About Dan Satter
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Greetings!
Welcome to my recently completed Web page. I'm now accessible worldwide, thanks to blood, sweat, tears and carpal tunnel syndrome. Just kidding -- there were no tears. None I'll admit to, anyway.
Please allow myself to introduce ... myself. My name is Dan Satter. I'm a junior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill majoring in basketball, err, history and journalism and mass communication. I aspire to become a professional sports journalist, in either writing or broadcasting. In pursuit of that goal, I'm gaining as much experience as I can, which I hope my résumé indicates.
I grew up in Framingham, Mass., 35 minutes southwest of Boston. Framingham, formerly the largest town in America, is infamous for housing a heart study and Ken's Restaurant, creator of Ken's Salad Dressing. But I've only had their steaks, never a salad. Perhaps I'm a prime candidate for the heart study.
I am a diehard sports fan, especially of the Boston-area teams -- the Bruins, Celtics, Red Sox and Patriots (or, as we say back home, the B's, C's, Sahx and Pats). Now that I think about it, my heart might make for a good case-study; having had it broken each year by the Red Sox. But as we say every year at the start of every season: Maybe, just maybe, this year is the year ... |
Like brushing my teeth or taking a shower, hitting up Sportspages.com has become part of my morning routine. This page links readers to sports pages (so it's not just a clever name) from newspapers around the country. This is my personal favorite Web site because it provides not just sports information, but sports journalism.
The best Web site on the Internet for combining breaking sports news and cutting-edge analysis. CNNSI.com provides commentary by many writers from Sports Illustrated, including Rick Reilly and Alexander Wolff, two of my favorites.
A guy's got to remain loyal to his hometown newspaper, right? I grew up having breakfast with The Boston Globe sports page, reading Dan Shaughnessy, Bob Ryan, Peter Gammons, Peter May, Will McDonough and more. I'll argue anyone that The Globe has the best sports section in the country. The rest of the newspaper provides award-winning coverage as well. Oh, and the comics are good, too.
The end-all, be-all Web site for information about UNC-Chapel Hill athletics, GoHeels.com provides game stories, columns, recruiting news and more. (WARNING: A truly shameless self-promotion is approaching quickly.) I also think highly of the work done by the Web site's beat writer for UNC women's basketball and baseball.
Feeling down? Well, I believe that laughter truly is the best medicine, and no Web site is funnier than the onion.com. The articles are satirical farces of current news and life. It's quite challenging to be laugh-out-loud funny on paper (or the Internet), but the Onion's writers manage to pull it off consistently. |
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