FEBRUARY 1999
Continuing with his "trial and error" based web design, Gastonguay made another sports page for his "Mentos Kid" site. This page was titled simply enough, "The Sports Page", and it featured reports from ESPN and FOX's sports web sites. At this time, the site was updated more often.
Gastonguay's other media ventures included designing the bulletins for the BHS-22 Educational access channel in Beverly, Massachusetts.

MARCH 1999
Still using the "Sports Page" concept, Gastonguay discovered an exciting brand of college hockey, "Hockey East". He attended the confrence championship and relayed the game's events in full detail. The Sports Page continued to cover Hockey East throughout the 1999 NCAA Championship Tournament.

APRIL 1999
New web site features in April included the inaugural fan voting awards on the Sports Page. Fans were able to vote interactivley for their favorites from the past year.
Also, April of '99 marked Gastonguay's first vacation since entering the world of media. Even in his own personal time, he felt the need to express himself on the web. Disney "Mentos" Style featured some pics and highlights from his trip to central Florida along with his family and friends.
After his trip, Gastonguay returned to the world of sports media and gave his attention to the local roller hockey scene. A local league, the "WRHL", had employed the services of Gastonguay and Jon Glidden, on a volunteer basis.

MAY 1999
The name "Sports Wire" made it's way back to the web during another revision of the "Mentos Kid Page". The title was changed graphiclly to appear as sportsWIRE. The page renovation served as a project for Gastonguay's High School media class.
After some personnel changes at MediaOne cable access, Gastonguay turned back into the field of cable access television. Plans were srawn up to air a WRHL tournament on Beverly's cable system in June.

JUNE 1999
sportsWIRE covered it's first World Wrestling Federation event on June 8, 1999. The event consisted of unbroadcasted matches, and tapings of sunday night HEAT and RAW IS WAR. The results of the bouts were listed on the "Mentos Wrestling Federation" site.
This month also saw the continued frustrations of cable television failure as equipment problems prevented the broadcast of the WRHL's Spring Championship tournament just 24 hours removed from the WWF event.

JULY 1999
"If at first you don't succeed, Try and Try again" This quote proved to be more than true for Mike Gastonguay's ventures in cable television as he, along with Jon Glidden and camera operator, Susan Cravatas, taped the first successful WRHL tournament in late July.
Earlier in the month, sportsWIRE added a page focusing on the 1999 Major League Baseball All-Star game from Fenway Park.

AUGUST 1999
The first of the month brought Gastonguay's debut as a producer. Operating under the name MediaOne Sports, The first WRHL televison broadcast entered homes on August 1, 1999. Along with color commentator, Jon Glidden, Gastonguay carried the series of three shows, one for each game of the WRHL Summer tournament.

SEPTEMBER 1999
After a month of success on BEV-TV 3 in Beverly, Mike turned his attention back to the web. His "Mentos Kid Page" celebrated it's first anniversay under the Geocities server. Mike began developments on another sports page focusing mainly on the WRHL roller hockey. His goal was to unsweeten the news of the WRHL from it's official page. Providing a new attitude on the league's news, the site was named appropriately enough, WRHL Attitude.
Gastonguay also added some multimedia video and audio features to sportsWIRE as another page was added to the Geocities server.
Having scored some excellent seats to a Red Sox home game, Mike along with Glidden and friend Jamie Michalski (a.k.a. dj whatever) headed to fenway to see the Sox tangle with the Tigers and coverage of the game was delivered to the sportsWIRE web site.

OCTOBER 1999
Gastonguay's coverage of the BoSox payed off as sportsWIRE followed the Sox's triumphs and tragedies during the 1999 Divisional and League Championship Series.
The biggest news from this month was the addition of sportsWIRE TV to the fall lineup of BEV-TV cable. While the idea of a sports highlights show was not an original one, Mike was still pleased with the result.

DECEMBER 1999
sportsWIRE continued to air as a monthly television series in Beverly. Gastonguay recieved his own personal camera equipment over the holidays, for use in future episodes. New additions to the web site included a new page for Hockey East news and stats.