Bob George's BOSSPORTS  evolved out of a fan's love for Boston Sports, a love for reading about it, and the desire to put 20 years of creative writing skills to work.

In 1993, Bob had a long talk with his brother regarding new and different hobbies to create more diversions from his full-time teaching job.  It was suggested that Bob take up amateur sports writing, because of his passion for Boston Sports and his longtime collection of personal daily diaries.  It was also in 1993 that Bob first was exposed to MS-DOS and the Windows systems, as well as Microsoft Works.

Bob, an Apple IIE veteran at the time, took a year to learn MS Works, then began to dabble in sports journalism in the summer of 1994.  His first article, "Let 'Em Strike!  Are You Happy With Baseball In General?", which dealt with the impending 1994 baseball strike, was an attempt to grope for a style that would best express himself.  Bob spent the rest of that summer groping for a style, and getting used to the component parts of putting an essay together.  Bob, who wrote a 76-page Masters Thesis in graduate school, found it to be an interesting challenge, a challenge that was well within his means to take on.

Bob continued to write throughout the summer of 1994, with articles coming out regarding the 1994 World Cup, the lack of offense in the NBA, and the questionable quality of some radio sports talk shows.  In the fall of 1994, Bob stopped writing articles, temporarily, because he felt the articles weren't panning out the way he had hoped.

Then in 1996, Bob bought a computer for his home and gained access to the Internet.  It has changed his life (and his marriage!) ever since.  Bob learned to "surf the net", discovered the Boston Globe Online, and began to re-absorb the Boston Sports culture once again.  Ultimately, with the help of his brother (who is a computer software engineer based in New Hampshire), he learned how to write HTML and began designing web pages.  His first project was a website for his teaching job, and it was hailed by his school district as being of high quality.

Coincidentally, now with a computer at home, Bob began writing again in the summer of 1996.  It was that Red Sox-Orioles game at Camden Yards right before the All-Star Break in which Mo Vaughn won it in the 9th with a three-run homer that drove Bob back to the typewriter.  Bob wrote a game story, then another, and by the fall of 1996 he was churning out 3-4 articles a week.  Then the Super Bowl Patriots campaign began that fall, and Bob let loose with tons of Patriot articles.  Most of Bob's articles were game stories, but as the Bill Parcells situation worsened, he turned more to commentary articles.  Bob wondered if anyone would ever read his stuff, and wished he had a way to allow people to do so.

In February, 1997, one of Bob's students introduced him to GeoCities, which gave Bob a chance to develop his own website outside of his school district.  Bob checked it out, took out a neighborhood, and began putting these many articles on the Internet.  Bob officially launched his Best Of Boston Sports! website on March 1, 1997, and learned new HTML techniques along the way to improve his site.  It started slowly, with maybe 10 hits a week if he was lucky.  But Bob kept writing, and posting articles as fast as he could.  Bob decided to post commentary to his website, and drifted away from game stories.  Bob felt more comfortable with commentary, which seemed to flow better than the stats-dependent game stories.

In the summer of 1997, Bob stumbled upon a website called "Ultimate Brisby's Fan Page" and found a link to the Patriots List, an e-mail discussion board that was a new concept to Bob.  Bob joined, and found an audience for his Patriot articles.  This led to spirited discussions with incredibly knowledgeable Patriot fans worldwide, and Bob's articles fed the discussion frenzy.  With Edo "Erdoboy" Fackler's input on web design (and introducing Bob to ICQ), and with more help from his brother, Bob's site grew bigger and added more features, such as out-of-town newspaper links, team schedules and weekly trivia questions.

Bob later joined discussion boards related to the Celtics, Bruins and Red Sox. Bob posts articles for the Celtics as well as the Patriots, and authors lots of Red Sox articles too.  Bob also enjoys writing about the Olympics when they roll around, and has a page devoted to the Olympics.  And like many other web owners, Bob has a page dedicated to other fan sites and their links. 

Eventually, the website began to undergo changes, as most websites do from time to time. The entire website was revamped in early 1998. Later that summer, after over a year on GeoCities, the website relocated to Tripod. The website stayed there until late 1998, when Bob created the domain "www.bobgeorge.com" and moved the entire website to that address.

Best Of Boston Sports! ran nearly a year at that address. On September 21, 1999, Bob moved the website once again to a new address, and took the momentous step of renaming the website. After two and a half years as Best Of Boston Sports, Bob renamed his website BOSSPORTS, keeping the old title in the logo as a slogan. The new domain name then became "www.bossports.com". In the fall of 2001 the website changed to a new server and was renamed "www.bossports.net", its current address.

Bob sincerely hopes that all Boston Sports fans continue to enjoy his site, and welcomes any feedback or comments.

Bob George is a big Boston sports fan, and a transplant from the east coast to the sun and fun of California.  Writing these articles in his spare time, as well as communicating with fans over the Internet has kept him closely in touch with his favorite teams.

He was born in Worcester, Mass. in 1958 and grew up near Springfield.  Bob holds college degrees from UMass Amherst and the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.  He moved to California in 1983 and has been living in the Bakersfield area ever since.  He's a full time teacher, husband and father of three.

An avid sports fan, he is also a musician and a full fledged computer nerd.  Bob is the webmaster for five different web sites.

Bob's sportswriting philosophies were formed by reading the works of the established writers and by listening to what the fans like and don't like in sports journalism.  He thinks that sportswriters should speak their minds and tell it like it is.  "But you need to do it in a way that is fair, light-hearted and respectful. This website has been a great source of joy and a lot of fun to do.  I hope people will continue to read my articles, and I am real happy at the reaction to them."

Bob contributes his articles to the Patriots, Celtics and Bruins discussion boards. His Patriots Page is a member of the AFC East Coalition for NFLFans.com, and was selected as the Top Resource Site. In addition, his Patriots Page received mention in a September 20, 1998 article in The Hartford Courant along with other noted Patriot websites around the world. And in November 1998, Bob was invited to write a weekly column for the online edition of Patriots Football Weekly, the noted and popular weekly publication for the Patriots. This collaboration lasted through the end of the 1998 season.

In the summer of 1999, Bob joined forces with fellow Patriot webmaster Ian Logue (Ian's Patriot's Page, among other credits) and began a new project alongside BOSSPORTS. Bob and Ian joined the Rivals.com network, and together wrote for the patriots.rivals.com page. With Rivals going out of business after the 2000 season, Ian maintained the page on a local level, and renamed it PatsFans.com. Ian is the webmaster, Bob is primary commentary contributor. Both Bob and Ian are excited at the prospect of reaching many Patriot fans across the region.

Bob enjoys writing sports articles on the Internet. It has become a full-blown hobby, but more importantly it has kept him close to his fellow Boston sports fans despite living in California. Bob never forgets his New England roots, and still carries with him a deep, emotional sense of what it is like to be a Boston sports fan.