WorldNow, KXXT Waco Turn to MaxPreps Widget

The WorldNow media company continues to go to bat for its clients in the area of prep sports coverage, using, of course, the MaxPreps.com widget. This one comes to us from KXXT-TV News Channel 25 in Waco, Texas:

http://tinyurl.com/yfaxfxv


WorldNow lists among its other clients CBS Radio, Media General and Cox.

SuperTalk Mississippi Backs Up Talk With MaxPreps Widget

For over 30 years, TeleSouth Communications, Inc. has been providing high-quality broadcast services to listeners throughout the Southeast. With properties such as SuperTalk Network, Mississippi News Network, Southern Urban Network and Collegiate Sports, TeleSouth Communications is poised to deliver solid results.

For its network of eight talk radio stations in Mississippi - the SuperTalk Network - new media director Bob Sullender is using the MaxPreps.com Data Widget to deliver listener-specific content to each of those eight market:

http://www.supertalk.fm/pages/4992478.php

MaxPreps Widget Has Western Colorado Covered

The Daily Sentinel has been western Colorado's chronicle of record since 1893. Published in Grand Junction, Co., the newspaper is western Colorado's largest and is distributed throughout a vast geographical area ranging from the Wyoming border on the north, to Red Mountain Pass and the San Juan Mountain range to the south, Moab and Grand County, Utah, to the west and Glenwood Springs and Aspen's Roaring Fork River valley to the east.

To help cover the 35 high schools in its vast circulation area, the Daily Sentinel uses the MaxPreps widget:

http://www.gjsentinel.com/sports/content/sports/

MaxPreps.com Widget a Hit With Massachusetts Volleyball

The Massachusetts Girls Volleyball Coaches Association is open to all high school girls coaches in the state. This includes varsity, junior varsity, freshman and assistant coaches. The MGVCA also attracts coaching memberships from other states throughout the country, chiefly due to the extensive video lending library that it maintains.

To keep track of statistics in Massachusetts, the MGVCA uses the MaxPreps data widget:

http://www.mgvca.org/index.html

San Diego Local News Powered by MaxPreps Widget

The San Diego News Network is a major regional news and information website in San Diego County. It offers a broad range of hyper-local content from a variety of sources, including a full-time staff of contributing editors, freelance writers, bloggers, and a consortium of media partners.

MaxPreps.com is one of its media partners, and the MaxPreps' data widget delivers to SDNN viewers the complete content of all high school football in the area:

www.sdnn.com/sandiego/sports

Road to Syracuse Driven By MaxPreps.com Widget

John Moriello was always ahead of the crowd when he worked for the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle in the 1980s and 1990s, taking high school sports coverage to unprecedented levels while helping usher in the digital age of prep coverage for newspapers.

Now Moriello, president of the New York State Sportswriters Association, has taken the Empire State football beat to another level with his new and rapidly-growing Road to Syracuse site:

http://www.roadtosyracuse.com/

WDBJ-TV Blankets Southwestern Virginia With MaxPreps Widget

WDBJ-TV in southwestern Virginia began broadcasting in the Mountain Trust Bank Building in downtown Roanoke, when the station first signed on the air in 1955. Today, in addition to its relatively new Hershberger Road facility and the Poor Mountain transmitter site, WDBJ 7 operates local newsrooms in Lynchburg , Blacksburg and Richmond.

The station's web site, operated in conjunction with the WorldNow media company, maintains individual team web sites for 61 high school football programs in its coverage area by deploying a separate MaxPreps widget on each page. Its main landing page for prep sports is called the WDBJ-7 Friday Football Extra:


http://www.wdbj7.com/Global/category.asp?C=142512

MaxPreps Helps KUSI News Stay Local

KUSI 9 News in San Diego is the rarest of the rare, a true independent television station competing with nine network affiliates (including Spanish language stations and PBS). Its independence allows KUSI to be 100 percent local, able to break at any time for important news stories.

Already more than 7 1/2 hours a day are dedicated to local news on weekdays, and 4 1/2 hours a day on weekends. Plus, KUSI features live newsbreaks every hour between newscasts, so viewers are never more than thirty minutes away from the latest breaking news stories.

On the web, the station stays local, too, with its high school sports coverage, using the MaxPreps widget:

http://www.kusi.com/ppr/stats

MaxPreps.com Widget Crosses State Lines in MI, IN

CBS television station WSBT 22 in Mishawaka, Ind., has found a dynamic way to utilize the MaxPreps.com data widget in covering schools in both Indiana and Michigan.

