Oh yeah, it’s that time of year again. You’re sitting in Olscamp reading The BG News. Oh the feeling. And I salute you because you’re reading the sports page.

And here’s to hoping you’ll continue to do so all semester long.

At BG, we have a football team with a new head coach willing to do whatever it takes to bring a Mid-American Conference title back to Doyt Perry Stadium, a women’s basketball team that has won five straight regular season MAC titles, a men’s basketball team coming off a MAC regular season title and a hockey team fighting hard for its existence, not to mention the other smaller sports ‘- many of which are successful year in and year out.

And if you want info on those teams, you’ve come to right place. Want more than we have in the print edition? No problem, we’re just a click away on your computer too at www.bgnewssports.com and www.twitter.com/bgnewssports.

Now as sports editor, it is my job to ensure my reporters and I provide the content you want, when you want it. But if the football team gets pounded 56-3, don’t expect us to write about how great it was that we scored a field goal ‘- expect the truth about why we got destroyed.

That’s right, we’re not going to be cheerleaders no matter how good or bad things may be going. In the real world of journalism, that’s how it is, and despite being reporters for the campus newspaper, we are all real-world journalists.

The coaches, players and athletic department staff all know and respect this journalistic truth. And now I ask that you, the fans, do the same. If the athletic folks don’t think we’re doing a fair job, they aren’t afraid to let us know. And I’d hope you’d do the same.

Sure I want to see all our teams win championships just as much as the next guy, but there is an announcement in every press box before every game, ‘This is a working press box and cheering will not be tolerated.’ I assure you all my reporters abide by this rule.

And another one of my roles here is to give you an entertaining section of the newspaper and provide coverage of every sport this school has to offer. In fact, outside of the official athlete Web site, ours is the only coverage of many of the smaller sports.

Just remember, The BG News is your newspaper, and we are here to serve you, our public

Your duty in this is to let us know when something doesn’t feel quite right. If you disagree with something we do, we definitely want to know why.

But also remember, this is your school and these are your teams so it’s your job to do the cheering while we do the rest.