I’ll use the excuse that everyone else seems to be saying these days, “February is such a short month!” While it may be true that February is shorter than every other month, it really doesn’t account for things such as me not putting up a post in the past couple of weeks. Whether it was February or not, the past two weeks seem to have just flown by and as a result, so has February!

This weekend we are heading to Fernie, BC to do some skiing with some friends from work - it should be a good time, especially since I’ve never skied at Fernie before. We have a place booked right on the slopes (right next to one of the chair lifts) which should be awesome! It means we don’t have to get up stupidly early each day to go skiing like we usually do, and we can even go in for a hot lunch each day while skiing. We’re really looking forward to getting away.

Matt and I have an interview tomorrow morning with a radio station in Los Angeles called Arrow 93.1 FM. It’s a classic rock radio station so hopefully there will be lots of sports fans listening that will become new subscribers to The Skinny on Sports. They want us to talk a bit about our show in general and then give our take on the steroid scandal going on in baseball right now. Should be fun. Hopefully we won’t get bumped in the schedule again since we were actually supposed to do this interview last week. We’ve got someone in Los Angeles that is supposed to be recording the show into an MP3 for us, so we’ll try and get it posted sometime tomorrow so everyone that is not in the Los Angeles area (probably most people reading this) can have a chance to listen.

Have a great weekend everyone! It’ll likely be March before I write again! February is so short!

Sorry to have kept this one a secret, but I didn’t want to say too much before I saw what the end result was. Last week, I got a call from the USA Today! They were doing an article about podcasting featuring Dawn and Drew who we’ve had on the show in the past. He talked with me for about 10 minutes and said he would try and work the interview into the story.

I’m excited to say that the story is now in the newspaper and can also be read online here. Needless to say, we are thrilled to even get mentioned, nevermind quoted in the article. Hopefully this will only bring more good things to The Skinny on Sports.

Where is the year going! I can’t beleive we are already through 1 month of 2005! Sorry for not updating this site last week. I’ve had other things going on and this site slipped a bit.

Not to keep bringing it up, but The Skinny on Sports is still doing really well. An interview that we did recently for PodcastAlley.com is not posted on their main page as the Featured Podcast. I also had an interview last night with Erin Bell from HUB: Digital Living Magazine. They are doing a story about Podcasting, and being a Canadian publication, they wanted information from a Canadian podcaster. I don’t really know what form the article will take, but I’ll definitely post links to the story when I have them. I think it’s supposed to be in the March 2005 issue. Matt and I think this is pretty cool! We’ve also got T-shirts to give away to anyone making a donation to the podcast - head over to www.skinnyonsports.com for more details.

I’m away this weekend at a conference in Banff. It’s the Banff Inflammation Workshop and it’s always a good time. It’s coordinated by our research group and the guest speakers that are invited are always from the top of the field making for some really interesting presentations. The conference starts on Thursday and many of us are sticking around on Sunday for a day of skiing.

Have a great weekend!