Its web site displays a primary 40-team football module on its "Friday Night Fever" page, then dedicates another section to the 13 schools in its core coverage area, with each school boasting its own widget:

http://www.wsbt.com/sports/59054667.html

http://www.wsbt.com/younews?schools=main

Comcast Southeast Has It All Covered With MaxPreps.com Widgets

Comcast Southeast Sports has put together a nice package of high school coverage over seven states - AL, FL, GA, MS, SC, TN and TX - using the MaxPreps data widget:

http://www.csssports.com/pages/highschool

WGXA-TV Reaches out in Central Georgia With MaxPreps.com Widget

WGXA-TV, Fox 24 in Macon, Ga., airs Middle Georgia's only Primetime newscast, FOX 24 News at 10 p.m. They also offer the only show in Middle Georgia that gives viewers a voice in local news, politics and more with The FOX Files.

To top it off, WGXA covers 50 high school football teams in the region using the MaxPreps' data widget:

http://www.fox24.com/sports/blitz

CBS, Fox Properties Introduce MaxPreps Widgets

The 2009 high school football season in the Northeast finally got started recently. A couple of prominent electronic media outlets in the region, KDKA-AM in Pittsburgh (CBS) and WPRI-TV Channel 12 in Providence (Fox) marked the opening and confirmed their commitment to high school sports by introducing the MaxPreps.com widget to help with their coverage:

http://www.kdkaradio.com/pages/5117239.php?

http://www.wpri.com/generic/sports/upcoming_hs_football_games

Erie On the Go in PA with MaxPreps.com Widget

When it comes to daily coverage of PIAA District 10 in far western Pennsylvania, no one does it better than the Erie Times-News and GoErie.com. Web content manager Dan Miller shows off his GoErie Varsity section here:
 
http://www.goerie.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=VARSITYCOVER

ABC Affiliate Knows the Value of Prep Data

Web manager Randy Klein at KTRK-TV in Houston is continuing his quest to provide the best in high school football coverage for the station’s web site, ABC13.com. To mark the opening of the 2009 season, Klein has ramped up ABC13’s content with a 126-school MaxPreps.com data widget:

http://tinyurl.com/n2ud43

Comcast Entertainment Partner in CO Deploys Widget

Ingrum Sports Production Network (ISPN) is a locally owned television production company based in Denver, Colorado. Partnering with Comcast Entertainment Television (CET), ISPN was launched in the fall of 2004. It specializes in local content, including over 120 annual productions of high school sporting events. From football to girls’ soccer, ISPN has showcased hundreds of schools and thousands of prep athletes in Colorado.

To further showcase those schools and athletes, ISPN has deployed the MaxPreps.com data widget:

http://www.ispn.tv/

Danville Voices Its Support for High School Football

Danville, Ill., is located in the East-Central portion of the state, near the Indiana state line. It’s within driving distance to some of the hottest destinations in the Midwest, including Chicago, Indianapolis and St. Louis. Danville is home to over 30,000 people, and is a highly desirable place to reside. It is also the home of radio stations WDAN-AM (1490) and K-Rock 94.9, which in turn are the home to local high school football with the MaxPreps.com widget:

http://vermilioncountyfirst.com/WDAN/2608934

http://vermilioncountyfirst.com/K-Rock/2608779

Charleston Post and Courier Preps for Season

Our good friends at the Charleston Post and Courier have redesigned their “Prep Zone” section for the 2009 fall season, and touched up their high school data feed service. For the latter, Zach Payer, Phil Bowman, et al have called upon the MaxPreps.com widget:

http://tinyurl.com/n8x3nq

Ohio Sites Continue to Roll With MaxPreps.com Widget

WOIO-TV, Channel 19 in Cleveland, is the latest media outlet in Ohio to pick up the MaxPreps data widget. The CBS affiliate is a World Now company:

http://www.woio.com/global/Category.asp?C=172666

Rush Is On In Prepping For Football Season

Television and radio stations were busy today preparing for the upcoming football season, which in many areas begins on Friday night.

First off, we have KOLR and KSFX in Springfield, Mo., showing off their new 60-school widget:

http://ozarksfirst.com/content/sports/sportsconnection

Then in Charlotte, N.C., WCNC News Channel 36 and WPEG-FM Power 98 are teaming up to both cover their area with the widget and promote their athlete of the week feature using MaxPreps.com data:

http://www.kiss951.com/Athlete-of-the-Week/2870324

http://www.power98fm.com/Power-98-s-High-School-Footbal-Player-of-the-Week/5007920

Computer Ace, Photographer Follows His Team Via Widget

Steve Sandel operates a computer repair business and photography studio in Alameda, Calif. He is also a big El Cerrito football fan and shows his team colors via the MaxPreps’ widget:

http://www.sandelcentral.com/football.html

Granite State a Rock of Stability with Widget

MaxPreps New Hampshire/Vermont columnist Roger Brown is also the editor and publisher of the New Hampshire Football Report, a web site that covers both high school and college football in the Granite State.

