Before I say anything else about me, I'll say this: blame my father.
Blame my father first for paving the way by building a well-rounded journalism career that I could see myself following from a very early age.
Blame my father for bringing me to fantasy baseball auction drafts shortly after I could walk (if you haven't been involved in an auction draft I'll just say this: set aside a minimum of five hours and prepare to be enthralled by five-minute-plus debates over the worth of Edwin Encarnacion or Chris Coghlan) and leaving me with an insatiable fantasy sports addiction to date.
Blame my father for uprooting me from my home in small town Iowa at the age of 3 for a better opportunity with a newspaper in the "big city" (Lincoln, NE). Blame my father for then establishing our roots in Lincoln, yet keeping our allegiances to the powerhouses of back home (the Iowa Hawkeyes and the Iowa State Cyclones), thus setting me up for arguments (would love to say debates, but you just can't debate with a Husker fan) throughout my childhood over the value of the forward pass vs. the triple option.
Blame my father for instilling in me a deep passion for everything Bay Area in sports (well, not quite everything, sorry Raiders and A's) thus leaving me in an endless cycle of being the fan of the away team. I have really forgotten what it's like not to be annoyed by the constant cheering of home fans or the overwhelming boos at the first pickoff attempt of a player with 40-plus steals.
And to further the point, blame my father for helping nurture my love of the game of basketball through year-round leagues and basketball camps across the Midwest, yet never giving me a team to cheer for save for Marcus Fizer and Jamal Tinsley's days in Ames, Luke Recker and Dean Oliver's days in Iowa City, or (you had to know it was coming to this) Golden State upsetting the Dallas Mavericks to reach the second round of the playoffs.
My writing can be opinionated. My writing can be biased. But for the most part, I try to keep everything as objective as I learned it had to be during five long years at the University of Nebraska's College of Journalism.
Check me out on B/R if you have time where with the exception of my first article (which earned me 5,000-plus reads and a promotion to Featured Columnist) I write about any and everything Golden State Warriors. I also write part time covering high school events for a few papers in South Florida if you want to Google those.
Hope you enjoy my articles and I try to respond to as many comments as I can. And if you're not a fan...well...just blame my father for that, too.
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