Once upon a time, I covered sports for an actual newspaper. You know, that tangible paper-like thing that occasionally smears ink on your fingers and doubles as toilet paper when the cupboard is bare. I covered mostly high school and college sports in the Sacramento area and recently left to become be a full-time panhandler / job-seeker in San Francisco. Pictured is me trying to interview Vicente Escobedo at ARCO Arena in May. Escobedo—who is fighting the undercard of the Mayweather-Marquez fight—did me a rare on-deadline favor that night and won on a second-round knockout leaving me 20 minutes to make deadline.

I graduated from UCSB in 2006 with a degree in Film Studies and a minor in hating National Championships that were decided by penalty kicks. Eat it, Indiana.