Sports are all about change. Seniors get drafted, professionals get traded, coaches play musical chairs every off-season and track teams vanish overnight. Sports journalism works the same way.

This ain’t your grandma’s sports page anymore.

Last Thursday brought a changing of the guard here at The Daily Campus. With only minimal newspaper experience and an unimpeachable record as a sports fan (try and guess why my name looks familiar in print), I became the new sports editor.

My first action was to raid the broadcast department and hire Kate Murphy to be my associate sports editor. Kate is a newspaper pro and a sports nut. She knows more about football than any one person ought to. Think John Madden with a ponytail.

Our mission this semester is to bring you SMU sports coverage like no one else can. We want to do away with Associated Press stories you can read anywhere and focus instead on the stories that happen right here on the Hilltop.

We plan to expand coverage of varsity and club sports and also cover athletics as it affects the rest of us. Intramural coverage, profiles and in-depth feature stories are all in the works, so keep reading.

Our success, however, depends on you. The DC and the sports department in particular are in constant need of writers to cover everything from basketball to wakeboarding.

Naturally we seek experienced writers, but, just as importantly, we need people who simply know sports.

Have you ever missed a class to watch SportsCenter for a second time? Do you carry your basketball shoes around with you, just in case? If so, I’m talking to you now.

So you think you know something about sports? Prove it. Come write for us.

Drop by the DC office upstairs at Hughes-Trigg or send us an e-mail telling us your interest in sports and your experience level. We look forward to hearing from you.

You can reach Garrett Haake at [email protected] and Kate Murphy at [email protected].