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Hey guys, my name is John. I am currently a sophomore at the University of Connecticut studying math education. I've always had a passion for Sports Journalism so that's why I'm here. I live on Long Island, NY and am a Yankee fan despite my parent's being Sox and Mets fans. For some reason I'm also a Denver Broncos fan. I've been since 1996 so I've been a fan before they won their first Super Bowl. Obviously, a Huskies fan too! Hopefully we'll bring a National Championship to Storrs this year.

As for athletics, I started playing baseball and soccer when I was little. After a couple years it was all baseball for me. I played 2B mostly but moved wherever my coach needed me. I could field any position better than anyone else in the league but I couldn't hit the damn ball. I was also perhaps the only kid traded in Little League. My travel coach needed to have me on his team apparently.

When I got to junior high, I started running cross-country and track. When I realized I was pretty decent at that, I stayed with it. During my senior year in high school, I was named All-County in each of the 3 running seasons (cross-country, winter track, spring track.) By the time I graduated my times were: 9:54 in the 3200 (2 miles), 4:40 in the 1600 (1 mile), 2:07 in the 800 (1/2 mile). I ran on and off during sophomore and junior year with a broken foot so my times never improved really until senior year. I don't run at the collegiate level because of that broken foot, but I still try to run when I get the chance. My goal is to run a marathon in the next year or so.

John's Recent Articles

How Will the World Baseball Classic Impact Fantasy Baseball?

Published 10 months ago
685 reads 9 comments

Should the Yankees Consider Signing Former Mets and Sox Ace Pedro Martinez?

Published 10 months ago
1,127 reads 27 comments

Commish for a Day: What I Would Change in MLB with My Day in Office

Published 10 months ago
81 reads 2 comments

Veteran Free Agents Are Plentiful: Where Will They End Up?

Published 10 months ago
3,563 reads 1 comments

See 14 more of John's articles »

John Writes About

MLB (14),
New York (11),
Opinion (8),
AL East (7),
New York Yankees (7),
Breaking News (5),
Boston (4),
NL East (4)

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Favorite Athletes

Derek Jeter, John Elway, David Eckstein
Favorite Sports Teams

New York Yankees, Denver Broncos, Connecticut Huskies
Favorite Coaches

Joe Torre, Ron Gardenhire, Bobby Cox, Mike Shanahan, Rod Marinelli, Joe Paterno
All Time Sports Moment

Denver Broncos led by John Elway win their first Super Bowl in 1997.
Most Memorable Game Attended

My first ever Yankees game, Boston @ New York September 22, 1996. Red Sox had a kid named Arquimedez Pozo and, being just 6, I just loved the name. Also, the Yankees beat my dad's Sox turning me into a Yankees fan for life. OR it could be when I was in Philadelphia. Chase Utley got his first major league hit (GRAND SLAM) and later that day Jimmy Rollins handed me his partially broken baseball bat.
Most Unbreakable Sports Record

Nobody will ever touch Wins records, IP, or Complete Games, but I feel picking those records is cheating so how about Hershisher's 59 consecutive scoreless innings
Ruth or Mays?

Your asking a Yankees fan so The Babe.
Jordan or Russell?

MJ
Gretzky or Orr?

I saw Gretzky live so I'm going with him.
Federer or Sampras?

Federer is just so dominant.
Tiger or Nicklaus?

Tiger's got no competition so Nicklaus
Petty or Earnhardt?

Dale E
Pac 10, Big 12, Big 10, SEC, ACC, or Big East?

I'm a Husky so I have to go with the Big East

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by Thaddeus
7 months ago

Hey,
Ever wonder about those players or teams who come and go before we know what happened? Well I've got a list of those one year wonders. Thanks for the read.
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/150468-the-nfls-greatest-one-year-wonders
by Mike
8 months ago

Look at me, both a Met fan and Yankee fan. What do you think?

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/131865-rooting-for-both-the-mets-and-yankees-it-can-happen
by Mike
9 months ago

We have are new communality leaders for the New York page !!!!!
Jordan Schwartz, Michael Schlossberg and Travis Rand.

Travis Rand said that he will do it but now we need to ask Jordan Schwartz and Michael Schlossberg to come in and join
PLZ help me show them that we want them
by Mike
9 months ago

Now that we got the NY page under way we need a Community leader so you can vote on this page.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/115060-the-ny-sports-page-need-a-community-leader-who-should-it-be

Who knows , you may be the next Community leader
by Mike
9 months ago

welcome to the Crusade, PLZ make yourself a fan at :

http://bleacherreport.com/new-your-sports

you dont really need to do much, if you write a article about a NY team put it on that page and if you can PLZ spreed the word of the site to all NY fans

And lets beg Angel Navedo to be are community leader.
by Mike
9 months ago

Hi , did you see the NY sports page on BR? it is not doing to well. it only has 4 fans, i think we should make it better and take the page under are wing, its time to for us to represent NY and show the world what this great place is all about. I asked Angel Navedo to be the community leader, we will see what he says. Are you in ?
by Garrett
9 months ago

John,

When you think of the ultimate football player, who do you think of?I think of one guy. I think of Larry Fitzgerald. Let me know what you think.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/113682-larry-fitzgerald-if-anyone-deserves-it-its-him?just_published=1
by Isaac
9 months ago

John:

I spent 3 days on this. I'd like you to comment to know your opinion.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/112048-08-and-98-the-90-year-difference-between-the-greatest-baseball-years
by Zach
9 months ago

Haha no problem. Good work "busting" my regression-to-the-mean theory. :)
by Deb
9 months ago

Oh I am not much of a writer but I emailed you. And keep with the writing.
by Jacob
9 months ago

No problem. Happens to me all the time. Really enjoyed the article and I'm definitely gonna take that into consideration during my draft.
by Patrick
10 months ago

Hey John - I look forward to reading your new dig - welcome back. I just got done writing my first 2 since returning after taking a few months off too. What can I say, its Hot Stove Season :o)
by Henry
10 months ago

Hey John, thanks for the fan add! A Bronco fan in New York, that's good to see! We're all across America!
by Brandon
11 months ago

Hey John,
Thanks for adding my recent article as a favorite. That means a lot.

Brandon
by Zander
about 1 year ago

John—went ahead and added the Donald Brown tag.

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Veteran Free Agents Are Plentiful: Where Will They End Up?

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