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Take Twitter to the Game -- Live Week 1 Football Scores
News
The News-Reviews previews Roseburg and other area team, and looks at new league alignments.
A sad story all the way around. Dirk Knudsen reports that Valley Christian, a Washington 1B team, will be dropping football in 2010. In 2009, a Valley Christian player died following a game injury.
The Swank family of Spokane, Washington lost their son Drew last year as a result of the injuries he suffered on the football field.
At Valley Christian where he played his loss appears to have created too big of a chasm.
One they can not overcome at least this year.
Citing the fact that they did not have enough participation to field a team the administration announced yesterday that the school would not field a team this year.
Drew lost his life to a Traumatic Brain Injury he suffered last season while playing in an early season road game againstperennial powerhouse LaCrosse-Washtucna.
I probably have no hope in keeping up with all of the prep previews that will roll out between today and tomorrow, but the Daily News’ caught my eye this morning.
And much, much more. Take a look.
The Columbian has a full slate of team previews this morning on their preps page, and a visit to LaCenter’s practices on their blog.
Link dump starts… now.
New St. Mary’s coach Young inherits solid group
Illinois Valley buoyed by change of scenery
A New Challenge (Cascade Christian)
Quick link dump of team previews from the Skagit Herald.
A small housekeeping note to mention that we’ve updated Washington teams with their 2010 classifications. If you notice something amiss, please let us know at statewidestats@gmail.com .
The Bethel Braves arrive today in Midland, TX to play the Permian Panthers. Yes, those Permian Panthers. Ironically, the Bethel-Permian game will be played not on Friday night, but on Thursday at 5:30PM.
Doug Pacey has the rest of the story.
When the Bethel Braves football teams step off the plane this afternoon at Midland International Airport, two days before they play Permian High School, they’ll come face to face with their first opponent: the oppressive West Texas heat.
“It’s going to be hot, we know that,” said quarterback Justin Hordyk, acknowledging that game-time temperatures will be around 90 degrees.
To combat the heat, Braves coach Gavin Kralik said each player will be given a one-gallon jug to fill with water and drink throughout the day to keep hydrated. The heat, of course, is just one of the many obstacles Bethel must overcome as it prepares to face one of the most famous high school football teams in the country. Permian High School of Odessa, Texas, was the subject of Buzz Bissinger’s best-selling book Friday Night Lights. Bissinger’s book later spawned a blockbuster movie and television show of the same name.
Read more: http://www.thenewstribune.com/2010/08/31/1321669/west-texas-bound.html?storylink=twt#ixzz0yCKPGn4t
Permanent of the widget for this site at www.statewidestats.com/twitterscores.php
2010 Update: In interest of keystroke economy, below is the copy & paste from the original #wabfscores mission statement. With our expanded coverage into Oregon, those scores can be found on #orfbscores . Read below the jump for the details.
Visit the WashingtonPreps message boards beginning at about 7:00 on a fall Friday night, and the most common thread is “Hey, score update for game X?” There used to be a site that would update all state scores throughout the night, but it has since gone away. The major newspapers—Everett Herald, TNT, Seattle Times, Spokesman, YakHerald, B-Herald, Olympian, etc—do a varying job throughout the night updating scores in their readership area. But one must visit each to get scores.
I am not a huge Twitter fan. I am seldom interested in what I might be doing at a given moment, and I can’t summon the hubris to foist that minutae upon others. However, I think Twitter is great as a mini-news service, brief and immediate, accessible from all sorts of devices, including the multitude of cell phones in the hands of those in the stands.
I’m proposing an ad-hoc Twitter network of Friday, and Thursday and Saturday, night scores throughout Washington. I have no idea if this is an original idea, but it’s new to me. Twitter has a feature called hashtags, keywords prefaced by “#” that Twitter uses for tracking topics. I am suggesting a common, easy format for people to post scores using the hash, “#wafbscores”. For instance, this coming Friday, I will be at Meridian vs. Squalicum, so I might Twitter a score update as follows:
“#wafbscores Mer 7 Squalicum 7 1st quarter”
More Twitter magic comes into play with the simple embedding of a hashtag widget that updates Tweets in the #wafbscores topic in real-time.
You can grab the code below and embed on your own site.
<div id="twtr-search-widget"></div>
<script src="http://widgets.twimg.com/j/1/widget.js"></script>
<link href="http://widgets.twimg.com/j/1/widget.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet">
<script> new TWTR.Widget({ search: '#wafbscores',
id: 'twtr-search-widget', loop: true, title: 'Take Twitter to the Game',
subject: 'Friday Night Scores', width: 250, height: 300, theme: { shell: {
background: '#00070a', color: '#ffffff' },
tweets: { background: '#ffffff', color: '#444444', links: '#1985b5' } } }).render().start();
</script>
This widget will be pinned to the front page of Statewide Stats throughout the game weekend, and we’ll be encouraging others to include on their sites as well.
Please spread the word, tweet this, get the word out. I’ll be contact journalists to promote as well.
Later in the season, we’ll play around with some further processing to turn team abbreviations into full team names with links, i.e. “Mer” to “Meridian (1a)“.
By the way, we are on Twitter at StatewideStats.
WAPrepSports.net has photos posted from the four-way scrimmage this past weekend between KR, KL, CK and Auburn.
