it's been a long time since i've written, too long, but that's because we've been super busy... building out a whole slew of new features and functions that lets you customize your groups and profile - better calendar, better blogs, better media uploader, better home page, widgets and even more from our pro athletes. even as we build it, the community is growing. to see hundreds of new profiles springing up on the site daily, to peruse the new team pages and group sites going up and linking to each other, to view the thousands of shared photos and to read the comments back and forth between members... that is weplay in action... that is the vision working.

teams from just about every sport, from rugby to softball to wrestling, are making weplay a fundamental component of their organizational strategy. pop warner, asa anda bunch of national YSOs are on board and helping us reach out to hundreds of thousands of coaches, parents, league organizers and young athletes.

and you couldn't ask for better role models. the fact that derek, peyton manning, lebron james and jennie finch are blogging on weplay... and really blogging, not something their agents or publicists create... is amazing. They're posting tons of old videos and photos here on pretty much a daily basis at this point. lebron and brandi chastain are even putting up videos from their summer camps, which don't exist anywhere else on the web!

yesterday we rolled out the first of several upcoming promotions that will no doubt attract even more members to the site. If you haven't discovered it by now, weplay is offering up a trip to new york for you and your entire family to meet derek jeter. In the last season ever at yankee stadium, you can hang out with the captain before a yankees game and ask him how he always comes up with the clutch hit when his teammates need him most, as he did twice already this week (unless he writes about that in his next blog, in which case you need to find something else to ask him).

but to know what's coming in the next week, the next few weeks and months ahead is what gets me really rolling and getting into the office earlier and earlier every day... take a look at the photo below - thisis the back wall of our office right now, there are seriously hundreds of color-coded index cards taped up there with projects we've got in the pipeline to build a bigger, better and badder weplay experience, things like message boards, enhanced calendar and schedule tools, resource centers for each sport, weplays of the month, member recognition and tutorials from our pro athletes.

so stay tuned because the best is yet to come.