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Chris's Bio

I'm 23 years old, wow. I have three years of professional writing experience with local newspapers including the Daily Mountain Eagle, The Anniston Star and The Birmingham News. I was an editor for The Chanticleer, student newspaper of Jacksonville State University.
Along with my writing experience, I also have two years experience in radio, including one year as a sports talk show host and one year as a play by play analyst.

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The Short List What Chris thinks about sport's most pressing questions

  • Favorite Athletes

    Current: Peyton Manning, Kevin Garnett, John SmoltzAll-time: Bo Jackson, Larry Bird, Phil Neikro

  • Favorite Sports Teams

    College: Tennessee Vols & UAB BlazahsPro: Atlanta Braves, Boston Celtics, Indy Colts, Nashville PredsArena: Tennessee Valley Vipers, Grand Rapids Rampage

  • Favorite Coaches

    Phil Jackson, Paul "Bear" Bryant

  • All Time Sports Moment

    "Do you believe in miracles? YES!" - Miracle on Ice

  • Most Memorable Game Attended

    2007 Arena Cup in Shreveport, LA. With one final play, AF2 Offensive Player of the Year, QB Ryan Vena of the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Pioneers lofted a perfect pass to Buchie Ibeh. Ibeh dropped the pass, the Tulsa Talons won the Arena Cup.

  • Most Unbreakable Sports Record

    Consecutive games played by Cal Ripken, Jr. or Consecutive shut out innings by the Bulldog

  • Ruth or Mays?

    Willie Mays baby--represent the Alabama boy.

  • Unitas or Montana?

    Unitas was more flamboyant, but Montana won--all the time.

  • Jordan or Russell?

    Jordan, but he had a lot of help.

  • Gretzky or Orr?

    Gretzky. He's not "The Great One" for no reason.

  • Pele or Maradona?

    Pele was awesome!

  • Federer or Sampras?

    Sampras. His rivalry with Aggasi was incredible.

  • Tiger or Nicklaus?

    Tiger is the greatest of all-time.

  • Petty or Earnhardt?

    Sorry, fellas...Davey Allison. No doubt my life long hero.

  • Schumacher or Senna?

    Pft on F-1

  • Pac 10, Big 12, Big 10, SEC, ACC, or Big East?

    Southeastern Conference -- Don't hate

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  1. Hey Chris,

    My bad about the arena football term...I wasn't sure and checked Google and found an article with it written like that so I changed it. I'm glad you changed it back...now I know for next time!

    Keep up the great writing,

    Dan

  2. Nice articles, I'll be keeping up with your stuff.
    GO VIPERS!!!

  3. Thanks Chris. I'll try.

    I don't mind haters, but geez, at least bring some facts to the discussion instead of gossip. This isn't a place to talk about All My Children...

    Look forward to reading your stuff.

    Kevin

  4. Sorry for the last answer, I enjoy watching all New York teams

  5. Hey Chris,

    I always hate when people edit mistakes into my articles. For your article—along with rugby, tennis, cricket etc—I am sort of un-educated (even though I hate to admit it). I have edited one of your articles before and because I didn't go far enough to look into the capitalization on that I am sorry lol. As for the possession problems, I thought it was viper which would then translate to Viper's, but in your case it would be Vipers' you got me on that one. Sorry again for editing in errors!

  6. Hey Chirs—Dave Mo here, a Bleacher Report Community Coordinator.

    I've been spending time on our SEC Football page and read a couple of your old articles. Really on-point analysis...you do good work.

    Given that you haven't written in a while, I thought I'd check in and see if you're interested in picking up your coverage again. What do you say?

    If not, it would be great if you could give me some feedback on why you decided to stop writing and what we could have done to better serve you. If you wouldn't mind, please shoot me a line at dmorrison@bleacherreport.com with any thoughts.

    Thanks so much,

    Dave Mo

  7. Hey Chris,

    I just wanted to let you know that Bleacher Report has launched out of beta with an updated look and feel and some great new features. Check out the "Game On" link in the header to find out more.

    Next week we'll be launching the site to the world with some public announcements—and it'd be great to get a contribution from you between now and Tuesday to make Bleacher Report's launch a success.

    Let me know if you need any help with ideas or have questions. Have a great weekend Chris!

    Zander

  8. Hey Chris-

    Not sure exactly what you are talking about, but confusion is bound to occur when half-finished articles are submitted to the editorial process. I am unable to check on who changed your article's headline, but my only edits were to insert an image and add the words "Ed. note" next to a comment a prior editor had left in your article about it being half-way done. Apologies for the confusion, but I assure you that BR editors are very committed to retaining the voice and intent of the author in each article to the fullest extent possible. Please let me know if you have any more questions.

    Best,
    Mike

  9. In fact I do. First of all, the Dawg Pound is a bunch of drunken, drugged out, lazy, fat, sorry excuses for football fans and are the very reason I choose not to attend Browns games. As for last night, there was one guy who needed to show up in order for OSU to win 'on the road' and that was Boeckman, which he did not. Don't be so quick to judge the Big Ten before you do any futher investigating. Are you aware that LSU oversigned about 18 players to scholarship last year as apposed to 3 for OSU? That's a little shady. I'll tip my hat when the SEC decides to come clean on the issue, let alone playing for a title an hour from home, what a joke. That's like OSU playing in the Shoe for all the marbles!! And remember to thank the great state of OHIO for all of your coaches, since they are all over the conference teaching you southern yellowbellies how to play football!! At least we'll be back next year, we'll see where all of you end up. By the way, nice christmas gift from Wisconsin, what was it 4 turnovers? And you still could only escape with a win in the final minutes?? Whatever, SEC (Shady, Egocentric Conference). GO BIG TEN!! Fidelus et Verus..(Faithful and True)

  10. Chris,

    In reference to your comment on my article. I Have no issue with the BCS, My issue is Human involvement in the polls

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