Philadelphia Flyers Community Leader and new Bleacher sensation Alan Bass made his radio debut last week on WERS 88.9 in Boston.

Make sure and listen in to hear Alan show off his knowledge of the Bruins, further demonstrating how well versed he is on all things NHL.

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Way to go Alan!

Longtime contributor and Founder of TheScoreBoards.com Chris Radez is asking all members of the Bleacher Report Community to publish an article promoting their city or town and explaining what it brings to the world of sports.

Chris got the ball rolling with a tribute to his hometown of Latham, New York. Be sure to check it out and make your own contribution to the series by giving your writeup a “My Town Rocks” headline and tag.

It goes without saying that the talent you’ll find on Bleacher Report resides in a variety of locations across the globe. This is an exciting opportunity to get a better sense of each other’s backgrounds—thanks for the idea Chris!

ESPN Radio Talk Show Host and longtime Bleacher Creature Adam Amick has plans to host a weekly show featuring contributors from the web’s fastest growing sports network.

Adam did a test run last night, which from all accounts was a wild success. Adam recaps the night’s events in this article, while St. Louis Cardinals Community Leader Ben Weixlmann reflects upon how a radio show could further add to the unique user experience that Bleacher Report provides sports fans.

We’re working with Adam as we speak to explore ways to further integrate radio into the network and schedule/promote the new show. Updates will be posted both on the blog and the Bleacher Report Radio page—stay tuned.

Wanted to give a shout out to White Sox Community Leader and senior Bleacher Creature J.J. Stankevitz, who just landed a paid gig with examiner.com.

Bleacher Report has provided J.J. with an opportunity to broadcast his talents to a widespread national audience, and folks in the mainstream media are clearly beginning to take notice of his skills.

Amongst other things, this is further validation that writing for Bleacher Report can help launch your career in sports media.  For more on this and other contributors who’ve had similar experiences to J.J., look here, here, and here.

Make sure to visit J.J.’s new digs at Chicago White Sox Examiner and show some love for your fellow Creature.  And worry not: he’ll still be heading up Bleacher Report’s Sox Community and regularly posting his analysis on all things baseball.

Calling all basketball freaks: Forget Jay Bilas, Chad Ford, and Bill Simmons—for the best NBA draft analysis on the web, tune into Bleacher Report Thursday beginning at 4:30 PM Pacific time.

Three of our resident NBA experts—Erick Blasco, Andrew Ungvari, and Michael Whittenberg—will be giving you the pick-by-pick skinny throughout the entire first round. They’ll be dissecting the nitty gritty in a private chat and publishing the transcripts as articles on the NBA section of Bleacher Report every hour or so under a group account called The Collective.

Will Derrick Rose celebrate his homecoming in Chicago? Will Michael Beasley join his friend Kevin Durant in Seattle? Can the Lopez Twins kick their comic book addictions and play some hoops in ‘09?

Find out tomorrow—and let the Collective tell you what it all means for next season.

Longtime MMA contributor Dorothy Willis has had her poem about Georges St. Pierre nominated for a contest on poetry.com.

Yes, you read that right. In case you weren’t aware, we have a resident poet on Bleacher Report—and she’s a freak for fighting.

Whether you’re familiar with Yeates, Dickinson, and Frost or think poetry’s for the birds, please show your support for Dorothy by visiting her page on poetry.com. You can vote for her poem by clicking the green “Poets Choice: Rate This Poem” button below her entry.

Congrats Dorothy on your success thus far-—may you dominate this contest like Rush dominated Matt Hughes for the Welterweight title!

Bleacher Report contributor Brian Sakowski runs a fantastic college football blog and podcast called In The Bleachers (which also happens to be the longest running general college football podcast on the web).

Last night, Brian kicked off season 4 of In the Bleachers with an extensive breakdown of the top out of conference games of 2008.

You can click here to listen.

I’ll check back periodically with a rundown of Brian’s podcasts, including some guest appearances by top Bleacher Report college football writers later this summer.

After two months, four rounds, and nearly 300 articles, it was still too close to call. So Sean Stancill and Jeff Little will share top honors in the inaugural NBA Beat Writers competition.

Better than 30 Bleacher Creatures took part in the content initiative, following their NBA team throughout the postseason and attracting more than 158,000 readers.

Senior Writer Jeff Little, a Los Angeles die hard, capitalized on his Lakers’ success, providing thorough, insightful coverage from the opening round to the NBA Finals aftermath.

With his Nuggets eliminated by those very Lakers, Stancill had to take a different route, digging deep into Denver draft analysis, off-season trade possibilities, and a potential coaching change.

For their contributions, Stancill and Little each receive a $100 gift card to NBA.com.

Honorable mention goes to two Celtics writers, Sean Crowe and Andrew Palumbo, who provided great coverage of Boston’s title run.

Thanks to all who participated.

On Saturday, June 14th—around 2:05 PM South Carolina time—resident Bleacher Creature and College Hoops Community Leader Tim Pollock officially became a Daddy.

Tim’s wife Kim (yes, Kim and Tim) gave birth to a beautiful baby boy, and the couple named the little guy Elijah William Pollock.

We wish Tim all the best in his new life as a father and are excited to see how it affects his outlook on the sports world.  If Tim’s latest submission is any indication,  the experience appears to be as rewarding as one would expect.

The Bleacher Report team is pleased to formally announce a partnership with Fox Sports.

For the past five weeks, Foxsports.com has featured Bleacher Report articles on its front and league pages, alongside their in-house content.

This partnership is validation that Bleacher Report’s writers consistently contribute articles of such high quality that a premier mainstream sports network like Fox Sports is excited to feature them on their most-trafficked pages.

As the sports media landscape continues to evolve, more and more fans are looking for a reliable source of in-depth coverage for all the sports and teams that they follow.

Our team takes great pride in continuing to make improvements to a platform that empowers true sports experts to meet this demand by contributing great analysis and insights about the players, teams and leagues they know best.

We look forward to further synergies with Fox Sports and other future partners.

Click here to view a sampling of the Bleacher Report articles already featured on FoxSports.com.