To deliver the latest scores, standings and statistical leaders from the state’s 55 high school football program, Mr. Brown relies on the MaxPreps.com Data Widget:

http://www.nhfootballreport.com/nh-standings.htm

SportsMaryland.com Sports Maxpreps Widget

Owner Kevin Lynch of SportsMaryland.com has a lot on his plate. In addition to providing a wide variety of prep video services throughout the state of Maryland, he hosts a weekly high school show on ESPN Radio 1300 in Baltimore.

Lynch can’t do everything himself – try as he may – so he allows the MaxPreps widget to aggregate data for the news section of his SportsMaryland web site. He has over 360 schools included in the package:

http://www.baltimoremetrosports.com/section/sports_news

Mississippi Governing Body Calls Upon MaxPreps Widget

The great folks at the Mississippi High School Activities Association recently had us into their offices on Raymond/Clinton Road in Clinton, Miss., and they could not have been more hospitable.

Executive Director Dr. Ennis Proctor; Development Director Phyfa Eiland, et al are strong believers in a state-wide program for populating statistical data on their teams. They have thus chosen the MaxPreps data widget to help meet their needs, drawing schedules, results, standings and leaderboards for over 250 schools.

http://www.misshsaa.com/

Deep In the Heart Of…Texas Coaches Adopt MaxPreps Widget

Big state, big widget.

Nothing is ever done minimally in Texas.

The Texas Association of basketball Coaches has rolled out data service for all of its nearly 1,600 member schools, backed by the work of webmaster Jennifer Thomas:

http://www.tabchoops.org/

With approximately 3,200 teams represented on this Maxpreps.com data widget, the TABC module can now boast more content for a single-sport widget than any in existence.

Colorado Daily Adds MaxPreps Data Service

The Times-Call of Longmont, Colo., covers 11 schools in the Boulder County region:

http://www.timescall.com/sports-prep/

MaxPreps.com Joins the Huddle in Ohio

Since becoming the first web site in Ohio dedicated to prep sports on a state-wide basis, JJHuddle.com has been the online destination for Ohio high school sports fans.

Now it's the destination, too, for those seekling stats on Ohio teams.

Managing Editor Eric Frantz and his team at JJ Huddle will be featuring the CBS MaxPreps Data Widget for nearly 900 schools and 5,300 varsity teams during the 2009-10 school year:

http://tinyurl.com/moplts

With over 100,000 registered members, JJHuddle prides itself on being a news and informational leader. Throughout the year, Huddle writers and photographers bring viewers the best in media coverage on a regular basis. Website articles include game stories, features, columns, previews, photo galleries and more. MaxPreps.com will help power that coverage.

Buckeye State Loves its Football

The Ohio High School Football Coaches Association is one of the biggest prep organizations in the country, sporting 728 members in one of the nation's top football-playing states.

What better way to celebrate its status and show its colors than by building and utilizing a 728-school MaxPreps data widget:

http://www.ohsfca.org/startup.htm

MaxPreps Michigan Module Makes Midwest Communications Go

Jared Stout, a marketing consultant for Midwest Communications in Kalamazoo, Mich., is a major proponent of covering high school sports on the radio. In addition to his marketing and program duties at 1660 The Fan, he is also the play-by-play voice of live prep sports in southwestern Michigan.


To make his coverage complete, Stout has developed a MaxPreps data widget for The Fan: http://www.1660thefan.com/stationfiles/blog/scores/; he will be adding another module to a new site at Midwest Communications that will bring together content from both 1660 The Fan and WKZO in Kalamazoo.

MaxPreps Widgets are a 4-A Success in South Carolina

The South Carolina Basketball Coaches Association has developed a unique way to display schedules, results and statistics for its entire membership, creating MaxPreps data widgets for each of its four size classifications and carrying boys’ and girls’ teams together in each. This also shows the ability of widget to display and generate data within the Home Team Online hosting environement:

http://tinyurl.com/nlz6bv

NCFCA Adds MaxPreps Data Module

The North Carolina Football Coaches Association was organized and constituted in July of 1990. It has since grown to represent coaches in all of the state’s eight districts, and sports a membership of 357 schools.

