Today, I'm saying goodbye to this blog space, which has been my daily home for almost two years now.

I started this blog more for me than you.  I needed an outlet for all my frustrations with the lack of original thinking in the mainstream media coverage of the sports and athletes we follow so closely.

Despite the blindfold of fanaticism, the sports fan can be very smart.

Just this week, we saw the World Cup Final draw ratings worthy of an NBA Finals or World Series Game 7.  And then two days later, the All-Star Game reached a record low on the eyeballs meter. 

The sports fan knows when it counts.  We invented baseball and hold it dear as our national pastime, but you cannot fool us into thinking an exhibition will stir our souls quite like the biggest soccer match on the globe.

Sports are live drama.  They may not always be scripted as well as Mad Men or Breaking Bad, but they strike at the emotional cord of anyone who dares to get invested. 

I've had some of the greatest highs and lows of my life simply watching young men run through, by and around each other.  While my chosen career covering sports has changed my perspective, I'll get out of the industry before I lose the childlike passion that drew me into this world.

I thank iBNSports.com for providing me the platform to express my cynical, sarcastic, sometimes hopeful, but always original pontifications on the ever changing sports landscape. 

I never found out how many people read the blog.  I don't really care.  If there were 5, 50 or 500 of you checking it on a regular basis, I appreciate the support and interaction.  I hope I delivered what was promised, "a fresh perspective on the world of sports."

I asked Jim Gray to help me with this announcement, but he's emceeing a Bar Mitzvah this weekend, so I'll tell you I'm taking my talents to USC.

I'll be blogging for USCTrojans.com as well as contributing on-air in a variety of capacities.  While I know I'm narrowing the scope a bit, I hope anyone interested in the Trojans will follow me there.  You can always keep tabs on me on Twitter (MooreSports).

My favorite quote was said by the quotemaster himself Winston Churchill, "History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."

I might have taken his advice too literally. 

I'll keep writing as long as you keep reading.  Thank you for your support and interest.  We'll talk again soon.

Enter Sandman...  Who better to close it out?