Life of a Shoe Salesman will unveil to you what I have spent the last three seasons doing to gather the material that is making up this book.

Welcome to my site and I hope you become a repeat reader to follow my progress. Normally this is a slow time for posts because there are not a lot of football happenings until the pace picks up with fall camp. But with some new readers, and some new announcements coming forth from me, I will make some extra effort to put new material on here in the next few weeks. Next up will be some more thoughts on my recent interview with Coach Tressel, and then some insight into Nebraska coming into the Big Ten.

Hope to see you back and as always, Go Bucks!

Steve