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Marquette Internet Forum History

Geocities Ahoya (1997)

A small, free website was created by Mike Juno with very limited resources. Included was a flat-file guest book that still exists today: http://us.geocities.com/mdjge2/geobook.html

At some point in 1999, SportsOnly.com opened forums for sports fans, and Juno moved his forum there. The website is no longer active: http://www.sportsonly.com/a/6025

RingOutAhoya.com (1997-2006)

RingOutAhoya.com debuted in December of 1997 as the “Unofficial Marquette Golden Eagles Homepage”. The site contained things such as a list of the greatest MU games ever, a guestbook where fans from around the world could say hello, and game recaps. In 1998 a message board was added to the site, and the site's popularity began to grow.

In 1999 Mike Juno, signed a contract with Rivals.com, a Seattle-based Internet company that set out to create the best network of unofficial sports sites anywhere. This is when the site's name officially changed to Ahoya.com. Although Rivals was successful at designing a quality product, they could not make enough money to stay afloat financially, and folded in April 2001.

The AllianceSports Network- the “new Rivals”: This network, staffed by a number of ex-Rivals employees took over in 2001.

In July of 2001 Ahoya.com teamed with DoddsOnSports.com to form Ahoya/DoddsOnSports, the ultimate site for Marquette Basketball fans. John Dodds was a radio personality who previously worked in Marquette's Athletic office. He is currently the team statistician.

In 2004, Juno and Dodds had a falling out over editorial policy, and Dodds created a new website called MarquetteHoops.com. After Dodds' departure, forum poster and part time contributor “UncleJohn” replaced him as moderator.

In 2005, as Juno had little time to administer the busy forum, “SoCalWarrior” and “Alum91” joined “UncleJohn” as moderators for RingoutAhoya. Shortly after the addition of the new moderators, “UncleJohn” left due to a disagreement regarding board content. Later, Rivals.com approached Alum91 who took over the publishing duties from Juno. After one season, Alum91 became irritated with Rivals.com's management and resigned. RingOutAhoya.com died shortly thereafter.

MarquetteHoops.com (2004-)

In 2004, John Dodds and Jim Ganzer (“IWB - Irritated White Boy”) created a new website with extensive recruiting and insider information. Some of the premium information and fine articles come at a cost of a subscription to the Scout.com network, $89/year.

MarquetteHoops.com

CrackedSidewalks.com (2005-)

On Jaunary 25, 2005, NY Warrior and Marquette92 formed a “blog” on Marquette basketball. It quickly became a must-read website for Warrior fans, with articles on recruits, pre- and post-game analysis, clips of articles around the web, and much more original content. Since its inception, CrackedSidewalks has added a few other writers to their team including Marquette84, MU_Hilltopper and Henry Sugar. It has a daily readership of around 2,000 during the season.

CrackedSidewalks.com

MUScoop.com (2006-)

After the demise of RingOutAhoya.com in 2006, rocky_warrior, Spiral97 helped by SoCalWarrior, and MU_Hilltopper, formed a new website to fill the void. The website is dominated by an active message forum, game-time chat, and the wiki you are reading right now!

Marquette Wiki
MUScoop.com

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