{"id":7421,"date":"2014-12-15T07:20:12","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T12:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=7421"},"modified":"2014-12-15T07:46:40","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T12:46:40","slug":"you-all-forgot-our-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=7421","title":{"rendered":"You All Forgot Our Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Birthday-Cake-Candles\"<\/a>JMUSB officially turned five years old last week on December 11. And every single one of you forgot, didn’t you? Well, that’s not technically true, since the fact that it was our birthday, anniversary, or whatever you call it had to brought to our attention by our friend. So we completely forgot too. But we expect more from you people.<\/p>\n

It’s hard to believe it’s been five years since we got this little project off the ground. We started with a post about a basketball team led by a guy named Denzel Bowles and a link to video (because we didn’t know how to embed clips) about a flash mob in a library that didn’t exist when we were students. Things were a little rough around the edges at first, but have evolved to the point where the blog is now\u00a0pretty well written and highly respected<\/del> five years older.<\/p>\n

A lot has happened since the blog started. The hoops team finally made it back to March Madness, the new Bridgeforth opened, coaches were hired and fired, and the CAA added and dropped and added teams. We got to write about it all. And we also got under the skin of other team’s fans and got to write about silly stuff like JMU athletes marrying boy band stars (which seemed to trump everything else traffic wise). That’s all been fun. What’s really been neat is the fact that we’ve been able to connect and make friends with a lot of people through the blog. That’s been great. What’s been even better is that the blog has made the two of us even closer than we already were. And for two guys who were pretty good friends already, that’s saying something.<\/p>\n

So thank to everyone for putting up with us for the past five years. We’ll keep going if you keep reading. Go Dukes.<\/p>\n

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