My love of sports started with childhood dreams of scoring the winning touchdown in the Super Bowl and hitting the last second shot in the NBA finals. For you it might be scoring the winning goal on grass (ice for you northerners), or nailing that eagle shot on the 18^th hole to win. As I got older the dream of playing professional sports faded away, but, like you, nothing could fade the love for the game. Sports, in fact, are 4Ever.

I’ve been a league coordinator for 12 years and have seen how much we love to play. But aside from the exercise, what keeps us playing? Typically, you don’t see a lot of awards in amateur athletics, and bragging rights don’t mean much when no one is listening. Ah, but the love of the game, that’s what forces me to continue even through the several days it takes my body to recover.

After doing some research, I have found that there are over 50 million adults and 40 million youth who are involved in some sort of sports league. Whether it’s Little League baseball or co-ed softball, team sports is a healthy part of living an active lifestyle. Then it hit me, what if there was something to play for in addition to the love of the game… a little bit of drama in amateur athletics?

What if league coordinators could write articles or blogs about how teams in their league play? Or, what if teams could find a way to scout each other? Well, I personally think it’s a crying shame that more leagues don’t offer elements in their league that make them unique. Then again, speaking as a league coordinator, I barely have time to put the league together, not to mention ranking top teams in my league, or writing about a championship game. If only leagues were as easy to set up as you would a fantasy team.

Enter Sports 4E. The founders of Sports 4E are passionate about the inner athlete in all of us and the good that competitive sports provide. We have spent years gathering feedback from coordinators and players and would like to share with you some of our ideas. Sports4E would like to…

• Provide a tool for League Coordinators to greatly reduce hours of setting up leagues, allowing them more time to do other things.
• Supply Coaches with a web page that communicates to past, present and future players.
• Give confidence to Players within a like-minded community to post their thoughts of the game, stats, and even talk a little smack.

Sports4E has entered the development phase and will be launching our beta site in March of 2008. If you are a league coordinator, coach, player, or fan take a minute to register with us and be a part of our beta launch. We welcome your thoughts and comments and hope you enjoy our blogs.