WHY TEE'S WEEKLY?
by Tee Kane
In an improbable comeback that even "Rocky" fans would question, Tee’s College Basketball Weekly is back.
It’s been so long since Tee’s Weekly was last in publication we aren’t even sure when the last issue was published, though we think it was sometime in 1997. A lot has changed in the 10 years since Tee’s Weekly graced the mailboxes of at least 20 customers across the Eastern and Western Shores of Maryland.
As chairman and founder of Tee’s Weekly, I can attest to having greater knowledge about a lot of things in the world than I did when I first published Tee’s Weekly at age 14. However, unfortunately for you the reader, one those things is not college basketball.
Rest assured, the second incarnation of Tee’s Weekly, with the help of an expanded staff, will work hard to provide top-notch analysis of college basketball. Thank God Constantine Popa is still playing for Miami and Patrick Ewing is still playing for Georgetown. It would be really difficult learn everything again.
Perhaps the greatest change since Tee‘s Weekly has been the advent of the internet and wide and instantaneous access to information on college basketball. When Tee’s Weekly started there was a real demand for information for what was happening in college basketball. The issues might not have arrived to your home on time, or even every single week, but they were still invaluable in satiating the appetites of our readers for an informed perspective on college basketball.
While that need has now been filled by countless websites, we, the staff at Tee’s Weekly, believe there is a dearth of insightful commentary written primarily by writers with the last name Kane. It’s all about having a niche, right?
The challenge of publishing the original Tee’s Weekly was printing and distributing the physical product (one Lexmark print cartridge cost a whole year’s worth of subscriptions). I once made the mistake of trying to outsource the job to my twin brother, who promptly took the money and destroyed all that week’s printed copies.
The advent of the internet has solved a lot of these problems, though there will undoubtedly be more than a few kinks along the way, so bear with us. While the internet may have eliminated the need for the original Tee’s Weekly much like the three-point shot took away the need for a dominant big man but allowed the three-point specialist to rise to prominence, the internet also provides Tee’s Weekly a new lease on life (though one of our staff members still thinks computers are a fad).
Like Robert Zimmerman said:
Your old road is
Rapidly agin'.
Please get out of the new one
If you can't lend your hand.