YMAKMA (you may also know me as)

My work outside of VBlue isn’t entirely Michigan. I focus more on my day-to-day life, including umpiring, college baseball in general (including my drafts for posts here), and random thoughts on links from my GoogleReader shared feed.

Speaking of that feed, you’ll notice a few key interests of mine. I’d separate my feed into the following categories: National news (NY Times/Houston Chronicle), Texas Politics, technology news, internet news, oil & energy news, New Scientist/Popular Science magazines, The Economist, and The New Yorker. Sometimes if it’s funny or insightful enough, it may be sports related.

HICTVB (how I came to varsityblue)

Paul and I go back to the days when I was a student at Michigan. I dropped out after two consecutive semesters on probation. At the rate things were going, I needed a change to get me back and motivated. Now I’m back in school in the Houston area, going to classes full time and umpiring for cash on the side. I had been doing fanposts at Maizenbrew beginning with the Big10 Tourney in 2008, and started previews there. Paul asked a special and particular favor, and I felt obliged to honor his request.

Baseball Links:

• Big-Ten-Blogger’s Feed (mainly for football, a few do cover baseball)
• BigTenHardball
• BaseballAmerica College Blog
• TheCollegeBaseballBlog.com
• BigTenNetwork Baseball Stories (video highlights are worthless)
• BigTen.org Baseball News
• CollegeBaseball360
• NCAA Baseball News
• Omaha Sky
• The College Baseball Examiner
• CollegeBaseballToday.com (One of the greats in college baseball coverage, but he lacks an RSS feed with bugs the crap out of me)
• Boyd’s World (he starts RPI coverage in a few weeks…hopefully)

Michigan Only Links:

• MGoBlue.com Baseball (obviously)
• mgobluebooth@umich.edu (How to email the radio announcer during games… he’s also the Assistant Sports Information Director for baseball)
• The Captain’s Corner Blog
• Weekly Press Releases

For BigTen teams:

• Buckeye Nine (Ohio State)
• Happy Valley Hardball (Penn State)
• Black Shoe Diaries (Penn State)
• Inside Pitch (Indiana)
• Illinois Baseball Report (formerly the Baseball Zealot)
• The Daily Gopher (Minnesota)
• Hammer and Rails (Purdue, they’re new and haven’t really started the coverage yet, but I’m told its coming after basketball ends)

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