I'm a 26-year-old graduate from Xavier University, currently laboring away in retail by day while I fight the good fight, trying to land that writing gig by night. I've always been involved in sports, (baseball and basketball in my early years, hockey and soccer later on), and I always yearned for that extra ear to bend in friendly debate. That urge only strengthened when I discovered Sportscenter. I had more information than I knew what to do with, about some sports I didn't even know existed at my fingertips, and I wanted nothing more than to show others that I knew as much, if not more than those getting paid to do what I enjoyed doing for free.

Hockey is my passion, and I still play and thoroughly enjoy the sport that most of this nation treats like a quaint distant relative. It's unfortunate, but with the dogged journalistic efforts of myself and those who agree that it is by far the greatest game in the world, we will restore this game to its rightful place in the pantheon of sports!