KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Greetings from the famed Marriott hotel adjacent to the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame, where yours truly has arrived and is setting up his wide array of gadgets to be used to cover the festivities here on the blog. I have:
-- A really nice video camera, courtesy of Inquirer photo editor Hai Do
-- A MiniDisc audio recorder
-- The still camera I used to shoot the Penn Relays on my blog, Soft Pretzel Logic (ah, the joys of shameless self-promotion)
Unfortunately, my computer bag is too big to haul around to all the fancy events over the next few days, so I'll have to look into doing something about that. But all the tools are in place to bring you extensive coverage across all the media platforms you could want.
Relating to the previous post, I am indeed a fan of arenas and stadiums. This is in part because of my general life as a sportswriter, but also as someone who studied a lot of architecture and design in college. So I had all the reactions you could expect when I made the turn on Neyland Drive that brought me past Thompson-Bolling Arena and Neyland Stadium.
The one thing I do not have, though, is a phone bill. I spotted one in my apartment on the way out the door, and thought about bringing it with me in order to temporarily increase the phone bill population in Tennessee. As you Volunteer fans (and perhaps others of you as well) know, there aren't many of them around here.
But I decided to leave it back home. Best not to mess with tradition.
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