Coupeville Sports

Canada never saw the wedgie coming.

50,000.

That’s how many page views we’ve pulled in so far, in less than five months.

And, even though our bread and butter is covering, as the name of the site says, Coupeville sports, it seems there is some universal appeal. Our readership is spread out, not just across Whidbey Island, but across the United States, and, for that matter, across the globe.

Ever since I did a feature on foreign exchange student turned Wolf cheerleader Iris Ryckaert, I’ve maintained a loyal following out of Belgium. It seems once they saw photos of Hunter Hammer doin’ what Hunter Hammer does best (being page hit gold, Jerry!!), they were hooked.

If you look to your right, you’ll notice our list of sponsors have grown, as well. We have 19 now, with a 20th one (PS Hair Design) in the wings.

These businesses have joined the fight to keep local, independent journalism alive on an Island where a giant Canadian media conglomerate has slurped up all three newspapers (and then erased bylines off of work done in the old days by people such as myself).

These sponsors (and the individual donators on David’s Best Ever Friends list at the top of the site) believe JV and middle school sports deserve to be covered just as much as varsity sports.

They buy into the mad dream that one day I will have accomplished my goal of doing a feature story on EVERY SINGLE ATHLETE who pulls on a uniform for the Wolves — even if I have to tie Kole Kellison down and force him to talk into the tape recorder.

They are us. We are they. Together, whether we live here in Coupeville or read my words from afar, we are all Wolf Nation.

United we can give Canada a wedgie the likes of which they have never felt before.

To commemorate the 50,000th page view, I’m offering sponsorship ads for $100 for the life of the site.

Not the $250 we started at. $100 and you’re on here forever!

Write your checks to: David Svien.

Mail them to: 145 N. Sherman, Coupeville, WA 98239.

Or hand them to me at the next game. Unlike Canada, which goes home at 4:30, I actually follow the mantra of Bill O’Reilly — “We’ll do it live!!”

Do it because you want to cheese off the Canucks. Do it because you believe in independent journalism. Do it for the kids.

Whatever your reason may be, your help makes a difference. And your ad will be noticed.

50,000 page views don’t lie.