The Fantasy Sports Trade Association will dole out its annual industry awards later this month at its winter business conference. Among the categories to be recognized is Salary Cap Contest. Voting ends Monday, Jan. 5, and the finalists are as follows:
Who: Matt Schauf
What: the voice of FSB
As I go through the industry and ask various people to tell me who they are, I think it’s only fair that I tell you all who I am, beyond the professional stuff that you can read on the About Us page. (OK, maybe we’ll use the professional stuff as a starting point.)
Rather than writing a self-indulgent profile in the normal format and expect anyone to read through, I’ll use the quick-hit format I used to love reading in Baseball Digest and hate getting as a 200-category e-mail forward.
Occupation: Manuscript editor with a legal publishing company
Preoccupation: Senior fantasy football writer/associate editor, SportsBuff.com; Publisher/lead writer, FantasySportsBusiness.com
Education: Ithaca College, bachelor’s degree in journalism with a minor in sport studies
Work background: Copy editor and page designer at The Daily Star in Oneonta, N.Y.; same position at Democrat & Chronicle in Rochester, N.Y.
Proudest journalistic accomplishment: Writing an editorial to honor Dr. Seuss in The Daily Star in full Seuss language
Fantasy background: Played football and baseball since 1998; began writing “Fantasy Island” football column for The Daily Star in 2002; joined ProFantasySports.com in 2005 (which became part of the Sports Buff family in January 2008)
Best fantasy pick: LaDainian Tomlinson as a rookie in my keeper league
Worst: Lee Evans in 2007, with Randy Moss still on the board (I just made myself mad again.)
Favorite sport: Football — It was baseball until I played center and guard on my high school football team.
Sport in which I think I could make the U.S. Olympic team: Badminton
Favorite teams: Philadelphia Eagles, Chicago Cubs, Carolina Tarheels (basketball), in that order — yeah, baseball and football seasons have been tough my whole life
Favorite athletes: Brian Dawkins, Donovan McNabb, Sammy Sosa (before), Frank Thomas (before he started whining), Antawn Jamison (in college)
Favorite experience as a sports fan: Watching the Eagles beat up Tampa Bay, 21-3, in the playoffs New Year’s Eve in 2000 from three rows behind the end zone
Least favorite: The Bartman game (No, I don’t blame him.)
Family status: Married, one adorable daughter who will turn 2 in December and begin dating at 32, kid No. 2 (a girl, I’m sure) on the way in January
Sleep: Nonexistent
Now that we’ve all had a day to get acquainted with the idea of Brett Favre donning a different green jersey, it’s time to figure out what his arrival means to his new team.
I could travel around the Web to gather multiple opinions on the topic, but instead I’ll focus on one. Why am I being so myopic? Because that one opinion comes from me.
As for his old team, well, I covered that subject back when Favre “retired.”
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