Best wishes to all of our readers for a happy and healthy 2009.

Fordham SportsNet would like to thank you for your support, and we look forward to providing you with comprehensive coverage and insightful analysis of Fordham sports in the new year.

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year’s Eve to all Fordham SportsNet readers.

And yes, this is still fordhamsportsnet.com. We decided to experiment with a new design that we hope you will find to be attractive and easy on the eyes. Let us know what you think.

In the meantime, thanks for your support, and we wish you a safe and happy holiday.

Fordham SportsNet would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas.

Thank you for your support of our website and we look forward to seeing you back here tomorrow as we resume coverage of Fordham basketball.

Merry Christmas!

As Fordham SportsNet continues to receive more and more hits on a daily basis, we wanted to extend an invitation to our readers to comment on the stories we post on the site. 

The following is Fordham SportsNet’s comment policy:

Comments are not made public until they are approved by Fordham SportsNet. We ask that your comments reflect good taste, sound judgement, and intelligent discussion. By no means are we asking you to agree with the news and commentary that our website provides, only that you keep your comments respectful and appropriate. Fordham SportsNet reserves the right not to post comments that we deem to be offensive or inappropriate. Finally, we have received a number of comments that have complimented us on our site. We truly appreciate these kind words and we keep these comments private since they do not necessarily pertain to a specific post.

Fordham SportsNet looks forward to hearing from you, our readers, and thanks you again for your support.

The Fordham basketball teams are off for finals this week so Fordham SportsNet would like to take the time to thank the following supporters of our site:

• A very special thank you to Joe DiBari, Fordham Sports Information Director, for his support of our website, most recently Mr. DiBari’s generosity in posting a link to our site on fordhamsports.com, and providing fordhamsportsnet.com with game photographs to use on our site. Mr. Dibari and Scott Kwiatkowski, Assistant Sports Information Director, have been great in accommodating our requests and we are very grateful for their time and generosity.
• Fordham SportsNet would also like to thank 90.7FM WFUV for having Charles Costello on as a halftime guest during Fordham’s win last Monday against Lafayette. Fordhamsportsnet.com experienced its most successful night of traffic following that broadcast. Once again, thank you to WFUV for the publicity and for their excellent coverage of Fordham sports.
• Thanks also to fordhamfans.com for help with publicizing our site. After the halftime interview, links to fordhamsportsnet.com, and comments about our site, were posted on the fordhamfans website and we have experienced a steady stream of traffic ever since. A link to fordhamfans.com can now be found on our website. We thank fordhamfans.com for doing the same for our site.
• And thank you to all who have visited fordhamsportsnet.com. We look forward to continuing to bring you comprehensive coverage of the Fordham basketball teams throughout the season, and we are excited about enhancements to our site and expanded coverage of other Fordham sports and Fordham topics in the very near future.

Great response to Fordham SportsNet’s first live blog last night, covering the Fordham-Hofstra men’s basketball game from Hempstead. What a thrill it was to bring to our readers live updates and running commentary, as the Rams, despite a strong first half, fell to 0-6 on the year with a 60-40 loss to the Pride.

Special thanks to all of you who checked in last night. Fordham SportsNet would also like to thank WFUV Radio for their outstanding call of last night’s game, helping us provide you with entertaining, insightful information throughout the game. We will update readers in the near future on when Fordham SportsNet will provide the next live blog of Fordham basketball.

Fordham SportsNet will add a new feature to the site Wednesday, presenting the first live blog of Fordham basketball.

Tomorrow night the men’s basketball team travels to Hempstead, New York to take on the Hofstra Pride. Throughout the course of the game (7:00, 90.7FM and WFUV.org) Fordham SportsNet will provide updates, scoring summaries, commentary, and running thoughts on all the action. We also encourage readers of the site to get involved by contributing their comments.

Fordham SportsNet looks forward to providing this in-game blog as a service to our readers, and will continue to cover both the men’s and women’s teams throughout the season with game reports, news, and commentary.

Just a reminder, the women return to the U.S. tomorrow night for a 7:00 contest at Georgetown. The game can be heard live on WFUV.org.

Fordham SportsNet is excited to announce a new feature that will appear on the site beginning tomorrow.

Highlights of Dereck Whittenburg’s weekly interview on WFUV’s One on One sports show will be posted on fordhamsportsnet.com immediately following each appearance by the head coach. Whittenburg appears each week at 2:30 p.m. on New York’s longest-running sports call-in show on 90.7FM and WFUV.org.

The men’s basketball team returns to action Sunday afternoon as they host the James Madison Dukes in a 1:00 tip-off at Rose Hill.

Fordham SportsNet would like extend Happy Thanksgiving wishes to all readers. Thank you for your early support of this brand new website. We look forward to continuing to bring you the best coverage of Fordham basketball, as well as revealing enhancements to this site in the very near future.

Fordham SportsNet will return tomorrow with some thoughts on the men’s basketball team, and with a preview of the women’s team as they spend their Thanksgiving weekend in Mexico at the Cancun Thanksgiving Classic.

Again, Happy Thanksgiving to all!

Welcome to the brand new website, fordhamsportsnet.com.

Fordham SportsNet will start out covering the 2008-2009 Fordham men’s and women’s basketball teams. It is the goal of this website to provide Fordham fans with the most comprehensive and insightful coverage of Fordham basketball. In the future, the site will expand its coverage to Fordham football, in time for the 2009 season. Along the way, we hope to include other sports and Fordham related stories on this site. In addition, the site will serve as an opportunity for fan interaction and discussion.

Fordham sports are a big part of the New York sports scene. From Rose Hill to the homes of Fordham graduates and sports fans alike, this site will provide readers with game recaps, commentary, profiles, and news updates. Up to this point, 90.7FM WFUV Radio has been the only indpendent source for comprehensive coverage of Fordham basketball and football. The Daily News, New York Post, and other local newspapers have provided coverage, but not the type of daily, in-depth stories that Fordham fans deserve and crave. We hope to become the place where Fordham fans visit to get updated news and information.

Special thanks to Joe Dibari, Sports Information Director, and Scott Kwiatkowski, Assistant Sports Information Director, for granting Fordham SportsNet press access for the upcoming basketball season.

Tonight is the season opener for both the men’s and women’s teams. We will be back later today with a preview and we’ll be at Rose Hill tonight for the doubleheader.

In the meantime, welcome to Fordham SportsNet, and enjoy!

Charles Costello
Creator and Lead Writer