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My favorite sports teams all have a Toronto flavour, with the Leafs, Raptors, Blue Jays and Toronto FC taking the place in my sports heart. In short, I'm not a journalism major, I'm not a genius, but I offer valid opinions and try to convey them in a professional manner.

I usually focus my sports writing on the Toronto based sports teams (Leafs, Raptors, Blue Jays, Argos, TFC etc), but I will write the odd national NHL article over the course of a week or two. Hopefully you all enjoy my writing.

I've just recently graduated from Laurentian University with a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Physics and hopeful I can at least find a job somewhere.

Sports is my passion and I enjoy writing and following sports in my spare time. I take time out at least twice a week to try and write a piece on something, so have a read through my articles and tell me what you think.

Just recently, as of August 4th, 2010, I am now a featured NHL Columnist here at B/R. I seem to be rising in the ranks pretty quickly here at B/R and I have to thank the countless readers for clicking and reading my articles. Thanks so much for taking the time out to read my work.

Accomplishments
-June 2010--Named to SportsHaze writing Staff
-July 2010--Named SportsHaze NHL Staff Editor
-August 2010--over 100K Article Views
-October 2010--first Platinum Medal awarded for Mikhail Grabovski: Worst Second Line Center in NHL article
-October 2010--I have five articles currently that have been picked up by major sports outlets such as NHL.com, CBSSports.com and NBA.com.
-December 2010-- Hit 200K article views, thanks readers!
-March 2011-- hit 300K article views, thanks again!

Short List

  • Favorite Athletes

    Doug Gilmour, Tiger Woods, Rickie Fowler, Roy Halladay, Mats Sundin, Dion Phaneuf, Aaron Hill, Alex Ovechkin, DeMar DeRozan and Vince Carter

  • Favorite Sports Teams

    Toronto Raptors, Toronto Maple Leafs, Toronto Blue Jays

  • Favorite Coaches

    Phil Jackson, Avery Johnson, Joe Maddon, Bill Belichek, Paul Maurice, John Wooden and bobby Knight

  • All Time Sports Moment

    Joe Carter, 1993 World Series...that's all I care about.

  • Most Memorable Game Attended

    The last ever game at Maple Leaf Gardens

  • Most Unbreakable Sports Record

    Tough one, but I'll go with CY Young with 511 Wins. I doubt anyone will hit 300 for a LONG time

  • Ruth or Mays?

    Mays

  • Unitas or Montana?

    Montana

  • Jordan or Russell?

    Jordan

  • Gretzky or Orr?

    Gretzky

  • Pele or Maradona?

    Pele

  • Federer or Sampras?

    Sampras

  • Tiger or Nicklaus?

    Tiger..I take that back...The Golden Bear

  • Petty or Earnhardt?

    Earnhardt no question

  • Schumacher or Senna?

    Schumacher

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

    ACC

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  • Travis Graham posted 35 days ago

    Travis Graham

    Hello my name is Travis and i'd love to discuss a few things with you if you could email me at grahamt14@gmail.com

  • Matt Melbye posted 135 days ago

    Matt Melbye

    If you are interested in a fantasy hockey league I need a few more owners in an established yahoo league. It's the 7th year for my H2H points based league. Live draft is tomorrow night at 7:30. All of the owners are active all season. League ID is 34284 password is 1. I look forward to seeing you.

  • Brandon Hodsdon posted 338 days ago

    Brandon Hodsdon

    Hey Brad, Nobody will answer my question. Can you? are the toronto Blue jays make a trade for slowey?

  • Toadvine McCarthy posted 454 days ago

    Toadvine McCarthy

    Mikhail Grabovski---The Worst Second Line Center in the NHL?

    I think the answer is no, not right now anyway. I took a look at the stats and there are only a handful of 2nd line centers with more points and he is plus 3.

    Go Bananagrabber

  • Billy McCreight posted 455 days ago

    Billy  McCreight

    Hey Brad, any chance you've heard of the following rumor?

    http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2010/11/justin-upton-rumors-thursday.html#disqus_thread

    I would guess you have, but since you seem to have more connections than I would, and if you haven't heard of it, maybe you can find out who's potentially going the other way?

    Keep up the great writing.

  • Alex Sullivan posted 554 days ago

    Alex Sullivan

    Breaking news, trade involving NO, IND, HOU and NJ

    http://bleacherreport.com/articles/433683-nba-trade-rumors-four-team-deal-close-to-completion?just_published=1

  • Daniel Thai posted 598 days ago

    Daniel Thai

    That's actually what I meant, and I thought I wrote it that way in the comments, but I just looked in the article history and it looks like it might've gotten cut off. Either way, it worked out. Hope to see more from you.

  • Tyler Spence posted 633 days ago

    Tyler Spence

    hey brad I like ur articles. I loved ur nhl mock draft one last June. if u could read this id appreciate it man
    http://bleacherreport.com/articles/396016-mona-vie-the-drink-of-the-boston-red-sox-la-angels-houston-rockets?just_published=1

  • Richard O'Neal posted 961 days ago

    Richard O'Neal

    Just found out that Bosh might be headed to Houston! Check out my story and I would really appreciate comments.

    ro

    http://bleacherreport.com/articles/209388-bosh-could-be-headed-to-houston?just_published=1

  • John Lorge posted 966 days ago

    John  Lorge

    The Draft is here! Checkout my final edition mock:

    http://bleacherreport.com/articles/206318-2009-nba-mock-draft-final-edition

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