Rob's Bio
*As I am a Seventh-day Adventist, I'm unavailable to comment on BR articles between Friday morning and Saturday morning (if you're in North America) or Friday evening through Saturday evening (if you're based in the Asia-Pacific region). If you leave me a message or want me to read something during that time, please be patient.*
Hi there, I'm Rob, your tennis community leader. I've spent most of the last decade in the newspaper business. Newspapers are where you turn when you really want to become informed of current events. Unlike nightly TV or radio news, you can't turn a newspaper on and then not pay attention to it. Unlike internet news, you can't stumble upon a newspaper while you're using a search engine to learn about the latest way Kanye West embarrassed himself.
And no one turns on Keith Olbermann or Glenn Beck because they want to be informed: They just want someone to articulate what they already believe in a better (or at least louder) way.
The life of a newspaperman isn't for everyone: The deadlines are constant, the pay is low, and if only 99 out of 100 sentences are perfect, a reader with no experience in how newsrooms work (or are supposed to work) will call you up and tell you that the mistakes in that one sentence reveal your ideological biases.
Actually, a good newspaperman is biased, but not in the way Rush Limbaugh thinks. We believe, in the words of I.F. Stone, that all governments lie.
Working for a newspaper isn't a job; it's a ministry. The Internet and bloggers compliment it, but the day they replace newspapers entirely will be a sad day for the truth.
Even ministries give a guy some spare time, though, and I like to spend my spare time with my wife and son, as well as writing about tennis and assist others who like writing about tennis. That's what I'm here for, so let me know if I can help you out.
For more information, including non-tennis writings check out www.rjamesyork.blogspot.com.
Rob's Recent Articles
Rob Writes About
- Tennis (142),
- Men's Tennis (99),
- Opinion (74),
- Roger Federer (45),
- Rafael Nadal (37),
- Pete Sampras (27),
- Preview/Prediction (21),
- Women's Tennis (18)
- Hotnuke responded to a comment on Unrealized Potential: Florida Marlins Trade Jeremy Hermida to Boston
- Hotnuke responded to a comment on Unrealized Potential: Florida Marlins Trade Jeremy Hermida to Boston
- Rob York has picked Competitive Fire: Comparing Corretja, Courier, Chesnokov, and Coria as a favorite article
- Bob Warja responded to a comment on Fort Hood Tragedy Places Sports Into Perspective
- Rob York commented on Competitive Fire: Comparing Corretja, Courier, Chesnokov, and Coria
- claudia celestial girl responded to a comment on The Greatest Competitors in Men's Tennis
- J.A. Allen responded to a comment on Andre Agassi: An "Open" and Shut Case...
- Rob York has picked Unrealized Potential: Florida Marlins Trade Jeremy Hermida to Boston as a favorite article
The Short List What Rob thinks about sport's most pressing questions
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Favorite Athletes
Practically all tennis players (Sampras above all), Albert Pujols, Brian Urlacher
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Favorite Sports Teams
St. Louis Cardinals, Chicago Bears
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Favorite Coaches
Mike Ditka, Brad Gilbert, Paul Annacone
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All Time Sports Moment
Sampras vs. Corretja, 1996 US Open Quarterfinals
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Most Unbreakable Sports Record
Probably whatever Grand Slam total Federer ends up with.
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Ruth or Mays?
Mays
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Unitas or Montana?
Unitas
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Jordan or Russell?
Jordan
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Federer or Sampras?
Tilden, Budge, Kramer, Gonzales, Laver, Borg, Sampras and Federer.
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Pac 10, Big 12, Big 10, SEC, ACC, or Big East?
SEC






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about 15 hours ago
HI rob. I wrote a piece that is essentially a comment on your Greatest Competitors piece. Hope you like it!
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/285980-competitive-fire-corretja-courier-chesnokov-and-coria
about 17 hours ago
Rob,
I thought you might like this piece. It’s not just your standard “breaking news” piece about a trade, although it does note the trade of Jeremy Hermida from the Florida Marlins to the Boston Red Sox. Let me know what you think in the comments section.
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/285981-unrealized-potential-florida-marlins-trade-jeremy-hermida-to-boston
Thanks,
Daniel Barber aka Hotnuke
1 day ago
Hi Rob, how are you?
You've got quite the conversation going on over at your Andre Agassi article! lol
If you get a minute, stop by and check out this masterpiece by Bob Warja:
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/285484-come-to-think-of-it-ft-hood-tragedy-places-sports-into-perspective
2 days ago
No :( never before.
Thought it was your original. I take back the "Pick" I gave you.
2 days ago
I really liked that - the reign of error - good one, Rob!
3 days ago
and there is a pick for the Message on the Message Board!
3 days ago
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/284518-near-misses-the-hingis-meltdown-part-i
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/284517-near-misses-the-hingis-meltdown-part-2
3 days ago
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20317243,00.html
Nov 9th is way way way toooo far! :(
3 days ago
Rob, my 'Zone' is now up.
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/284148-in-the-zone-with-roger-federer-part-one
Many thanks for including me.
4 days ago
Hard to believe there aren't even 25 players who reached the top in the 40+ years of open era!
http://www.cbssports.com/tennis/rankings/alltime
4 days ago
Cap, am already missing those 1-paras!
He published on the same match as your Zone, and earlier it could even have happened that his would push yours out of the top of the front page.
I just mentioned a possibility...
4 days ago
Hee Hee, that guy is majoring in Philosophy.
5 days ago
yea - ATP needs to explain some things to us tennis fans in general
partial treatment only cultivates negativity and mistrust
5 days ago
He knew that letting things come out into the open for air is a good thing, and that there's no real down-side to honesty - not once you get past the uncomfortable feeling that you've allowed to world to see a part of you of which you may not be particularly proud, and which doesn't necessarily show you or your loved ones in the best light.
That's just plain wrong; you'd think someone who's always crowing about perceived "injustice" would recognize the difference between performance-enhancing and destructive, debilitating drugs that can only be called "recreational" in the most ironic way. That's why I was so happy this morning to see the Andy Murray item on the BBC website. Is it pure coincidence that Murray is Scottish, and council-housing blocks in his own nation have been notorious for the ghastly toll taken there by heroin addiction?
- Two of the best essence of life -
Loved it as always, perceptive and insightful
5 days ago
"But once he needed the cash, he suddenly felt compelled to clear his conscience.
Agassi’s appears to be a similar case."
yeah... right! A combined sum of over $50M in prize money is a financial crisis. Double that in endorsements, and countless more in his real estate business is a financial crisis!
Either he doesn't know what he is talking about, or this is another cheap way to get some reads.
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