About

My name is Doug Rush. I am 29 years old from Toms River, New Jersey.

After four years as the Featured Columnist of the New York Giants and New York Yankees, I have decided to leave Bleacher Report to pursue other options in sports writing.

When I first joined B/R in 2009, it was a no-named website looking to break out. Now that it has, it continues to not pay their writers, and at this stage of my life, that is completely unacceptable. Yes, for four years, I basically did this for free, but in hopes would land a full-time paying gig because of my long-time loyalty. Guess the higher-ups saw differently.

So now, as of March 2013, I will be writing for Giants 101, www.giants101.com, covering breaking news and feature stories solely on the New York Giants.

I leave B/R as their #1 Yankees and Giants writer by an extremely wide margin, an accomplishment I was very proud of, but got unnoticed when it mattered most.

For the fans who followed my work for four years, I thank you all for your support and hope you continue to follow me on Giants 101 (if you're a die-hard fan, you should already be clicking the link to go there.)

Some of my accomplishments from B/R include:

First joined Bleacher Report- June 19, 2009
New York Yankees Featured Columnist- December 23, 2009
New York Yankees Community Leader- March 17, 2010
500,000 reader views- December 19, 2011
New York Giants Featured Columnist- February 4, 2012
1 million reader views- June 25, 2012
New York Giants Community Leader- September 14, 2012
December 2012: over 200k on MLB stories
December 2012: over 200k on New York Yankees stories
2 million reader views- January 7, 2013
Left Bleacher Report- April 12, 2013

Short List

  • Favorite Athletes

    Current: Andy Pettitte, Derek Jeter, Curtis Granderson, Eli Manning, Justin Tuck. Retired: Don Mattingly, Lawrence Taylor, Jesse Armstead

  • Favorite Sports Teams

    New York Yankees, New York Giants

  • Favorite Coaches

    Tom Coughlin, Joe Torre, Lou Piniella, Bill Parcells, Bill Cowher, Tony Dungy, Mike Krzyzewski

  • All-Time Sports Moment

    Super Bowl XLII; Giants 17, Patriots 14....the greatest upset in NFL history.

  • Most Memorable Game Attended

    MLB: June 7, 2002 Giants @ Yankees; first ever baseball game I attended, Mussina outduels Livan, Barry Bonds first game at Yankee Stadium. NFL: December 23, 2000; Jaguars @ Giants, G-Men wrap up #1 seed in NFC in 10 degree weather

  • Most Unbreakable Sports Record

    Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak

  • Ruth or Mays?

    Ruth

  • Unitas or Montana?

    Montana

  • Jordan or Russell?

    Jordan

  • Gretzky or Orr?

    Gretzky

  • Pele or Maradona?

    Pele

  • Federer or Sampras?

    Sampras

  • Tiger or Nicklaus?

    Tiger

  • Petty or Earnhardt?

    Earnhardt

  • Schumacher or Senna?

    n/a

  • ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Pac-12 or SEC?

    SEC

Bulletin Board

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  • Magilla Gorilla posted 2 days ago

    Magilla Gorilla

    Doug, I got curious about where you went. I read your updated profile and got my answer. I do not know how B/R makes its contractual decisions and I have no idea who is compensated for their work and who is not. Nevertheless, I want to thank you for all the excellent reporting and analysis that you have given on the Yankee page. All the best. You are already missed.

  • Hunter Farman posted 22 days ago

    Hunter Farman

    Thank you, Doug.

  • Howard Schloss posted 23 days ago

    Howard Schloss

    You will be missed. Unlike a lot of the others here you were a good sport about the heckling and always seemed to be pretty fair and unbiased in your reporting.

    I'm actually not going to be posting here for too much longer, if you can believe that. Like yourself, the fun has kind of run it's course and it's time to move on to other things.

    I sincerely wish you the best.

    - Goon

    P.S. Regardless, ...Everyone is still laughing at the NY Yankees!

  • Howard Schloss posted 25 days ago

    Howard Schloss

    Rumor has it that you were driven off the site by a troll named Goon, who continuously tormented you for four years.

    Any truth to this rumor?

  • Mickey O'Neill posted 30 days ago

    Mickey O'Neill

    We're going to miss your articles, Doug.

    And yea, I used to write for Bleacher. This is a pseudonym. Their operation is pretty douchey.

  • Kevin Boilard posted 47 days ago

    Kevin Boilard

    Great work in the month of March, Doug. 400k reads is unreal. Keep up the solid coverage.

  • Magilla Gorilla posted 47 days ago

    Magilla Gorilla

    thought you would get a kick out of this story in the Onion.
    http://www.theonion.com/articles/vernon-wells-unsure-how-hell-fit-in-with-aging-ove,31873/

  • Ben Chodos posted 48 days ago

    Ben Chodos

    Thanks for the shout out Doug! I enjoyed your piece, although, as a Packers fan, I would love to see Urlacher end up in the AFC.

  • Andrew Martin posted 56 days ago

    Andrew Martin

    Sorry for any confusion.

  • Andrew Martin posted 56 days ago

    Andrew Martin

    Nothing was posted when I submitted my story. Always more than one side to every breaking story...

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