Once they arrived in SU, the work began.
In their brainstorming sessions, full of chicken wings, cheap beer, and cheesy movies from the 1980s, the two decided the magazine could not be like any other publication. At some point, writing about sports became a job. Some people seemed to forget sports are fun. Sports have the ability to heal, to make us smile, to live vicariously through people far more coordinated than us, and to let us escape the pressures of school, work, and parole officers.
EP focuses on the fun and the entertaining in sports. We do not take a critical or depreciating approach to sports. Instead, we focus on what we love about sports: That feeling as you walk to your seats while the arena music blasts over the jumbotron, a hockey hungry city like Winnipeg getting its team back, and understanding the efforts of the men and women we root for on a daily basis--win, loss, or draw.
This attitude paid off in May 2011 when a writer for EP received the John Mitchell Award for Sports Reporting from Syracuse, recognizing him for excellent reporting with the magazine.
The digital magazine runs bi-weekly with features and visuals about the behind-the-scenes of the industry we love.
The website is updated daily with posts on all sports--we don't believe in sports discrimination. We also run podcasts each week to prove the content is not generated by a computer or a team of highly trained monkeys, working on typewriters.
So, pour yourself a glass of iced tea--put some gin in it--kick back, and enjoy.
I got to go. The game's starting.
Please contact us at extrapointmag@gmail.com.
Thanks for reading and listening,
Jeff Laboon
Editor-in-Chief and Co-founder
September 23, 2011
