The Checkdown

Fundamentals are important - just ask any Little League coach. The "fundamental" step in connecting with The Checkdown is to comment on our posts. Just login using your standard Facebook account and you'll be ready to comment on our stories. If you're a one of our top commenters - adding frequently and relevantly to our discussions - we may even draft you as a writer for us, giving you the goods to create your own posts!

As recent college graduates, the Checkdown's writers aren't just sports addicts, we're FB addicts too. Become a fan of ours on Facebook and keep tabs on us with on the social-networking favorite. In addition to our ruthlessly clever status updates, you'll also gain access to our Facebook-exclusive features, including a chance to submit your story ideas and to chat on our discussion boards.

We like to keep things short and sweet (like Spud Webb with candy in his pockets), so Twitter is a perfect fit for us. Follow us on the microwriting monster for regular updates. Since we're a blog "of the people," we'll follow you right back! At The Checkdown, we don't have readers... we have friends.

The appeal of nostalgia isn't lost on The Checkdown. We appreciate things from back-in-the-day; Short shorts, Rollie Fingers' mustache and goalposts at the front of the endzone. If you want to connect with us old-skool-like, then link up to our RSS feed. Whether you're funneling it to your feed reader, your Yahoo!/Google homepage or getting it raw in your browser, our feed is always on.