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Hey, you too could be cool like Wendy McCormick!!

Posted in Boys Tennis, Ranting and Raving, Whidbey's Best on September 19, 2012| Leave a Comment »

In this photo by Wendy McCormick, Wolf netters Zane Bundy (left) and Connor McCormick give future opponents a preview of the Gaze ‘o Death that awaits them over the next four years. “We’re coming for you, and you are not ready for the destruction we are bringing!”

We are at war.

On one side of town — a giant media corporation funded by filthy, filthy Canadian money (well, until they buy me out, then it’s sweet, sweet Canadian cash).

On the other side of town, coming to you from a bunker under Penn Cove, on a computer powered by three small hamsters, one of whom just passed out and jammed the server, the free voice of the people — coupevillesports.com!!

Like Patrick Swayze and Lea Thompson before us (“Wolverines!!”), we are stickin’ it to The Man, only instead of shooting them in the knee-caps, we’re just symbolically knee-capping them. At least that’s our cover story.

And how are we doing this? How can one man take down a giant corporate behemoth?

With a little help from the public, that’s how.

I’m doing this in my spare time, and while it would be nice to get out and cover all the events in person, I am not paid handsomely and showered in benefits by my Canadian Corporate Overlords. So, I need your help.

And I’ve been getting it.

Thanks to people like Shelli Trumbull, Maryann Engle, Kim Andrews and, as of an hour ago, Wendy McCormick, who are all allowing me to poach sports photos from their Facebook pages, we have shiny, happy pics of Coupeville athletes to go with my rantings and ravings.

This is how a revolution is started. One person at a time. Every one who provides coupevillesports.com with pics, or stats, or a heads-up about a story (and, unlike Big Brother down the street, we DO want JV, middle school and lil’ kid stuff, which is why we had 24 names in our most recent boys’ tennis story, while the Other Guys had just 12!) fires a shot for freedom, for anarchy in the streets.

I am here for you, the parents and students and fans of Coupeville. Use Facebook, email me at davidsvien@hotmail.com or drop stuff in my mailbox at 145 N. Sherman (it’s a big mail box, so baked goods fit nicely in there…).

Who’s afraid of the Canadian Corporate Overlords? Not me, as long as I have a town behind me.

 

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Unpaid blogger 1, huge corporate entity 0!!

Posted in Football, Ranting and Raving, Whidbey's Best on September 15, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Great, now I’ve gone and got the Canadian Corporate Overlords all miffed…

I mean, what do you think they’re gonna say when they notice that an unpaid blogger (I’m actually $18 in the hole, after paying for my domain name) who DOESN’T EVEN COVER OAK HARBOR SPORTS has juicy news about Marshall Lobbestael, the one-time state title-winning quarterback at OHHS? News that their handsomely-compensated employees at Sound Publishing haven’t bothered to notice?

The sound you just heard is the pipeline of cool Canadian filthy lucre coming to a sudden, grinding halt, as the bean counters in Ottawa (or is it Halifax? Manitoba?) scream, “Just what are we paying these Whidbey Islanders for, anyway?!?!?!?”

But that’s what I’m here for, to tweak the Evil Empire and to do a community service by bringing you the cold, hard facts about Whidbey Island’s own — even when those folks have moved off The Rock.

Lobbestael, who went from flinging the pigskin for the Wildcats — in the days when current Coupeville gridiron coach Tony Maggio was on the OH staff — to tossing 300-yard games in college for Wazzu, is now following in the footsteps of Maggio.

He, and his former center on the ‘Cat title team of 2006, Edmundo Corrales, have joined the coaching staff at Sedro-Woolley High School this year. They were lured there by a chance to reunite with their head coach from their high school days, Dave Ward, who took the head job with the Cubs after being let go by an ignorant administration at Archbishop Thomas Murphy, where he had led the bad boys of the Cascade Conference to back-to-back trips to the state title game.

Now reunited, the trio who helped bring big-time attention to Whidbey Island football, are moving forward and instilling the love of the game in new players.

“High school football is all about playing and having fun. It was something I loved doing and something I wanted to be involved with on the coaching end,” Lobbestael was quoted in a piece by Trevor Pyle in The Skagit Valley Herald. “Throughout high school, I was lucky to have a great group of coaches. It made a good impression and a positive influence on my life.”

And now The Lobster is paying it forward.

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