About

Patrick has covered sports and current events for more than 20 years. He is an attorney with a private practice in Omaha, Nebraska, and the Chief Judge of the Winnebago Tribal Court. His writing has appeared in print in the Omaha CityWeekly, the Nebraska Lawyer, the UNO Gateway, Millard Avenues, and the Omaha Pulp, and online on AlterNet.org, ESPN.com, and Guardian.co.uk.

Short List

  • Favorite Athletes

    Tommie Frazier, Eric Crouch, Matt Hasselbeck, Landon Donovan

  • Favorite Sports Teams

    Nebraska Cornhuskers, Creighton Bluejays, New York Yankees, Seattle Seahawks, Team USA soccer, Nebraska-Omaha Mavericks, Iowa Hawkeyes

  • Favorite Coaches

    Tom Osborne, Bo Pelini

  • All Time Sports Moment

    January 01, 1995. Nebraska 24, Miami 17. Dr. Tom finally gets the monkey off his back, beating the Hurricanes in their own back yard to win the first of his three national championships

  • Most Memorable Game Attended

    In 2008, I finally got to see a game at Yankee Stadium before they knocked it down

  • Most Unbreakable Sports Record

    Joe-D's consecutive-game hit streak

  • Ruth or Mays?

    Ruth.

  • Unitas or Montana?

    Montana.

  • Jordan or Russell?

    Jordan.

  • Gretzky or Orr?

    Gretzky.

  • Pele or Maradona?

    Pele.

  • Federer or Sampras?

    Federer.

  • Tiger or Nicklaus?

    Tiger.

  • Petty or Earnhardt?

    Couldn't care less.

  • Schumacher or Senna?

    Schumacher.

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

    The BeeOneGee

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  • Joseph Ciraco posted 195 days ago

    Joseph Ciraco

    I really enjoy your articles, nice work!

  • JT Skarda posted 233 days ago

    JT Skarda

    Patrick, that ain't I.M.Hipp's picture in your top 50. That's Wonder Monds. Who, BTW, maybe should also be in the list if Steve Damkroger is. Hard to argue with any of the others though.

  • michael daniels posted 263 days ago

    michael daniels

    what up

  • Nabeel Khokhar posted 269 days ago

    Nabeel Khokhar

    Hi Patrick, Thanks for your comment on my article about Liverpool FC chants and song. I see that you are writing primarily about football. Was great to have you come across the pond and read and comment on our 'football' :-)

    Cheers mate and I hope you have a great day.
    Nabeel

  • Garrett Derr posted 284 days ago

    Garrett Derr

    Hey man I wrote an article about the Top 10 Pro Athletes Who Would Make Good UFC Fighters. Would love to hear what you think man. http://bleacherreport.com/articles/817080-10-pro-athletes-that-would-make-good-ufc-fighters

  • john cory posted 291 days ago

    john cory

    Patrick, your advice to Pelini in many ways is good advice to all college football coaches. Only some relates to Pelini alone but then again probably applies to everyone at some time.
    Watching the all access program last night on OU you can see how Stoops really does your point about spending time with the kids, this was a great program in case you missed it and can still catch it on espn.

  • S Christensen posted 317 days ago

    S Christensen

    It's funny how NE fans slam MU any chance they get but your top two wins (I would agree that most NE fans feel this way) are against MU. Good luck in the big 10 and pulling kids out of MO and TX. No worries the kids in NE, Iowa and SD are much more skilled you should be fine. "make the world a better place run over St. Bo's face". later NE-bags.

  • john cory posted 323 days ago

    john cory

    Patrick, I don't know how else to say it other than lay it out-the Humor articles just don't read well and therefore don't come accross as funny. I don't know how to change it , maybe more in your face obsurd things. I guess a good example is you have to really go far out on something about Bo and his behavior to make it seem funny, in fact you would probably have to go the direction of him being a boy scout or closet ballerina. Just an fyi , didn't want to include this in comments on your article.

  • S C posted 351 days ago

    S C

    Please use its and it's correctly. Its is the possessive of it. It's = it is or it has. There is no such thing as its'.

  • Glenn Coles posted 510 days ago

    Glenn Coles

    I think you're missing the point on the sailor-gate incident. First off, Lisa Horne didn't create the story Bo did. I listened to the audio where Bo said he was going to give the kid the "honor of calling a play". It didn't sound like a joke to me and apparently it didn't sound like a joke to a number of others. So, Bo is guilty of what? A misunderstanding? Poor joke telling? I'll grant you that. but secondly, all Bo had to do to get in front of this was say he was sorry for the misunderstanding. Sounds pretty simple to me. For a well-paid high profile leader that talks about character it should've been a no brainer. Instead, the reporter is a tagged a Bo basher and it's all her fault. That's not the way I see it, not at all.

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