Webmaster David Grose of the Cleveland County School system and NCFCA secretary Jim Taylor have added the MaxPreps data widget to help service their members:

http://www.ncfca.net/

MaxPreps Widget Delivers Data for 462 Schools in Central IL

MaxPreps field rep Frank Steele has done it again. When they’re not dodging thunderstorms and tornados in central Illinois, they’re following 462 of Chairman Frank’s schools on SportsRadio1450, WFMB-AM, Springfield:

http://www.sportsradio1450.com/pages/pages.php?page=21

Neighborhood Group Follows Local School With Widget

The Phoenix Central Neighborhood Association in Arizona was created in August, 2008, by Alton J. Jones. His goal was to begin a dialogue with residents, property owners and business owners within the geographical boundaries of Indian School and Thomas Roads and 7th Avenue and 3rd Street about business, crime, education, entertainment, politics, sports and transportation.

To enhance the dialogue about prep sports and its local high school – also named Phoenix Central – the web site has created and activated a one-school, five-sport MaxPreps’ data module:

http://www.phoenixcentral.org/Sports.html

This is the first neighborhood-based web site to use the widget, another example of the expanding role of citizen journalism and reporting.

FCIAC Blog Returns; MaxPreps Widget Joins the Team

The FCIAC Football Blog ( http://fciacfootballblog.com ) was long a staple in Fairfield (Conn.) County prep coverage before its founder and publisher, Tim Parry, opted to shut down his operation last year.

Parry’s entertaining and information-filled blog is back, however, just in time for the first game of 2009, the June 27 Connecticut vs Rhode Island senior all-game in East Hartford. He’ll be working in cooperation with the county’s four Hearst Corporation daily newspapers in Bridgeport, Danbury, Greenwich and Stamford.

To help celebrate the blog’s return and to keep readers up to date with the latest scores, standing and statistics, Parry has deployed a 37-team MaxPreps data widget:

http://fciacfootballblog.com/

Kansas Pregame Transitioning to the Web With MaxPreps Widget

After three years of publishing Kansas Pregame, the state's premiere preseason football print magazine, John Baetz and wife, Bree McReynolds-Baetz, have made the leap to the web with their recently-launched site KansasPregame.com.

The site's goal is to be nothing less than the complete source for football information in the state of Kansas.

What better way to deliver complete data on all 355 football-playing schools in the state than through the commissioning of the MaxPreps data widget:

http://www.kansaspregame.com/web/isite.dll?1220492325951

For more information about Kansaspregame.com, please email john@kansaspregame.com or call them at (785) 524-6019.

LA Extra: MaxPreps Widget Carries Weight in San Gabriel

The San Gabriel Valley Tribune, based in West Covina, Calif., faces a daunting task every day in trying to cover all of the pro teams in the Los Angeles area, plus a variety of colleges and 30 high schools.

To make it's job easier and more comprehensive in the latter category, this Media News Group newspaper uses the MaxPreps widget to maintain a robust flow of prep data in five core sports:

http://www.sgvtribune.com/preps

Booster Club Backs Teams With MaxPreps Widget

The Clayton Valley Boosters Club of Concord, Calif., has long served as an advocacy group to support the student-athletes of Clayton Valley High School. The CVHS booster's organization believes that a significant part of the high school experience involves the ability to participate either as a player or a fan in prep athletic events. It believes that high school sports programs do more for a school than simply provide an outlet for youthful enthusiasm. They build teamwork, enhance self-esteem and provide a focus for pride in the school.

To help show its pride in CVHS athletics, the booster club is showing off the MaxPreps data widget on the home page of its web site:

http://www.cvhsboosters.org/

Texans Tab Cushing; Bergen Catholic Tabs MaxPreps Widget

Bergen Catholic High in Oradell, N.J., had plenty to celebrate recently, when one of its former players, Brian Cushing, was selected in the first round of the NFL draft by the Houston Texans.

Cushing, a 2005 Bergen Catholic graduate, is a 6-foot-3, 245 pound outside linebacker from Park Ridge, N.J., who played his college football at USC. He was the 15th pick overall.

Bergen Catholic, a 16-time state champion, also has a new football website to help consolidate team news. To help deliver data on the team and over 100 other football teams in North Jersey, the web site utilizes the MaxPreps.com data widget:

http://www.bergencatholicfootball.com/

Taking the MaxPreps Widget to School

Due to popular demand, here’s a snap shot from around the nation of high schools that are using the data widget on their home sites:

Barron Collier High, FL

http://www.collier.k12.fl.us/bch/

Valencia, CA High

http://www.collier.k12.fl.us/bch/

Northern Virginia Christian Academy

www.nvchristianacademy.org (select athletics)

