About

I have written for publication since my senior year in high school, when I covered high school baseball for the York County Coast Star in Kennebunk, Maine. After graduation I served as a mechanized infantryman with the Third Armored Division, stationed first in the beautiful German countryside outside Frankfurt on the same post where Elvis served, later deployed to the not-so lovely countries of Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Kuwait as part of Operations Desert Shield, Storm and Saber. You can read a brief write up I posted on the Veterans of the Third Armored Division website about my R&R experiences here: http://www.3ad.org/?page_id=376 and a poem I published about taking Iraqi prisoners here: http://www.umsl.edu/~natural/number05/Seekins.html

After deployment I earned a BA in philosophy on the GI Bill and then attended Syracuse University on a University Fellowship, where I earned a Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing. I published quite a bit of literary criticism and poetry in literary journals in the 1990's, all of which combined has almost surely been read by less people than read almost anything I have written about Manny Pacquiao for Bleacher Report.

I have written one fairly widely read essay about the Creative Writing/MFA experience that can be read in its most recent form here: http://www.tryst3.com/issue19/seekins.html.

Some of my political and philosophical writing can be found at my blog: http://briggsseekins.wordpress.com/

Short List

  • Favorite Athletes

    Ali, Gable, Hagler and for teams sports Rice, Yaz, John Hannah, Pedro Martiez and Tom Brady

  • Favorite Sports Teams

    Red Sox, Patriots, Cornell Wrestling

  • Favorite Coaches

    Rob Koll, Danny Gable

  • All Time Sports Moment

    Adam Vinitari nailing the field goal at the end of the 2002 Super Bowl

  • Most Memorable Game Attended

    Covering the Cotto-Margarito II card in Madison Square Garden for Bleacher Report.

  • Most Unbreakable Sports Record

    Nobody is ever going to win 500+ games in baseball. I don't know how anybody can pick anything else.

  • Ruth or Mays?

    Ruth, because he was also dominant pitcher.

  • Unitas or Montana?

    Montana (but really Brady).

  • Jordan or Russell?

    Russell, because I am a Celtic fan.

  • Gretzky or Orr?

    Orr, but I am a NE fan.

  • Pele or Maradona?

    I don't care about soccer and don't even know who Maradona is.

  • Federer or Sampras?

    Tennis is a fine sport for athletc rich kids who belong to country clubs, but the men's game was never of interest to me.

  • Tiger or Nicklaus?

    Golf is not a sport.

  • Petty or Earnhardt?

    Taking left turns around a track is not a sport.

  • Schumacher or Senna?

    Is that horse racing.

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

    Syracuse grad and Big East for BB. But they are a football joke. SEC for FB.

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  • King J posted 41 days ago

    King J

    Briggs,

    bro please PM me your official prediction on Mayweather/Cotto ASAP thanks!
    http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1131518-floyd-mayweather-vs-miguel-cotto-send-in-your-official-contest-predictions

  • Mike Todd posted 83 days ago

    Mike Todd

    Hey Briggs - I'm not hassling you about it but just curious if you ever got to see our Frazier film...I'd love to know what you think...

  • Chase Downey posted 112 days ago

    Chase Downey

    Hey I work for a website called tapology.com and if there was anyway you could email the winner method and round of the fights last night at the event in Maine you wrote an article about to chasedowney23@live.com, it would be unbelievably appreciated, thanks!!

  • Mike Todd posted 118 days ago

    Mike Todd

    Briggs - Thanks a lot for the note. Very much look forward to knowing what you think of the film....Mike

  • Mike Todd posted 118 days ago

    Mike Todd

    Briggs - I hope you don't mind me contacting you. I'm the producer/ director of a recent documentary on the late, great Joe Frazier. We filmed with him over the last years of his life and chronicled the sad demise of his Philadelphia gym. We've had very little mainstream coverage for the film (except when Joe died), however, we finally managed to get the film out to a wider audience this month on Hulu. I see that you're a top boxing writer here on Bleacher Report and would love if you could take a look at our film and perhaps, if it was worthwhile, give it a brief mention. We're desperate to try and ensure that our film reaches boxing fans and helps preserve Joe's true legacy...here's the Hulu link to watch it for free... http://www.hulu.com/watch/322857/joe-frazier-when-the-smoke-clears?c=News-and-Information/Documentary-and-Biography

  • King J posted 166 days ago

    King J

    Briggs!
    Hey bro time to vote and drop knowledge once again for our B/R Best of Boxing Awards. Get your votes and expert commentary into me ASAP thanks!
    http://bleacherreport.com/articles/983349-brs-2011-best-of-boxing-awards-send-in-your-votes

  • King J posted 214 days ago

    King J

    Hey Bro,
    Private Message Me Your Official Prediction Statement ASAP so we can get the Official B/R Prediction Piece out with our Tuesday massive newsletter. Thanks!
    http://bleacherreport.com/articles/911519-manny-pacquiao-vs-juan-manuel-marquez-send-in-your-official-predictions

  • Henry Martin posted 220 days ago

    Henry Martin

    I'm glad the first fight I saw was Zewski... well I think it was the guy who KO'd his man in 1 round... was the most epic thing I've seen. I like how they catered it to the NY crowd too.... I saw a lot of local talent there, Monhagen being the most popular from what I saw.

    What I meant from the main event comment was... after Donaire's last fight with Montiel, I went there thinking that it'd end the same way. You're right though, I saw him landing some good counters the first couple of rounds, then he closed up more afterwards.

    Donaire/Arce would be great... I don't know how long it'll last though. I'm certain Arce will keep coming forward and Donaire will try and use his left hook

  • Henry Martin posted 221 days ago

    Henry Martin

    Yo man, that reminds me... you were at the Donaire fight blogging right? How did you like it? I was in the 300 section, first match. I thought it was great despite the main event.... lacking what I thought it'd be.
    I got to meet Kelly Pavlik there and Mikey Garcia... hoping to go back up for Cotto/Marg

  • King J posted 275 days ago

    King J

    WE DOING IT AGAIN! Get your official predictions Private Messaged to me ASAP!
    http://bleacherreport.com/articles/831633-floyd-mayweather-vs-victor-ortiz-send-in-your-official-predictions

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