The NextRound Update:

It’s the end of the month so that means it’s time for everyone’s favorite non-porn website’s monthly update.

Overall, we’ve seen some really steady growth over the last two months that we’re excited about. Somehow–miraculously–we’ve made it this far without irreparably screwing things up AND we appear to be continuing to head in the right direction. (Scary, we know.) Since that’s the case, NextRound will be moving forward with several initiatives in the near future. With so much to communicate, we’re going to rely on our trusty friend the bullet point.

• Somewhere in the next three weeks, we’ll be merging the home page for NextRound.net and StillAwesome.com together to alleviate confusion and have all facets of the website easily accessible in one place. We would have done this sooner–or from the beginning–except until recently we chalked up interest in the stuff we wrote to being a fluke. Since that doesn’t seem to be the case we’re going to start dedicating even more resources to our Still Awesome commentary. Thanks to you for helping us prove that the baseless ramblings of a punch of jackasses can be a real crowd pleaser. Keep your eyes open for the new home page.

• We’re right at a month away from college football kickoff and–needless to say–we’re in full-on ‘froth at the mouth’ mode. And as promised, starting tomorrow, NextRound’s very own sports investment guru will be making his presence known in a new feature, “The H-Man Cometh”. He’s going to spend the next four weeks breaking down each individual college football conference from a sports wagering perspective. From there he will be providing his weekly picks during the season. We’re still trying to determine whether we’re more excited about the upcoming season or his picks. (And we must once again stress the H-Man is not Booth.)

• Since we are roughly a month away from football season and the H-Man will soon be thickening your wallets, keep in mind setting up an online account through our Bodog links on the site. Bodog is a tremendous/non-shady service and each account set up through our links goes a long way in supporting the site. (Checking out the Google ads never hurt either.)

• And lastly, over the next few months we’ll be working on an overhaul of the NextRound team pages that will officially move them from the current Beta (work in progress) stage to much more of a finished product. We’ll be doing major upgrades to the team pages (both setup and functionality) that should culminate in a final product that is close to what we’ve envisioned since day one. With that in mind, we’d very much appreciate feedback and suggestions from everyone who has used the team pages in order for us to take multiple viewpoints into consideration. Please feel free to contact us at info@nextround.net with even the most asenine of comments or suggestions. The more random the better.

And now, as always, what you’ve been waiting for…

The Team Cool & Tough Update:

Every month we highlight the latest happenings of everyone’s favorite crew of socially challenged twentysomething dudes. In quasi-chronological order, here are things that went down last month (as logged on Team Cool & Tough’s team page on NextRound.net).

• As has been well advertised, Booth got fired. Hands down the best suggestion for how Booth should earn money in the meantime came from JB: “Why don’t you just teach lessons on how to slay bitches?”

• Steve Irony suggested that blackmailed Miss New Jersey could possibly be a future replacement for Slutty Miss USA as the site’s mascot. But as Old Balls S-Mac pointed out: unlike Slutty Miss USA, Miss NJ “looks to have a meaty set of thighs and probably a big dumper.” She’s also from New Jersey and her favorite past time is skeeball, so that took her out of the running.

• Two days before our trip to Canadia for Toast’s bachelor party, we formulated a Cheater’s scorecard to help quantify the age old question, What Really Is Cheating? It looked something like this: Heavy Petting (+1), Suck Face Session (+2), Boobie Action (+3), F Blast (+4), Knocking it Out of the Park (+6), and Eating a Pizza Off Some Dude’s Back (+10). The only problem was that we couldn’t unanimously resolve what total score actually constituted cheating before the trip. There were many differing opinions and angles (”Does the same girl on separate occasions count double?”). The debate rages on.

• We nominated the CEO who built a secret underground basement to support his prostitute/drug problem to the Still Awesome Hall of Fame.

• JB continued to champion Claire Danes (Claire Danes?) as an on-the-rise hottie to the rest of the group. He even suggested her for Hump Day. He met a lot of resistance. If you’re willing to sacrifice ten minutes of your life, he’ll try to sway you as well.

• Maske finally saw “Live Free or Die Hard” and–minus the crappy name and lame Kevin Smith cameo–walked out completely bullshit that this movie didn’t get more hype and that he ever doubted John McClane. Steve Irony concurred to the movie’s awesomeness.

• A few days after our return from Windsor, JK (Winner of Mr. Canadia) informed everyone of the 2 pints of Absolut that were charged to his room without his knowledge. Denials from all members of Team C&T followed at a rapid pace.

See you next month.

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