Andrew Rafner's Sportswriter Profile

Andrew Rafner joined March 2008

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About Andrew »

I write for www.thelakersnation.com. I figured I would branch out. I like irreverence and how sports provides that. I like making light out of the things most fans find serious. So ya. Read my writing!!

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Favorite Athletes

Kobe Bryant, Pau, Sasha Vujacic, Magic Johnson, Gilbert Arenas, Nomar Garciaparra, Dell Curry, Chris Mullin's Crew Cut, Patrick O'Sullivan, Andrew Bynum, James Worthy, Ozzie Smith (only when doing backflips)
Favorite Sports Teams

Lakers, Los Doyers
All Time Sports Moment

0.4 or the Fish that Saved L.A.
Most Memorable Game Attended

Game 6 of the 2000 NBA Finals
Most Unbreakable Sports Record

Wilt's 100 Point Game. Cannot be replicated.
Ruth or Mays?

Babe Ruth because he was corpulent.
Unitas or Montana?

I hate football.
Pele or Maradona?

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

PAC 10!!!

Latest Articles »

To Lakers, Shannon Brown Is No Surprise

04/22/2009

1,953 reads 3 comments 0 likes

Shaquille O'Neal: The Ex-Girlfriend

02/27/2009

620 reads 1 comments 1 likes

Lamar Odom's New Sweatshirt

02/20/2009

362 reads 1 comments 0 likes

Who Dost Thou Chris Paul Rolleth Off? Not Tyson Chandler

02/17/2009

100 reads 1 comments 0 likes

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Max Tcheyan said...

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Hey Andrew—Max Tcheyan here, a Bleacher Report Community Coordinator.

I've been spending time on our Lakers page and read a couple of your old articles. Really on-point analysis...you do good work.

Given that you haven't written in a while, I thought I'd check in and see if you're interested in picking up your coverage again. What do you say?

If not, it would be great if you could give me some feedback on why you decided to stop writing and what we could have done to better serve you. If you wouldn't mind, please shoot me a line at mtcheyan@bleacherreport.com with any thoughts.

Thanks so much,
Max

362 days ago

Andrew Rafner said...

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for some reason, bleacher report is automatically leeching the RSS feed from our blog at thelakersnation.com

this was just brought to my attention. gonna try and figure out why

428 days ago

Jay Middleton said...

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Andrew, I like your original stuff, but articles you submit have to have some original content; you can't just repost articles that appear elsewhere without adding your own editorial commentary.

430 days ago

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To Lakers, Shannon Brown Is No Surprise

Shaquille O'Neal: The Ex-Girlfriend

Lamar Odom's New Sweatshirt

Who Dost Thou Chris Paul Rolleth Off? Not Tyson Chandler

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