Bath County, KY High

http://www.bath.k12.ky.us/

Evangel Christian, Shreveport

http://www.evangelacademy.com/Athletics/index.php

Gold Beach, OR

http://www.ccsd.k12.or.us/goldbeachhs/site/default.asp

Estero, FL High

http://est.leeschools.net/

Black River High, Holland, MI

http://www.blackriverpublicschool.org/sports.shtml

Lowry NV

http://www.humboldt.k12.nv.us/lhs/

Wayne, NY

http://wayne.k12.ny.us/football/

PIAA Rolls Out Record MaxPreps Widget

One of our newest state governing body partners, the sprawling Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association, has just set up the largest MaxPreps.com data widget on record, over 850 schools covering seven sports:

http://www.piaa.org/news/details.aspx?ID=1666

Records, however, are made to be broken. Ohio is next in line. That should move the needle past the 900 school mark shortly. Stay tuned.

MaxPreps Widget…Twice as Nice in Kansas City

The Greater Kansas City Football Coaches Association brings a unique element to the business of regional high school sports promotion and management; that is, it operates in two states.

It also operates with the power of a 112-school MaxPreps.com data widget, one that went live today and features teams from both the Kansas City, Missouri, and Kansas City, Kansas, areas.

Many thanks go to the head of the GKCFCA, Brian Johnson, who helped make this association deal possible. Terri Wible of the Marvel Group, LLC put the final touches on the data feed for the GKCFCA web site.

Johnson, when he is not helping promote high school football in the Greater Kansas City area, is the Sponsorship Sales Manager of the Kansas City Chiefs.

http://www.kcprepfootball.org/

http://www.kcprepfootball.org/stats.html

Chicago Football League Remakes Itself

The 70-member Chicago Public League Football Coaches Association has a new address, a new web design and a sparkling new MaxPreps’ data widget on its home page, thanks to the work of Illinois territory manager Frank Steele:

http://www.cplfca.com/

MSABC Endorses MaxPreps Data Feed in Big Way

You could say the Maryland State Association of Baseball Coaches has stepped to the plate and swung for the fences concerning MaxPreps' Widget deployment.

The MSABA, headed by DeMatha coach Sean O'Connor, has installed a widget on its web site that includes all 213 baseball-playing members, public and private. What's more, O'Connor has sent out a letter to membership that encourages coach participation in the stat program:

http://www.marylandbaseball.org/max.htm

The purpose of MSABC and its web site is to improve the game of baseball in Maryland. Among the association’s featured activities this season is the MSABC Classic, two nine-inning all-star games scheduled for May 24 at Thomas Stone High. The games will be used to select the two teams that will compete in the Brooks Robinson Senior All-Star game, sponsored by the Geier Financial Group, June 10 at Camden Yards, following an Orioles’ game.

Kansas Takes a Unique Approach to Data Service

It’s good to have people in high places.

MaxPreps.com Kansas territory manager Randy Walling is presently serving as executive director of the Kansas Basketball Coaches Association. Through Randy’s work and the work of a former coach in the state, KBCA web content manager Tom Smith, the association is developing MaxPreps’ syndication service covering every basketball team in Kansas, both boys and girls.

In a unique approach to implementing the data feeds, the KBCA will deploy a total of 12 MaxPreps.com content widgets, one for each of the six size classifications (times two) in Kansas:

http://www.kansaskbca.com/2008%3A09/maxwidgets.html

Spring into Spring: Mid Valley Oregon Adding Service

The Albany Democrat-Herald is a Lee Enterprise publication that serves the Mid Valley region of Oregon, boasting a daily circulation of 17,500. Online editor Graham Kislingbury had a 16-school MaxPreps data feed in play during the basketball season (select basketball from the pulldown) http://www.democratherald.com/sports/prep/# and is currently working on the development of a spring module.

Lax to the Max: LaxLessons.com Drawing MaxPreps Data Feed

When former Somers (NY) High and Loyola of Maryland stars Jordan and Ryan Rabidou conceived the idea of LaxLessons.com, their goal was simple: to provide the most useful and up-to-date instructional information available for lacrosse coaches in New York and Connecticut.

The site, however, is already taking its operation to the next level. In addition to useful and timely content for coaches, LaxLessons.com is now providing the same type of material for players and fans alike.

In the players' section, there are reports on the latest recruiting news. For fans, LaxLessons.com has introduced daily news updates (including a special "Today's Top 5" feature) as well as interviews with players and coaches at all levels of lacrosse.

Joe Lombardi, the former local sports editor of the Journal News in White Plains and the region’s top lacrosse expert, is contributing news updates, stories and interviews, and is the author of the brand-new "Lax with Joe" blog, which covers Fairfield, Westchester, Putnam, Rockland, Nassau and Suffolk counties.

