About

I was born in Iowa where I was lucky enough to play 6 on 6 girls basketball. Attended the University of Iowa; hence, my love for the Iowa Hawkeyes in all sports—especially football.

Followed tennis since the days of Borg and McEnroe. Climbed on the Federer band wagon in 2001 but love all tennis players, male or female who promote the game and inspire others.

Short List

  • Favorite Athletes

    Roger Federer, Tiger Woods, Walter Payton, Bjorn Borg, Mats Wilander, Carl Lewis, Edwin Moses

  • Favorite Sports Teams

    University of Iowa Hawkeyes (men's football & basketball)

  • Favorite Coaches

    Kirk Ferentz, Dr. Tom Davis

  • All-Time Sports Moment

    1981 Iowa defeated Nebraska 10--7-it was fun seeing Nebraska fans cry for a change!

  • Most Unbreakable Sports Record

    Federer 237 weeks ranked as #1

  • Ruth or Mays?

    Mays-He suffered for his sport.

  • Unitas or Montana?

    Montana

  • Federer or Sampras?

    Federer without question...

  • Tiger or Nicklaus?

    Time will tell...

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

    Big 10!

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  • Krrish posted 7 days ago

    Krrish

    No problem. Keep up the good work.

  • JASON NARAIN posted 101 days ago

    JASON  NARAIN

    JA Allen, you have one more fan (me!)!

  • Josh Matt posted 186 days ago

    Josh Matt

    care for a fan add?

  • hermione granger posted 189 days ago

    hermione granger

    May I ask you how to write an article?How do we do it?

  • Bill Cord posted 238 days ago

    Bill Cord

    Your latest article about US players included the best explanation (racket-string technology) about the evolution of tennis from the Borg-Connors era to the Federer-Nadal era.

  • Gianluca Trigoni posted 249 days ago

    Gianluca Trigoni

    Hi Allen,
    We are a Publishing company which already has One title World Business Magazine being published for over one year. We are now Launching a Monthly Sports Magazine and wanted to inquire whether you would be interested in allowing us to use your content for our Print Publication. Kindly drop us an email at trigoni@worldbizjournals.com so that we can talk further.

    Regards,

  • Advait Halve posted 264 days ago

    Advait Halve

    Keep the articles coming :), yours and a couple other writers' are the only articles I read right now, mainly because there are too many Featured Columnists writing tennis articles just for reads to move up the "ranking ladder" or whatever that is.

  • Ash Marshall posted 292 days ago

    Ash Marshall

    Hey JA, long time no speak. I hope you're doing well. I'm actually posting on your wall to ask for a favor. As someone who is active here in the B/R community, I wanted to share this story with you in the hopes that you could maybe share it with your readers and followers.

    Kelcey Harrison is running 3,500 miles from New York to San Francisco in memory of her friend Jill Costello, the inspirational UC Berkeley rower who led her team to a Pac-10 gold and NCAA silver medal while undergoing treatment for lung cancer.

    I hope you can help publicize this remarkable charity run.

    Thanks again, and apologies for the mass post.

    http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1277503-kelcey-harrisons-great-lung-run-3500-miles-in-memory-of-friend-jill-costello

  • Meredith Day posted 330 days ago

    Meredith Day

    Hey JA...sorry about that; I only said that because you mentioned at the end that three of you contributed to the article. :)

  • Advait Halve posted 422 days ago

    Advait Halve

    Didn't make the cut Allen, have to wait another 60 days before I try again for some reason. Pity.

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