well I am the creator of the website that Wheaton comes from.
www.DucksAttack.com/Forum
I started that site as my own blog about Oregon athletics. At the time I had changed my major to electronic media and thought it'd be a good idea for practice.
After I did the blog for awhile I made a message board with a friend and it caught fire. We just got our 1000th member.
Around May I was contacted by ESPN to write for the new Duck site, DuckTerritory.com. After a few articles for them I was contacted again by the Bama site, CrimsonConfidential.com to write for them.
So for about 3 months I've done those two sites while trying to keep up with my own.
Then at Oregon we got word of Josh Selby leaving UT and having Oregon as a possible school of interest. Trying to get his number and contact stuff I got VolFreak's email and we chatted about Selby. Told Freak I'd write something for you guys if I spoke to Selby as a favor to getting me the info.
Then after I wrote I said I'd love to help out with more if he wanted it. He felt nice enough to give me a gig here, and thats how I got here.
I've found the more sites I work for the more info I have for each school as I am familiar with more and more schools needs/wants/and desires.
I love this kind of work and am hoping to do it full time eventually.