Nick Johnston joined July 2008

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Nick Johnston

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My name's Nick and I'm 18. I've just left school and am studying Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Durham university next year. But my real passion is sport, both playing and watching.

My favourite sport is probably football, I've been a fan of Manchester United for as long as I can remember. But, I also love rugby, particularly Northampton Saints and southern hemisphere rugby.

Since I saw Boston Red Sox in the summer of 1997 at Fenway Park, I have become a huge baseball fan and ultimately, want to watch a World Series game at Fenway Park, but living thousands of miles away makes it kinda hard.

I also love tennis, athletics, american football, cricket and golf (more for playing than watching). Basically I'm a sports enthusiast and keen to provoke and join debates on any sporting topic, whether it's in the pub, at home or here on B/R.

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  • Favorite Athletes

    Andy Murray, Usain Bolt, Cristiano Ronaldo

  • Favorite Sports Teams

    Manchester United, Boston Red Sox, New England Patriots, Northampton Saints

  • All Time Sports Moment

    Manchester United winning the Champions League against Bayern in '99 with two goals in injury time

  • Most Memorable Game Attended

    My first ever Red Sox game, vs. Texas. They lost, but I was hooked for life

  • Most Unbreakable Sports Record

    Cal Ripken Jr.'s 2,632 consecutive games for the Orioles and his 17 straight all-star starts

  • Ruth or Mays?

    Gotta be Mays, I can't say anything good about Ruth

  • Unitas or Montana?

  • Jordan or Russell?

    Jordan, obviously

  • Gretzky or Orr?

  • Pele or Maradona?

    Pele

  • Federer or Sampras?

    Federer

  • Tiger or Nicklaus?

    Tiger for so many reasons

  • Petty or Earnhardt?

  • Schumacher or Senna?

    Schumacher

  • Pac 10, Big 12, Big 10, SEC, ACC, or Big East?

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Goutham Babu said...

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Hello pls read my second part of Funniest soccer quotes ever..i think you read the first one so here is the second..
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/155881-funniest-soccer-quotes-ever-pt-2

220 days ago

Dave Morrison said...

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Hey Nick—Dave Mo here, a Bleacher Report Community Coordinator.

I've been spending time on our Man U page and read a couple of your old articles. Really on-point analysis...you do good work.

Given that you haven't written in a while, I thought I'd check in and see if you're interested in picking up your coverage again. What do you say?

If not, it would be great if you could give me some feedback on why you decided to stop writing and what we could have done to better serve you. If you wouldn't mind, please shoot me a line at dmorrison@bleacherreport.com with any thoughts.

Thanks so much,

Dave Mo

348 days ago

raam shanker said...

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Hi Nick, cheers for the useful comments on Indian Footie mate! Makes an interesting read and brings in another perspective to the discussion.

415 days ago

Nino Colla said...

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Nick, the MLB awards and predictions are just for Community Leaders. However, there is a site-wide MLB contest starting up as soon as we find out the final AL participant.

http://blog.bleacherreport.com/2008/09/26/mlb-playoff-contest-coming-monday/

Thanks for your interest though!

418 days ago

Jeff Harbert said...

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Hey,
I enjoyed the article on Manchester United. Keep up the good work.
I usually like to stick to writing articles, but I kind of drifted from that to come up with a list of my favorite Manchester United quotes. Feel free to check it out.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/60914-the-top-10-greatest-manchester-united-quotes-ever

All the best,
Jeff

424 days ago

Patrick Allen said...

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Hey thanks for the comments, and the picture (do you just find them on the net? there aren't many Honda pics are there), nice article by the way.

428 days ago

Nino Colla said...

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Sounds good.. We are doing Awards and Playoff Predictions for the Community Leaders.. But by all means, get a competition going for the rest of the Baseball community and I'll do my best to get the word out there..

432 days ago

Bob Warja said...

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I just e-mailed my predictions. I hope I did it right.

Thanks, Bob

432 days ago

Nino Colla said...

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Wow I need to read.. I didn't realize you wanted to do the up through the playoffs as well, I thought it was the remaining playoff spots.. Maybe we can just add up the points at the end of the season for teams that make the playoffs?

435 days ago

Nino Colla said...

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Hey Nick, Great Idea!

Ben Weixlmann and I are putting together MLB Awards with all the Community Leaders involved at the end of the regular season. Perhaps the first person with the most points that isn't a Community Leader can be a wild-card initiation to our little committee? You can add that to the topic if you wish, I'll do my best to promote it.

435 days ago

L.J. Burgess said...

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Nick...come and join us in the F1 Hall of Fame roundtable.

Drop a line on Paul Heffernan's and my BBs with your nominees and which bios you want to write.

439 days ago

L.J. Burgess said...

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Kudos on your environmentally sound racing piece. We should have been preparing for this 40 years ago.

440 days ago

Mary Jo Buchanan said...

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Nick, it was up on the front page for a time this afternoon - I swear!!

440 days ago

Mary Jo Buchanan said...

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Way to go Nick! Doing our racing proud with a front page article!!

441 days ago

Thomas said...

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nice work. pretty good research. i try not to pay attention to that kind of stuff, but hey, what can u do.

455 days ago

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