Shameless self-promotion by promotion

You may notice a new link under those I claim to "Know and Love". That's right, it's my first link to someone I don't actually know in person. Brian Murphy writes an outstanding daily sports journal on ESPN.com called The Daily Quickie, which chronicles the previous day's events in the world of sports. We don't share the same opinions on a good many topics, and I'm envious about his having my dream job, but he's great writer, and I do my best to catch the site before I head to lunch.

In this morning's edition, he mentioned that he'd do something nice for those folks who posted a link to the Quickie on our blog, so here it is. Honestly, it doesn't even matter if it's just a mass-produced email; maybe this will get me back to blogging on sports (sorry, Laura). Who knows, maybe with this inspiration, my writing will get out of this box -- what'd'ya think, Brian? You can get me a guest column on Page 2, right?