From Busbee: Let's go to the far side of the world
Hey folks! Some news here: on Monday, I jump on a 15-hour flight to South Korea, covering the Winter Olympics for Yahoo Sports. For the next three weeks, we’ll be writing, shooting video, hosting live chats on Twitter and Facebook, perhaps even a podcast or two if the mood strikes. I’ll be covering everything from curling to biathlon to esports, and I’ll be desperately trying to stake out places to watch "Black Panther" and the Daytona 500 at six in the morning, Korean Standard Time.
So here’s the deal. I want to bring all y’all along. (Not literally. South Korean customs doesn’t play.) But I'll be shoving the experience into your laptops and phones, and you can follow a few ways, listed in order of frequency:
Twitter, @jaybusbee: Constantly updated throughout the day with photos, quips, links, etc., plus live chats via Periscope
Facebook: Links to all articles and videos, plus longer thoughts/speculations/rants (though no travel whining, promise), plus live chats here too
Yahoo Sports author page: Direct link to everything I write on Yahoo, as soon as it goes live
Email newsletter: If you’re, like, a normal person and one who doesn’t obsessively follow social media: first, congratulations. Second, subscribe to the newsletter here and I’ll hit you up once a week or so with links to everything.
As always, I appreciate the hell out of you giving me a few minutes of your precious time to read. You’re the best. No, really. You are.
All right, I’ve got to start packing at some point soon. Meantime, here’s a few stories I wrote in the first month of 2018 that you might enjoy (or not, if you’re a Georgia Bulldogs fan):
-An interview with the Braves’ Chipper Jones on the occasion of his election to the Hall of Fame. Man. I have very distinct memories of goofy-ass 20-year-old Chipper joining the Braves ("What the hell kind of name is 'Chipper?'") and here we are a quarter-century later.
-In the first moments after Georgia’s insane, stunning loss to Alabama, I wandered through ankle-deep confetti and into the Bulldogs locker room, trying to make sense of why this region gets kicked in the jewels so damn hard and so damn often lately. (Prior to the game, we had a feature on Georgia kicker Rodrigo Blankenship, the bespectacled campus hero who looks like he’d be sleeping through ballgames, not winning them.)
Plenty more coming in the next few weeks. As always, my friends, thanks for reading and keep in touch!
-Jay
2/2/18