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Hi I’m Darren. You may know my work from when I was the Sports Editor for the Viewmont High Newspaper from 1997-1988, where in addition to giving me an excuse to miss a whole lot of class time, my coverage of the Vikings just missing their first trip to the state football playoffs in 20 years, and the girls runner-up showing in the state cross country meet was highly recognized by my peers.

Since that time, I've continued to build my impressive qualifications as one of the nation’s premier sports experts by watching a lot of sports, listening to a lot of sports radio in my car, and talking a lot about sports with my friends and my brother.

I went to the University of Utah, where I got a degree in Political Science, and briefly to grad school at the University of Maryland College of Journalism, where I didn’t get anything.

My real job is creating ad campaigns for high tech clients at a big ad agency. If you happened to see the full page spread on the new line of Atomic Force Microscopes in last month’s Nanotechnology Monthly – that was me.

In addition to my article on Bleacherreport.com, I have authored and co-authored numerous briefs on advertising strategies including the critically acclaimed "Tough Customers: Reaching Today’s Software Engineers with Compelling Marketing Messages" and the award winning "Your Brand Strategy and You: 10 Ways to Get the most from Your Segmented Audience Matrix." (Copies are available by request through my agent).

I am currently working on optioning the film rights to my book "Man Up" a semi-biographical account of legendary, one-armed Hungarian water polo player Franz Kocsis, and am writing a memoir on my experiences raising two young boys entitled "Chocolate Milk in My Shoes and Finger Paint on the Dog."

Darren's Recent Articles

Are You There, God? It's Me, Jazz Fan

Published 9 months ago
138 reads 1 comments

Tennis' Era of Greatness Gives Us Two Jordans, Two Tigers

Published 9 months ago
445 reads 41 comments

BCS Listened, America: New Formula to Be Used Beginning Next Year (Humor)

Published 10 months ago
300 reads 2 comments

BCS Good Enough for Some but Not Good Enough for Football

Published 10 months ago
305 reads 24 comments

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Favorite Athletes

Karl Malone, Ozzie Smith, Rafael Nadal, Bjorn Borg, Jackie Stewart, John Daly, Bill Walton, Steve Smith, and of course the one and only Surav Ganguly
Favorite Sports Teams

Jazz, Utes, San Diego Conquistadors (defunct)
Favorite Coaches

Sloan, Majerus, any player/manager, that guy from the Chilean National Team in the '70s who ran into the stands and punched a fan
All Time Sports Moment

Manny Mota breaking the all time record for career pinch hits (I was there).
Most Memorable Game Attended

1st place - Mike Mussina taking a perfect game into the 9th inning at Camden Yards, 2nd place - see above
Most Unbreakable Sports Record

Darius Miles' streak of consecutive games played when he just didn't give a s--t.
Ruth or Mays?

Mays
Unitas or Montana?

Montana (I've never been to the Unitas, but I hear it's beautiful there)
Jordan or Russell?

the athletic apperal company?
Gretzky or Orr?

My money's on Gretzky.
Pele or Maradona?

seriously?
Federer or Sampras?

Federer. Sampras couldn't even find the baseline on a clay court.
Tiger or Nicklaus?

Nicklaus. Still have some work to do Eldrick
Petty or Earnhardt?

Huge Tom Petty fan (saw that one coming, didn't you)
Schumacher or Senna?

You got me on that one.
Pac 10, Big 12, Big 10, SEC, ACC, or Big East?

Other/ouch - Go Utes

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by Rob
9 months ago

Hey, good that we could see eye to eye on the Sampras/Becker thing. I'm glad I didn't discourage you, because you do have skills. Keep it up.
by Long John
9 months ago

HI DJ - nice to see you write tennis, looking forward to reading more from you
by Darren
9 months ago

Read my upcoming article :"4th MRI Reveals No Damage, Sloan Gives Boozer 'Something to Cry About'."
by Darren
10 months ago

Stay tuned for next week's article: "Voters Penalize OU for Band's Less Than Impressive Performance of "Pinball Wizard"
by Darren
10 months ago

Has anybody else noticed how much Mike Krzye...Coach K and Mike Shanahan look alike?
by Gray Ghost
10 months ago

I hope you enjoy B/R as much as I do. If there is anything I can do to help - please don't hesitate to post me. Great job on your first article!

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Are You There, God? It's Me, Jazz Fan

Tennis' Era of Greatness Gives Us Two Jordans, Two Tigers

BCS Listened, America: New Formula to Be Used Beginning Next Year (Humor)

BCS Good Enough for Some but Not Good Enough for Football

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