Friday Night Lights in a city known for a different kind of lights
August 23, 2009
I have always had a soft spot in my heart for high school football.
Back in Kansas, I covered the Osage City Indians for my high school newspaper, The Pow Wow. Yes, it’s still called that, and no, it doesn’t have a proper Web site. 
I helped put myself through college at Emporia State University while writing football gamers for the newspaper I had wanted to work at since I was in the third grade — The Topeka Capital-Journal.
And once I got into “new media,” that love of high school sports continued. Sometimes the high school sports coverage …
Looking for interns for the Fall
August 11, 2009
This is basically a re-post of a blog that I wrote last Spring, and the reason for the re-post is simple: We’re looking for a few talented interns to join our team for the Fall and through the Winter.
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Greenspun Interactive is looking for interns who want to get real-world, practical experience with coverage of local news and business, and entertainment (yes, that means The Strip, the celebrity side of Las Vegas and our city’s crazy club scene).
What does that really mean? It means we’re looking for at least a couple of people to help us on the news side of …
UFC: Las Vegas’ major-league sports franchise
August 3, 2009
When our team at Greenspun Interactive was trying to figure out our sports strategy for the then-very-new Las Vegas Sun website in the summer of 2008, we knew we were dealing with a much different market than we had at previous newspapers.
But one thing was clear: Former kusports.com editor Andy Samuelson knew we needed to cover Ultimate Fighting Championship — better known simply as just the UFC.
I knew nothing about UFC at the time, and what I did know had me raising my eyebrows.
Now that I’ve been living in Las Vegas for a year, I understand it a …
