Ryan Williams's Sportswriter Profile

Ryan Williams

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NASCAR Hall of Fame: First Five Inductees
July 1, 2009

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Is Jimmy Clausen a Bust After Two Years?
June 28, 2009

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Fighting Irish: Reason For Optimism In South Bend?
June 5, 2009

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Hey all. My name is Ryan. Im pretty new here so Im still trying to learn the ropes. So, if I piss anyone off...oh well. lol Im a huge sports fan. If its a game, match, race, or contest I'll probably watch it. My favorite sports are College football, Baseball, NASCAR, and Golf. Which one is first all depends on the season. If you wanna know more...use you imagination...kidding. Ask away!

Favorite Athletes

Ryne Sandburg, Dale Earnhardt, Michael Jordan, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Payne Stewart, Jim McMahon, Freddy Couples, Kevin Garnett, Phil Mickelson, Jimmy Connor, Tony Stewart, "The Bus", "The Rocket", "Touch Down" Timmy Brown, Zibby, BQ, and The Shark, the whole '84 Cubs roster-and yes I can name them, the whole '88 ND football team
Favorite Sports Teams

Chicago Cubs, The University of Notre Dame, and Dale Earnhardt, (Sr. that is) will always be my top 3. In no particular order. Hendricks Motorsports, Andre Agassi, Chicago Bears, Celtics (only with "the big 3"), Bulls, and Team USA in any sport.
Favorite Coaches

Lou Holtz, Don Zimmer, Richard Childress (crew chief), Bill Cower, Mike Ditka, Joe Moore, Sweet Lou, Phil Jackson (pre Lakers), and last but not least Charlie Weis
All-Time Sports Moment

#1 Coming from the losers bracket to beat the only undefeated team in Little League (14 yr old). I made an unassisted double play from 2nd base in the first game and threw out a guy at 3rd from halfway out in right. #2 Intercepting a last minute pass and returned it 60 yards to seal the victory over a team our JV hadn’t beaten in like 15 years. #1a Dale Earnhardt winning the Daytona 500, Notre Dame beating Miami '88, the Cubs winning NLDS in '03 (I was at a bar in Wrigleyville when it happened. Absolute chaos!!), Kerry Wood sits down 20 Astros in '98
Most Memorable Game Attended

Notre Dame vs. U of M '08 (rained so hard you couldn’t see in the second half), ND vs. USC 2001 (last time ND has beaten SC), Navy (triple o/t defeat) and Duke (only home win) '07, My very first Cubs game June 5, 1998 (Cubs win and I saw Sosa take one deep),
Most Unbreakable Sports Record

King Richards 200 wins
Ruth or Mays?

Mays
Unitas or Montana?

Joe Cool
Jordan or Russell?

Air Jordan all day
Gretzky or Orr?

The Great One
Pele or Maradona?

dont know
Federer or Sampras?

Andre Agassi
Tiger or Nicklaus?

Jack-The skill they had back in the day with such inferior equipment was amazing.
Petty or Earnhardt?

Dale
Schumacher or Senna?

dont care
ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Pac-12 or SEC?

Independent

John Graham posted 1184 days ago

Hope you like this one!
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/352065-mark-mcgwire-a-highlight-of-hypocrisy
Michael Collins posted 1404 days ago

Thanks for the pick, Ryan.
David Wyatt posted 1407 days ago

Notre Dame reel in another prospect for the 2010 class:

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/219644-spencer-boyd-chooses-irish-13th-commit-of-the-2010-class
Mike Kent posted 1410 days ago

What is with the water in Chesapeake Virginia?

They have lots of Great athletes.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/217653-whats-in-the-water-in-chesapeake-virginia
David Wyatt posted 1411 days ago

Hey Ryan, posted my article on where are they now, looking back to the 2002 futures game. Part two, would appreciate some feedback:

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/217195-back-to-the-future-the-2002-futures-game-part-two
David Wyatt posted 1416 days ago

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/214383-key-match-ups-in-the-notre-dame-2009-season
David Wyatt posted 1417 days ago

For my 20th article here at BR, i decided to produce a all time team for Major League Baseball, give it a look and let me know what you think:

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/213326-major-league-baseball-all-time-dream-team
Kara Martin posted 1422 days ago

Hey Ryan, Welcome aboard, like LJ said give us a shout if you need anything at all! I am a huge Junior fan & I am so hoping that this weekend's race will be the one to turn things around for him. I have chosen him for my B/R Fantasy pick this week, so I am expecting great things! He is long overdue for a win & this is one of the tracks that he truly shines at. It is going to be a helluva race!
L.J. Burgess posted 1425 days ago

Dawg...you need assistance, resources, edits, someone to argue with (really gets the comments going ya know), encouragement or a smack...drop me a line.

I see that you're a #3 guy...bleh. ;0P

Seriously, you need anything in/from Motorsports, grab me or Kelly or Kara Martin.

Good luck wid dat Irish thing too!
David Wyatt posted 1426 days ago

Hi Ryan

I thought you might be interested in my latest work on Notre Dame:

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/208542-5-reasons-why-notre-dame-will-silence-the-critics-this-year

(Just about to check your ND article out, if you ever want any feedback, then please leave a post on my page letting me know you have written a new article)