Hello, my name is Brad, and I am one of the biggest sports fans (especially regarding college basketball and college football) in the country. I work as an Assistant District Attorney in Wilmington, North Carolina, but my life’s passion has always been watching, consuming, attending, and analyzing sporting events throughout the country and sometimes the world. I’d like to give you a brief rundown of my sporting background and interests, so that you can understand the perspective from which I’m writing this blog.

First off, as far as personal athleticism goes, let me just say I played varsity basketball and tennis in high school, but my real passion has been religiously following sports since the age of 6. I grew up in Lexington, KY, so naturally the Kentucky Wilcats were the first team I knew and loved. I then decided to pick up two random professional sports teams to follow throughout my childhood and beyond, the Montreal Expos and the New England Patriots. My reasons for liking each would be what one expect from a 7 year old. The tee ball team I played on for 2 summers was nicknamed the Expos, and a group called the Patriots were my favorite professional wrestling tag team at the time. I still consider myself a Pats fan, but not nearly as much because I generally hate teams that establish dynasties, as the Pats did in the early 2000’s. The city of Boston has seemingly lost its underdog charm and so have the Pats. As far as the Expos go, they became the Nationals, and there was no way I was going to like a team in Washington D.C. with one of the worst nicknames in sport. As a result of these developments, I have become quite turned off by pro team sports in recent years. I’m pretty much just “a playoff watcher” for the NBA, MLB, NHL, and NFL. My obsession for college sports however has never dwindled. I am a proud alumnus of Wake Forest University, so the Deacons have now become my ultimate sporting interest. However, I am also a huge fan of the athletic programs affiliated with the University of Kentucky (where I was born and raised), the University of South Carolina (where my dad attended and where I lived for high school and college), and the University of North Carolina at Wilmington (my current hometown team).

A couple of other personal sporting tidbits of my life include the fact that I have been blessed to have experienced a few incredible sports moments involving my favorite teams. They include most notably: Kentucky’s 1996 national championship, the New England Patriot’s first super bowl win in 2002, and Wake Forest’s 2006 ACC Football Championship. Furthermore, when I started this blog in the early 2010s, I had four major sporting goals that I wanted to see happen in my lifetime. They were as follows in order of personal significance: (1) seeing a 16 seed beat a 1 seed in the first round of the NCAA tournament, (2) having Wake Forest win a national basketball or football championship, (3) seeing a Triple Crown winner in horse racing, and (4) having a British male tennis player win Wimbledon (another strange obsession of mine). In fact, I went as far as to freeze a small piece of candy to represent each of these events and when one of the events happened I was to consume the candy in celebration. If you follow sports somewhat closely, you should realize that three of those things have happened since the goals were created and thus I have had to eat three horribly old and hardened pieces of candy. First, a British man, Andy Murray (who is also my all-time favorite tennis player), won Wimbledon in 2013. Then, two years after that in 2015, American Pharoah won the Triple Crown. Then, three years later in 2018, a 16 seed finally beat a 1 when UMBC upset Virginia in the first round of that year’s NCAA tournament. The only goal outstanding then is the one that carries with it the longest of odds: to see Wake Forest win a men’s basketball or football national championship. Will it happen in my lifetime? Probably not, but I can still dream. There is a piece of candy that continues to sit in a freezer in Wilmington, North Carolina until it happens.

The focus of this blog is college football and basketball but I also create lists and analyses about other sports for you to consider. In fact, I have a very distinct ranking of my favorites sports to watch and follow: (1) College Football, (2) College Basketball (a very close 2nd), (3) Professional Tennis, (4) Professional Golf, (4) NFL, (6) Boxing, (7) Horse Racing, (8) NBA, (9) NHL, (10) MLB, (11) College Baseball, (12) International Soccer (esp. world cup and Euro), (13) Other College Sports (ex: hockey, tennis, golf, etc), and (14) Other Pro Sports (ex: MLS, MLL, PBA, MMA, etc.) Also, I did not include the Olympics in here because they aren’t a “sport” per se but I get really excited about those as well.

I hope my commentary is somewhat unique in that it will contain analysis you might not get anywhere else. I make many analogies to historical sporting events, as well as discuss hypotheticals that you might not have thought about. I try to balance my analytical tendencies with my sentimental ones to provide logical analysis fraught with emotion. Overall, I hope you find my entries and articles interesting, and please post any questions and comments that you may have, as I almost always respond.