National recognition for Sports section

The Daily Chronicle's Sports section made history this week at the Associated Press Sports Editors' contest judging in Kissimmee, Fla.

The section was named one of the 10 best Sports sections in the country for papers with a circulation under 20,000. Our prep football preview section also was named one of the 10 best special sections in the country for papers under 20,000 in circulation.

The two section awards are believed to be the first in Daily Chronicle history. You might recall that APSE in December named Daily-Chronicle.com / HuskieWire.com one of the 10 best sports Web sites in the country for sites with under 1 million unique visitors.

On top of that, Daily Chronicle Sports Editor Jon Styf and Sportswriter John Sahly were named top 10 columnists nationally for newspapers with circulation under 40,000. A winner in that contest will be named at a later date.

Three of Sahly's columns in his entry include this column about Justin Anderson's game-saving fake punt run at Purdue, this column on P.J. Fleck preparing the Northern Illinois football team for its game against Western Illinois and a column about some of the nonsensical aspects of NIU's 2009 football schedule.

On a personal note, a big thank you goes out to our readers. None of this is possible without you and I appreciate all of the feedback you've given me in my two years here in DeKalb.