"You see, you spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time." --Jim Bouton

As a former collegiate baseball player, I still can't get enough of the game. While my perspective has shifted from athlete to spectator, my love of baseball and other sports is just as intense. No longer will I wake up before the sun and begin a workout. No longer will I happily board a cramped bus with 25 other guys to make a 6 hour round trip. However, I can't imagine my life without sports.

This has led me to pursue a career as a sports journalist. I left a cozy yet unsatisfying job at a law firm in Baltimore to get my master's degree in Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina, a school with top notch athletic programs to go with its top notch journalism school. So far, my pursuit has been great. I have worked with some great writers and teachers. I have rubbed elbows with some of the best athletes and coaches in the country.

I have no idea where my degree will take me, but, like UNC's legendary women's soccer coach Anson Dorrance would say, I will strive to make my life a never-ending ascension.