The Justice

As the mastermind behind the WBRS Sports Blog, Adam Green '07 has drawn attention from professional bloggers even moreso than from his peers at Brandeis. Photo illustration by Jonathan Zimmerman/the Justice

Sitting with his arms and legs extended, Adam Green '07 laughs as he discusses his childhood sports background, which included an uncommon fascination with the 2000 Southern Methodist University basketball team.

But when asked about how he became a player in the sports blogging world, Green, a Dallas native and former varsity golfer, energetically recalls the evolution of his sports blogging career.

His brainchild, the WBRS Sports Blog, has registered over 30,000 hits since its inception last March and has become a favorite of Deadspin.com, arguably the largest independent sports weblog on the internet.

Although Green began the blog as an outlet for Brandeis sports radio personalities to express their views, it has since expanded and moved into the independent sports blogging scene. Green's creativity, enthusiasm, and affinity for obscure sports stories have enabled the blog to undergo this transformation.

"The blog provides the reader with funny, less known stories that they wouldn't otherwise read about," Green said.

Green's journey into sports blogging began differently than most. After he was a mainstay on WBRS as a member of the sports talk show "Overtime," Green was temporarily kicked off the air for neglecting to complete co-op, the required 3 hours per month of outside service to the radio station.

Without his show, Green decided the best way to get back on the air was to think outside the box. He entertained the idea of starting a weblog for WBRS sports radio personalities. Faced with the possibility of being off the air for the remainder of the semester, Green decided that convincing WBRS leaders to count the blog as co-op would be his only chance to get back on "Overtime."

After initially being denied, Green eventually convinced the station to make the weblog co-op and allow him back on "Overtime" in a series of persuasive e-mails.

"If co-op means helping the station and trying to making the station more successful by gaining more listeners and helping the station's reputation, then that certainly has to count as co-op," he said.

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