Originally Posted by Herkey#1  While that is true if I bought every cheap subscription to every online site of every topic that I was interested in I would soon be left without any money. I will however start reading the free articles on rev and maybe I will decide that I cannot live without it. But with all the free sites and with one of the best wrestling journalists IMO, Andy Hamilton, covering much of the NCAA wrestling scene with an emphasis on the Hawkeyes in a newpaper that I can read online for free I will find it hard to pay for a subscription. I am already canceling my subscription to AWN, that I have had for years, since the information that I want from it is all over the free sites.
This is no disrespect to you Mark. I am not going to make a decision until I give your free site a shot. I am looking forward to reading many of the articles that you refrenced me to. Who knows? Maybe I'll have to have it! |
No disrepect taken, Herkey #1. ;-)
We wrestling fans live in the best of times in terms of information access. When I was a kid (back in the Dark Ages -- the 1960s and 70s), there was Amateur Wrestling News... and whatever coverage the local papers provided... and, once a year, ABC's Wide World of Sports showed a very edited version of the NCAA finals weeks after the event.
Now, in addition to print magazines such as AWN, WIN, and Wrestling USA, we also have a smorgasbord of information available to us on the Internet...
> Dedicated wrestling websites such as Dart Shark's Intermat, RevWrestling, TheWrestlingMall,
flowrestling...
> Wrestling forums like TheWrestlingTalk forum
> Countless blogs...
> The individual websites for high school and college programs, as well as many individual wrestler websites...
> Organizational websites such as TheMat.com for USA Wrestling...
> Yahoo and google groups dedicated to amateur wrestling...
> Reference websites like Tom Fortunato's incredible "Web's Best of Amateur Wrestling" that lists over 6,000 wrestling websites, along with photos, videoclips, books, etc.
> General media outlets such as the Iowa City Press-Citizen and the Des Moines Register and the Cedar Rapids Gazette so those of us who live hundreds of miles from Hawkeye-land can read Andy Hamilton and Dan McCool and JR Ogden.
(Whew! I'm out of breath!)
Most of these are absolutely FREE... so you can keep up with the sport at no charge. Paid subscription services such as Intermat Premium and RevGold provide an even greater level of coverage of the sport, with features that you won't find anywhere else. And, by subscribing, you help ensure that these websites continue to provide FREE content to everyone.
In addition, you can help these websites by letting their advertisers know -- "Hey, I saw your ad at TheWrestlingMall..." Their ads also provide revenue that makes it possible to provide free content.
This message isn't directly solely at Herkey #1, but for everyone... because every once in a while, I get private emails or postings to my Yahoo groups "Hey, can you post that article from Intermat Premium (or RevGold)?" I think that some folks don't always understand or appreciate that subscribers make it possible for all of us to enjoy the FREE smorgasbord of wrestling information available to us online.
Mark
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