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This web page is dedicated to the former quarterback of the UCLA football team and NFL QB. This is an unofficial webpage. Disclaimer: This is a personal webpage and is not endorsed by or associated with McNown, the UCLA Football Program, or the NFL in any manner.
Awards/Honors
The Cade McNown Page received Wall Street Journal attention on August 7, 1998. This page was one of only four college football sites featured in the "Sports Journal" section of the Wall Street Journal. It was the only site which featured a player and the only fan-created site as well. It's a great honor since one of the featured sites was the well-known and reputable "The Sporting News" page. This is what the journal had to say about this page: "Every year brings more Heisman Trophy hype, and Cade McNown--who has been the starting quarterback at UCLA since '95--probably will be in the running this year. This fan-created site has a huge archive of recent articles on him and UCLA football. And the "images" link features an astounding 55 photos of Mr. McNown (See him run! See him meet Troy Aikman! See him on the cover of magazines!) available for downloading."
The Cade McNown Page was featured in the Columbus (Ga.) Ledger-Enquirer on September 27, 1998 in the article "Web Sites Offer Plethora of Sports Facts - Net Becoming Limitless Media for College Athletic Programs, Its Athletes"
The Cade McNown Page has been inducted into the Colosseum Hall of Fame, recognizing it as one of the best sites the Colosseum has to offer.
The Cade McNown Page has received the Colosseum Sports Excellence Award for the month of January 1999 from Geocities.
The Cade McNown Page has been honored by Geocities for it's recognition in the mainstream media on the "GeoCitizens In The News" page.
On January 31, 1999, the editors at Britannica selected The Cade McNown Page as "one of the best on the Internet when reviewed for quality, accuracy of content, presentation and usability. "
In December 1999, The Cade McNown Page was honored as a "Cool Site" by The Open Directory Project.
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WEB SITES OFFER PLETHORA OF SPORTS FACTS NET BECOMING LIMITLESS MEDIA FOR COLLEGE ATHLETIC PROGRAMS, ITS ATHLETES Sunday, September 27, 1998 Troy Johnson, Staff Writer
College football fans surfing the Internet can be overwhelmed by a veritable tsunami of information. Once looked upon by college fans as a bastion of boosterism, a trading post for game tickets and a tote board for recruits signed and lost, the Web has slowly evolved into a promotional vehicle for football programs large and small. College sports information offices -- and some fans -- have tapped the possibilities of the Net as a limitless medium for extolling the virtues of a college athletic program and its athletes. Home pages paying homage to Heisman Trophy candidates like Kentucky quarterback Tim Couch have sprouted up like weeds in the summertime. There are thousands of Web sites trumpeting the accomplishments of UCLA quarterback Cade McNown, Texas tailback Ricky Williams, Wisconsin running back Ron Dayne, Central Florida quarterback Daunte Culpepper and . . . Marshall quarterback Chad Pennington? Why not? According to the information posted at herdqb.com, Pennington is a Heisman candidate on the basis of his NCAA-leading 39 touchdown passes last season. Central Florida sports information director John Marini, who helps maintain his school's Culpepper home page (www.daunte.ucf.edu), said the Internet is a new forum to sell Heisman Trophy and All-America candidates to the media members who vote on such honors. It's cheaper and timelier than mass-mailings of stat sheets and press releases. ``Our main interest was for journalists to be able to track Daunte's progress, his statistics and records,'' Marini said. ``We've had more than 5,000 hits in a little over a month.'' In addition to providing story fodder for journalists, the sites often provide statistical and biographical data coveted by hardcore football fans. Texas fans, for instance, can track Williams' ascent toward career NCAA records for rushing yardage, yards per carry and rushing touchdowns. Wisconsin's Web site for Dayne (www.wisc.edu/ ath/greatdayne) lists his top rushing performances and features a story on his volunteer work with the Madison (Wis.) Humane Society. UCLA fan [ ] of Los Angeles, Calif., constructed a McNown Web site (www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Sideline/3835) last December to honor one of his favorite players. The site features color action photos of McNown, as well as statistics and an archive of newspaper articles written about him. ``I noticed pages devoted to a few college football players on the Internet and wondered why there wasn't a page for my favorite college athlete,'' [ ] said. ``The page is a way of conveying my admiration of his athletic abilities and leadership, as well as letting others know about his accomplishments.'' [ ]'s page has received more than 7,500 visitors since December. ``I was surprised at how many people visited the page in its first few days of existance, so I decided to improve and actively maintain the page,'' said [ ], who said his site requires a few hours of maintenance work each week. Perhaps the most gratifying response [ ]'s work received came in the form of an e-mail from a certain player's mother. ``Cade's mother e-mails me often and thanked me in person,'' he said. ``She also thanked me on behalf of Cade and mentioned that he has visited the site.''
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. This web
page was created early in the 1997 football season, before most people knew
who Cade McNown was, and became widely accessible to the public in December
1997. The page was visited over 11,000 times in the five month 1998
college football season (my senior year at UCLA).