The site was launched earlier this month. Today, its 110-school lacrosse data feed from MaxPreps.com went live:

http://laxlessons.com/blog/schedules/

http://www.laxlessons.com/

Tallahassee Baseball Highlighted by MaxPreps.com Widget

The high school baseball season is underway in North Florida. Tallahassee Chiles got off to a fast start last week in its opener with a 15-0 victory against Tallahassee Godby.

Chiles is using Home Team Online to host its baseball program website and webmaster Rob Murrell has a MaxPreps.com widget on the main index page that covers all of 5A District 2:

www.chilesbaseball.com

Fledgling DVAL Turns to the MaxPreps.com Widget

The Diablo Valley Athletic League (DVAL) is a one-year-old association of seven California schools in the Concord-Pleasant Valley-Walnut Creek corridor, just northeast of Oakland. Its membership is comprised by Berean Christian, Clayton Valley, College Park, Concord, Mt. Diablo, Northgate and Ygnacio Valley.

League webmaster Christine Bailey liked the MaxPreps widget so much that she wanted to add soccer coverage to her lineup of syndicated sports, only to learn that soccer is not yet an option. You can be sure MaxPreps’ senior programmer Ken Singh has dutifully taken note of this enthusiasm for a non-core sport.

http://www.diabloval.com/Index.html

Law Coach Takes on New Project - and MaxPreps Widget

In some baseball circles, Dennis Sweeney is known as one of the guys at Seton Hall University who in 1990 replaced legendary first baseman and slugger Maurice “Mo” Vaughn, who had just been drafted by the Boston Red Sox.

But Sweeney was actually drafted by the Minnesota Twins in 1991 as a pitcher after spending much of his collegiate career as a right fielder. He later began a teaching and coaching career at Jonathan Law High School in Milford, Conn., a career that culminated last spring in a CIAC Class L baseball championship.

Sweeney is now involved in a new project with a number of former professional players, a web site that will serve as a baseball resource and teaching tool of the highest order. The accomplished participants in this project seek to share their time and knowledge to provide a wealth of baseball information and to promote the sport by encouraging player development and enhancing the overall experience.

The test site for Fundamentals Plus is here:

http://www.fundamentalsplus.com/preview/090210/

In the meantime, Sweeney’s Law baseball team is preparing for its state title defense with a new MaxPreps.com widget on its web site, one that the coach created to include all teams on his 2009 schedule:

http://lawbaseball.com/SCCPAGE.html

Widgets Aren't Just for High School Sites

We’ve obviously seen plenty of high school sports web sites in our widget travel throughout the nation. But this may be a first – a middle school basketball web site.

Grover Washington, Jr Middle School won the 2007 Philadelphia city boys’ title and maintains a League Lineup site to keep fans abreast of its latest developments. Coach John Creighton also deploys a MaxPreps.com widget to follow former players who have moved onto high schools such as Philadelphia Roman Catholic, Neumann & Goretti and Cardinal Dougherty.

http://www.leaguelineup.com/welcome.asp?url=groverwashingtonjazz

Ladies Explore Data Management with MaxPreps Widget

The Hudson, Ohio, LadyExplorers – yes, it’s one word – will take a 10-7 record into Saturday night’s game against Elyria (15-3). We know this, of course, because Hudson has a MaxPreps.com widget on its web site:

http://www.ladyexplorersbasketball.com/

What’s more, the Hudson site has a high-functioning video player on the front page of its site, one that plays the team’s most recent highlights. It’s difficult to believe Hudson has lost seven games after viewing this footage, especially with the play of the big girl, Hannah Jones, up front. It just goes to show how competitive girls’ basketball is in Ohio.

Illinois Sports Hall Calls MaxPreps.com Widget

The Springfield, Ill., Sports Hall of Fame is busy planning for its 19^th-annual banquet and awards ceremony at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Springfield. St. Louis University men’s basketball coach Rick Majerus, who has won more than 400 games and also has served as a television color and studio analyst, will be the featured speaker at the April 7 event.

Despite all the activity, Hall of Fame webmaster Joe Williams made the time to create this 21-school, all-sports widget to serve the greater Springfield area:
 

http://www.springfieldsportshalloffame.com/sports.html 

Please visit the Hall of Fame here.

Texas Gulf Site Goes All Out With MaxPreps Widget

The Texas web site 956Sports.com covers nearly 50 schools in Brownsville/Texas Gulf area (you can not go to college in the Longhorn…I mean Lone Star… State and not have gone to Padre Island at least once during Spring Break.

Anyway, a good friend of Sam Ritter’s, Jake Berry, owns and operates 956Sports.com and has widgets in play for football, boys’ and girls’ basketball, and baseball.

