Jo-Ryan Salazar
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Jo-Ryan Salazar

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FOR EDITORS: A friendly reminder, you are free to make changes to the body of my articles as you wish to improve readability. You may also change the article titles, but I reserve my right to revert them as I see fit. Also, be sure to use the Inbox if you need to point out clarifications regarding my pieces. If the Inbox is not available, let me know on my Bulletin Board below of any corrections that need to be made. Don't post them in my comments. I will flag your entire conversation as I see fit. Thank you.

All right then, my name is Jo-Ryan Salazar, and here's my bio.

Aside from being a sports fan like the rest of your here on b/r, I write columns on Major League Soccer and the Los Angeles Galaxy and previously wrote on Women's Professional Soccer. I am a proud alumnus of Cal State Long Beach, after already earning a couple AA degrees at Long Beach City College. I am a proud recipient of an MBA and a Master of Information Systems Management degree from the Keller Graduate School of Management at DeVry University.

I follow a number of pro/semi-pro/amateur clubs: Los Angeles Galaxy, Long Beach State (all teams), Los Angeles Angels, USC Trojans football, Belmont Shore RFC, Los Angeles Lakers, Los Angeles Sparks, Chelsea FC, Anaheim Ducks, Montreal Canadiens, Melbourne Vixens netball, Melbourne Victory, Saskatchewan Roughriders, FC Tokyo, Auckland City FC and AFC Wimbledon.

I have been an anime and manga enthusiast since August 1995. I volunteer as an Anime Expo (AX) staff member every 4th of July in downtown L.A. I also work for the Long Beach Bar Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of juvenile at-risk youth.

As a courtesy to yours truly and others on Bleacher Report, may I request that when you comment on his articles, stay on topic and do not talk about anything outside of sports or the topic itself. There are other forums out there for those topics; namely ours for example. And no personal attacks please; on this page that amounts to a no-win situation.

Other than that, enjoy my contributions here on Bleacher Report. And thanks for reading.

Short List

  • Favorite Athletes

    Manny Pacquiao, Lance Armstrong, Landon Donovan, Michael Jordan, Colt Brennan, Kobe Bryant, Archie Thompson, John Terry, John Aloisi, anyone coming out of Long Beach State, Marta, Kristy Yamaguchi, Aya Miyama

  • Favorite Sports Teams

    LA Galaxy, LA Sparks, LA Angels, LA Angels, Saskatchewan Roughriders, Chelsea FC, Milton Keynes Dons, FC Tokyo, Long Beach State, Anaheim Ducks, Melbourne VIxens, Montreal Canadiens, Hawaii Warriors (football), Melbourne Victory FC, Melbourne Storm, Melbourne Rebels, Hollywood United, USA national teams, the Socceroos, Pali Blues

  • Favorite Coaches

    Phil Jackson, Mike Krzyzewski, Pat Summitt, Jack E. Clark, June Jones, Pete Carroll, Bruce Arena, Phil Salvaggio, Vic Akers, Sigi Schmid, Guus Hiddink, Holger Osieck, Terry Brown

  • All Time Sports Moment

    Lance Armstrong winning 7 straight Tour de Frances

  • Most Memorable Game Attended

    Long Beach State defeating Cal Poly in the BWC Tournament final 2007, the WPS Inagural Game between LA and Washington

  • Most Unbreakable Sports Record

    Lance Armstrong winning 7 straight Tour de Frances

  • Ruth or Mays?

    Ruth

  • Unitas or Montana?

    Montana

  • Jordan or Russell?

    Bryant

  • Gretzky or Orr?

    Gretzky

  • Pele or Maradona?

    Pele

  • Federer or Sampras?

    Nadal

  • Tiger or Nicklaus?

    Neither. Arnold Palmer. Or Louis Oosthuizen.

  • Petty or Earnhardt?

    Earnhardt

  • Schumacher or Senna?

    Schumacher

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

    Pac-10, but I really prefer Mountain West, PIoneer, Great West or Ivy if you're talking football. Everything else: Big West and MPSF.

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  • djSeven Seven posted 2 days ago

    djSeven Seven

    masters from devry ? >.< ahahahahahah is that a joke ?

  • Linus Fernandes posted 110 days ago

    Linus Fernandes

    No probs, Salazar. I like your profile statement. Good going!

  • Casey Lipe posted 111 days ago

    Casey Lipe

    I liked your article about MLS expansion teams. However, you did not mention Indianapolis! We have a great fan base and have recently created a facebook page. We could use some exposure! Check us out please!

    http://www.facebook.com/MLStoIndy?sk=wall

  • Ignacio Marquez posted 144 days ago

    Ignacio Marquez

    No problem. Thank you.

  • Ryan Rodgers posted 144 days ago

    Ryan Rodgers

    That's a lot of articles.

  • Roberto Alvarez-Galloso posted 165 days ago

    Roberto Alvarez-Galloso

    Thanks for the like.

  • Anthony Kang posted 190 days ago

    Anthony Kang

    As I've said before, it is completely your prerogative. I assume you write pieces to have it read—I'm just giving you advice if you'd rather have readers read the entire piece or click out a quarter of the way in upon seeing the length.

  • Sean Babcock posted 196 days ago

    Sean Babcock

    Do your Power Rankings ever feature on the front page? Even if the B/R MLS audience is small, it seems like featuring it for a few hours on Mondays would be a good way for the website to promote some level of interest and give the average viewer an opportunity to get a quick update on the events of the league and the results of the week. I thought maybe I could achieve something like that with my MLS Week 20 Roundup, which took friggin' forever, but I guess not. B/R continues to surprise me with their entire lack of interest in MLS. Kudos for hanging in there with it.

  • Sean Babcock posted 230 days ago

    Sean Babcock

    Thanks for linking to my piece. Any tips? It's a bit disconcerting to see you at 414k reads, while I've watched mine slowly creep up to 150...

  • King J posted 239 days ago

    King J

    Private Message me your Official Prediction Statement
    http://bleacherreport.com/articles/714431-wladimir-klitschko-vs-david-haye-send-in-your-official-predictions

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