First Shot
Dylan Goodwin Publisher/Editor
The Shield
I suppose I’m a little bit relieved that the MacRobertson Shield competition is not televised. After spending a good portion of July following the Tour de France, I don’t think my productivity could handle another three-week event. I suppose it hardly matters though – I’ll be hooked on the live commentary scheduled to be posted on the official MacRob website –
http://macrobertsonshield2010.org/commentary. On the subject of the TDF, you’ll find that at least one of the MacRob players is a devout fan once you read Doug Grimsley's player profile on page 20. I think Doug successfully found a way to inject a little slice of humor into every category. I had always hoped to do something special to preview the MacRobertson competition. I was thrilled that Paddy Chapman, Robert Fletcher and Ben Rothman signed on for a group interview via e-mail and I am amazed that they stuck with it over a two-month stretch. The results are interesting – you may notice participants ducking in and out as tourney schedules and global travel took precedent from time to time. I regret now that I didn't provide a timestamp and location on all of the reponses. Anyway, I think you'll enjoy the piece and if nothing else you may get a kick out of Ben educating me on the British Opens. Another item that's been in the hopper a little while is an interview with USCA president Gene Young on page 16. I think you’ll find some great insights on the direction of the USCA in that piece. You may also notice that this is the August/September issue. I’ve made a decision
that the magazine will be six times per year. Frankly, I still feel that monthly is the better way to go, but I've had to concede that I do have some personal limitations on time. In general, it lays out about right to produce a magazine per month, but there are enough holidays, birthdays and un-expected life events in my world to generally de-rail that plan. I'm accepting reality and thinking maybe this gets the whole project closer to offering annual print subscriptions. Along those lines, hopefully many of you stopped by the website over summer to notice that the last issue was available in print. I do plan to offer all of the back issues in print and this issue should be available as well soon after the digital release. I think that gets us up to date for now. Enjoy the MacRobertson Shield competition this month and I'll see you on the court.
Genie Hendry James Hawkins Danny Johnston Johnny Mitchell Eric Sawyer
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