Home Page:

http://956sports.com/

Boys’ Basketball Page

http://956sports.com/?page_id=517

Please visit this outstanding site in one of Texas’ great sports areas.

Bird’s Eye Sports Two Mega-Widgets

Bird’s Eye Sports in Connecticut finally has its complete, state-wide coverage up and running for both boys’ and girls’ basketball. Owner/publisher Ben Talbott commissioned a couple of MaxPreps mega widgets earlier this week, including not only all schools and basketball teams in the CIAC but a number of private and boarding schools as well. Here is his 208-school girls’ module. I see three more mega widgets coming this spring for baseball, boys’ lacrosse and girls’ lacrosse.

http://www.birdseyesports.com/updates-stats.php?sportsId=12&&s=f

NJ High School Network, MaxPreps Widget Join Forces

We continue to be impressed with the growing number of regional high school sports web sites appearing on the Internet. Not only is quantity in evidence, but quality and depth of coverage is, too. Among the leaders in the Northeast in this burgeoning media category is the New Jersey-based operation run by Philip McRimmon, president of Kira Media Services in Upper Montclair, N.J.

Coverage was initially carried at www.njhotshots.com but has since moved to a new multi-media location, the New Jersey High School Network: http://www.njhssportsnetwork.com/

Mr. McRimmon has added a 114-school MaxPreps.com boys’ basketball widget to his publication, with more widgets to follow:

http://www.njhssportsnetwork.com/blogList.php

“We have established a pretty strong following over the years (45 to 50, 000 unique visitors per month) and our new platform allows us the opportunity to grow,” McRimmon said.

St. Louis-Area Grad Seeks to Inspire Through Website...and the MaxPreps Widget

Brianna Smith graduated from high school just two years ago, but already she is worldly enough to realize that something vital was missing from the St. Louis-area prep scene, particularly for the young student-athletes who help make up the community.

So she started the web site Scope St. Louis:

"This site is based around three main principles: Motivate, Educate and Inspire," says Smith.

"I hope that through this site, more teens will realize how much potential they have and find the motivation to follow all of their passions. Hopefully we will be able to educate each other on the topics that they care about the most so that we can all understand more about the world we live in and about each other.

"Last of all," she adds, "I hope that with this site we can inspire others to follow their passions, find new passions, realize they can do anything they set their mind to, and to help everyone to realize that the teens of St. Louis are the ones who will change the city the most so everyone better take us seriously!"

And what would inspiration be without a 67-school, six-sport MaxPreps widget for Scope St. Louis?

http://www.scopestl.com/dotnetnuke/Sports/tabid/117/Default.aspx

Central California Stakes its Claim

NorCal and SoCal play for fame and glory. CenCal plays for pride and respect.

Or so the web site CenCalBallers.com claims.

Either way, CenCalBallers and webmaster Nathan East have a 68-school widget set up on their main index page.

http://www.cencalballers.com/

Retorts from the other regions are welcome.

Southern California School Making Inroads

Valencia High School, which is located in the Santa Barbara, Calif., area, is starting to close the gap with Baron Collier of Florida for the most poplar widget among school web sites. Valencia's all-sports widget is rapidly approaching the 40,000-views mark:

http://www.hart.k12.ca.us/valencia/

The Vikings' widget is displayed prominently on the home page.

UpMoves.com Moves with MaxPreps Widget

George Jefferson runs a varsity mentoring and marketing service for high schools athletes in North Carolina that covers the area from Winston-Salem and Greensboro in the central portion of the state down to Charlotte. His 117-school, five-sport MaxPreps.com widget appears on his home page, keeping viewers abreast of developments in football, volleyball, boys’ and girls’ basketball and baseball:

http://site.upmoves.com/

Upmoves.com also has an Internet television site where Jefferson posts high school sports-related video. Included in the TV section is a playlist of MaxPreps and Tom Lemming content:

http://www.upmoves.tv/

Barron Collier Tops 40,000 Mark with MaxPreps Widget

It was apparent from the start that the all-sports widget installed on the Barron Collier High home page in Naples, Fla., was going to be a hit.

No one, however, expected it to hit a home run.

After the PIAA District 6 football site jumped to the runaway lead in widget page views parade at the outset – quickly topping 30,000 –
Collier’s widget has not only overtaken the PIAA, it has become the first to surpass the 40,000 mark.

http://www.collier.k12.fl.us/bch/

Scott A. Stahl, a media specialist at Barron Collier and the creator of the school’s widget, said he isn’t sure why the product is so popular.

But he knows one thing.

