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I'm Jason Payne. Living in Raleigh, NC, I'm a huge wrestling fan. I am also a fan of the Indianapolis Colts and the Carolina Hurricanes. I've recently created an account here on Bleacher Report after I was sent a copy of one of my friend's article (Mark Jones). I am interested in writing here so I can share my opinions with a wider range of audience.

Oh, by the way, THE PATRIOTS SUCK!!!!!!!!!!

Jason's Recent Articles

The Top 10 Most Hated Wrestlers

Published about 1 year ago
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Top 20 Favorite Wrestlers

Published about 1 year ago
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The Amazing John Cena

Published about 1 year ago
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The Short List What Jason thinks about sport's most pressing questions

Favorite Athletes

John Cena, Peyton Manning, Shawn Michaels, Joseph Addai, Rod Brind'Amour, Eric Staal
Favorite Sports Teams

Indianapolis Colts, Carolina Hurricanes, Chelsea
All Time Sports Moment

When John Cena did a double FU to the tag team champions
Most Memorable Game Attended

Hurricanes 7-2 win over the Oilers last January
Ruth or Mays?

Ruth
Unitas or Montana?

Unitas
Gretzky or Orr?

Orr
Pele or Maradona?

Pele
Federer or Sampras?

Federer
Tiger or Nicklaus?

Tiger!!!!!!
Petty or Earnhardt?

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

ACC

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by Mark
about 1 year ago

Hey Jason, your doing well getting comments. But you'll get even more if you respond to them. Just click "respond to comment" at the top of each comment, Jason, and therefore they'll know you responded and possible say something back.

Mark
by Mark
about 1 year ago

Looks like you got some help from Matt, Jason.

I'll make sure to edit your NFL and wrestling articles tonight!
by Matt
about 1 year ago

First of all, welcome to Bleacher Report. I bet you'll like it a lot.

Second of all, thanks for adding me to your list.

To get started on B/R, I recommend you start with writing NFL articles. The NFL Community is by far the biggest community on the site (as in by thousands of members), which gives you the biggest possible immediate audience. I happen to be ranked 13th in the NFL writer rankings, so I could look at any NFL articles you write to see how they check out. Writing Colts articles or about other AFC South teams could provide you with a big immediate audience, as I think it has a good number of members.

Mark may have told you that I'm also a huge Hurricanes fan. I don't really write about the Hurricanes because the community is so small (less than 50 members, probably the smallest community on the site) and because I'm already pretty solidly based in the NFL community. It would be hard to get my work out there in the Hurricanes community because of the extremely scarcity of members in that community. If you know hockey well, I recommend you find the most populated division community and write about the teams in that division. Keep doing that until you're a top-50 NHL writer, and then work down to the Hurricanes. That may your high ranking will help your pieces on the Hurricanes be more accessible to potential readers because higher-ranking writers' articles get better placement.

However, I can't help you much with wrestling. I've never liked it in the least.

Above all, if you want to get somewhere, work hard and be patient! You'll start slow, just like everyone else, but someday you could be an elite writer! Hope this helps, and good luck!

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