While trying to find another documentary type movie to compare to The Beatles: A Hard Day's Night I came across NHL: All Access. The description on this movie reads:
"Hockey fans will feel they've scored with this behind-the-scenes look at the National Hockey League. The disc includes game clips, locker room footage and insights from players, coaches and officials as they prepare for and play one of the world's most intense (and bloody) sports. The DVD also features memorable events such as Wayne Gretzky's retirement and Mario Lemieux's post-cancer return to play."
This scremed blog to me. This is exactly what a blog would have in it if it were done on the National Hockey League. I know that the NHL now does have a blog page set up.
But this video was the pre-blog world for the NHL. (I'll have more on this later)
While watching this video I saw more example of what would make a good blog for sports at a university. The best ideas that came through in this movie were:
1. Do different entries as "A Day in the Life of..." This would allow you to keep the blog interesting throughout a season as each day or week would have a focus on a single athlete. At UMD we have started to do something like this on a small scale. We now put up the spotlight on the players that go in each edition of the program the week after they were spotlighted. This is all suplemental information about the athlete that makes fans feel like they know them better and could give media human interest story ideas based on the responses.
We do have to sensor these entire often to make sure that there isn't anything to disgusting or too personal about them, but you do get to know a lot about the athlete. Here is an example of the latest one on the women's hockey team:
Posted by laje0007 at December 14, 2005 12:12 PM