2001 HISTORY
& ARCHIVES
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JANUARY 2001
With the college hockey season in full swing, sportsWIRE opened
a new site, "hockeyEAST
Wire". It featured game coverage of Merrimack, UMass Lowell, UNH,
Maine, BC, and Providence.
Another hockey site was developed for Beverly High School's varsity
Panther Hockey program as "sportsWIRE
BHS" was a hit with community hockey fans. sportsWIRE focused
mainly on high school and college hockey during the first two months of
the new year.
sportsWIRE intoduced a season-long
hockey poll focusing on the statistics of selected games from the
hockey season.
FEBRUARY 2001
sportsWIRE continued it's hockey coverage by covering it's thrid
NHL All-Star Weekend on the sportsWIRE wireWEB. The coverage included
updates throughout the evening of the skills competition as well as full
scoring coverage from the sunday afternoon game. The All-Star
Hockey Page also featured news from other hockey All-Star games
before and after the NHL's.
Other notable moments from february included the coverage of the inaugural
XFL football season, and the conclusion of the third annual fan voting
awards.
MARCH 2001
Once again, college sports reigned supreme during the month of March
and hockey was the dominant sport as sportsWIRE's coverage of this
year's Hockey East tournament excelled those of the previous two
years. hockeyEAST
Wire's tournament pages covered the two-night tournament from
the FleetCenter with extensive coverge of the event.
sportsWIRE was also on hand to watch their neighbors at Danvers
High varsity hockey win the 2001
MIAA Division II State Tournament on the third day of "threeAT
theFLEET", marking three days of back-to-back-to-back college and high
school hockey.
March also marked the expansion of the BRHL into the "Eastern Massachusetts
Roller Hockey League"; and so sportsWIRE's roller hockey page expanded
as well. A new site, "www.rollerhockeywire.freeservers.com",
was added to accomdate future roller hockey coverage.
Not only did the roller hockey page expand, but the network name expanded
from "wireMEDIA" to "wireMEDIA/sportsWIRE". "We added the name that people
were familiar with." said wireMEDIA/sportsWIRE president, Mike Gastonguay.
This was an especially good month for mikeyG as he was accpted into
Emerson College in Boston to study communications. It was then that he
would close wireMEDIA/sportsWIRE over the summer to work on new
projects. "There's a possibility that this will only be a hiatus for the
network" Gastonguay responded. "I'd just like to get situated into college
life and leave my options open".
APRIL 2001
April was no less hectic than March was. The month opened with coverage
of WRESTLEMANIA X7 at the wrestleMEDIA site. They provided all-day coverage
of the event included semi-real time updates throughout the evening's event.
The following weekend with filled with hockey action as the 2001
NCAA FROZEN FOUR took place. This event introduced "mikeyG's
Notebook", a scanned sheet of game notes from the sportsWIRE president.
More from mikeyG included a new page called speakOUT.
He used this page to address rumors and news concerning wireMEDIA/sportsWIRE.
The idea for the page came during his visit to Emerson College. The following
weekend, he went to New York for Red Sox/Yankees baseball game which was
promoted by sportsWIRE as "Behind
Enemy Lines". The game was featured on the internet and television
alike, as was his next Major League Baseball promotion, "On
Our Turf", which featured a Twins/Red Sox game at Fenway Park from
the following week. Televison tapings included these games as well as high
school baseball. Web coverage featured the Pro Hockey playoffs at a new
site, Stanley
Cup Wire, as well as the Basketball
playoffs and baseball
season openers.
MAY 2001
Work began on the last original sportsWIRE TV episode this month. The
series finale date was set for June 30, 2001 and a private party was being
planned by Mikey G. Web updates were slow but steady and focused on the
Hockey playoffs and the Special
Olympics.
On May 12, "sportsWIRE eXtreme" debuted on the sportsWIRE Television
series. The show was the second to last in the series.
JUNE 2001
Just five days before his high school graduation, Michael Gastonguay
completed the shut down of the web site. The final television show would
follow on June 30th.