“It gets a lot of exposure,” he said. “I have the widget on the front page of our school website. That page is the default home page for all computers in the school.”

Moore Means More of the MaxPreps Widget in NC

Few web sites in North Carolina cover a wider variety of pro, college and high school sports than Don Moore’s Greensboro Sports.

You have to love a web site that in the dead of winter and in the thick of the pro and college basketball seasons leads its main section with the Major League Soccer draft (eight Greensboro-area players, after all, were selected, including a good friend of MaxPreps, Herman Award-winner and Denmark-bound Marcus Tracy).

But we digress.

High school sports are a big part of the operation at Greensboro Sports and so, too, is the MaxPreps’ widget:

http://www.greensborosports.com/category/high-school/

Moore is a busy guy in the North Carolina Triad, working a full-time job during the day, running Greensboro Sports in his spare time and also operating a web and Internet-assistance firm aptly-named Don Can Help:

http://www.doncanhelp.com/

MaxPreps Widget Helps Honor the Late Dave Lewis

The website Coach Lewis was constructed to honor the work and memory of former Oakcrest, N.J., boys' basketball coach Dave Lewis, who died last summer of multiple myeloma, the blood cancer that attacks the bones, kidneys and immune system.

Lewis, who was 58, was honored recently prior to Oakcrest's 46-44 overtime win against Middle Township in Mays Landing. Among those who spoke at the ceremony was the coach who took over for Lewis, Frank Brown.

As part of the effort to honor Coach Lewis, his daughter, Rachel Chornomaz, has placed the MaxPreps.com Data Widget on the memorial’s home page:

http://www.coachlewis.org/

Please visit the site to learn more about Dave Lewis both on and off the court. Among other things, his church is involved in the construction of an orphanage in Uganda which will bear his name.

"(Lewis) was a real gentleman and an inspiration to all of us," Middle Township coach Tom Feraco told the Philadelphia Inquirer. "We watched him suffer, and he would never complain."

New MaxPreps' Photographer Moves Quickly to Install Widget

Daniel Hyravy, MaxPreps.com’s newest photographer in the Western Kentucky region, has only been with the company for a week but he already has a MaxPreps Data Widget working on behalf of his company web site, PixElite Photography:

http://www.pixeliteonline.com/MaxPreps_Team_Informatio.html

Please check out Daniel’s work both on MaxPreps’ Kentucky page and on his photo site, http://www.pixeliteonline.com/

PixElite Photography is a full service imaging company specializing in Sports Action, Team & Individual Portraits, Custom Posters, Event Photography, and Portraits.

Way to Go, Idaho...MaxPreps Widget in Boise

The Boise Timberline boys’ basketball team is right in the middle of the Southern Idaho 5A championship race, standing at 4-2 in the conference and 5-3 overall. That leaves the Wolves 1 ½ games behind the leader, Eagle High.

Timberline, however, stands in first place with the MaxPreps widget. The school’s athletic department web site is the first in the state to put the widget to use, building a 13-team boys’ basketball module that covers teams in both 4A and 5A.

http://www.wolvesathletics.com/viewTeamPage.html?id=80&content=standings

Many thanks go to Colonel John Goodale of the U.S. Army National Guard in Boise for putting this together.

Northeast Football Premiere (s) the MaxPreps Widget

Northeast Football Premiere (http://www.northeastfbpremiere.com/) is a web site Don Crouch set up a year and a half ago primarily as a resource for coaches that the organization works with through Varsity Gold, the Walter Camp Football Foundation and Evoshield. NFP also runs a couple of 7-on-7 shootouts during the year, and the site serves as a registration portal for those events. Clinics, weightlifting competitions and golf tournaments are on the annual agenda as well.

Don has begun the task of providing more thorough statistical data for visitors by setting up a MaxPreps.com football widget for his Connecticut page, one that includes every team in the state:

http://www.northeastfbpremiere.com/newsct.cfm

He will be adding other New England and Northeast state football widgets in the coming weeks.

Couch is also on the Board of Governors of the Walter Camp Football Foundation (http://www.waltercamp.org/).

MaxPreps Widget, WSLS-TV Join Forces

Congratulations to WSLS-TV, Channel 10 in Roanoke, Va., for creating one of the New Year’s first 50-plus school widgets! WSLS, a Media General-owned NBC affiliate that services the southwestern Virginia region, has deployed a 54-school widget for the winter season, covering both boys’ and girls’ basketball:

http://www.wsls.com/sls/sports/high_school/high_school_statistics

WSLS’s sports director is John Appicello, a two-time Mid-Atlantic Emmy Award winner. Appicello, a Pennsylvania native, has also been honored by the Associated Press for his TV work in five different states.