: About Me

Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pa. I hauled off to Penn State University when I was 18 to learn how to become an English teacher for five years. At 23 I wound up outside of Baltimore, Md. where I became a salesman of industrial and construction supplies. Eventually I became a manager of one of those industrial supply stores and headed west to explore San Francisco.

With the proliferation of blogs and the like I've found myself frequenting several forums to practice my writing in my spare time. I write frequently about the NFL (and, specifically, the Pittsburgh Steelers) at Sports Illustrated's Fan Nation site. Hopefully I'll be teaching English here in San Fran sometime in the next couple of months.

My passion is ...

Whatever is around.

I know too much about ...

Nothing. Well, maybe beer. And football. But that's it.

My parents always told me ...

I'm not sure; I never listened.

My childhood ambition ...

To be a game show host. And a firefighter.

My favorite memory ...

Summers in college.

Why I write ...

Because I can't draw

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series/Man vs. Wild/Common

My first job ...

Caddy

Politics, News & Issues > Football News & Opinion Is the bad press facing the NFL's 2007 New England Patriots fair or foul?

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The Patriots got caught with their hands in the cookie jar week one when it was revealed that a Patriots associate was caught videotaping the New York Jets sideline. Bill Belichick, the surly, sweatshirt clad mastermind of one of the most successful sports teams of the past decade, publicly danced his way around accusations that he knowingly skirted the rules. I, like many people, found it completely absurd that a man of Belichick's mental capacity and attention to detail was somehow unable to understand a rule that states in part, " . . . no video recording devices of any kind are permitt...

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