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Writer, Blogger, Communicator |
Welcome to my portfolio website. In here you will find work I have done for The Times-Delphic, Think magazine, Man Up magazine, the Iowa Sports Connection and for Eyes on Iowa among other things. I do like to blog, you know.
The problem with linking emotions to how we want to judge sports figures is that we often get caught up playing favorites between athletes. A lot has been said and written about Dwight Howard and Derrick Rose this past year. However, the overall perception of how we view these two is inconsistently different. Howard has [...]
Enough is enough: Mark Phelps needs to go. That’s what every diehard Drake men’s basketball fan was thinking around 9:05 p.m. last Saturday. Right after Drake had capped off its most embarrassing loss of the season. An accomplishment in itself considering the Bulldogs already owned a pair of 30-pt road losses to the hands of [...]
Junior Gary Ricks Jr., a Los Angeles native who spent his last two years playing basketball at Indian Hills Community College, sat down with The Times-Delphic to discuss his high expectations for this year, his love for baseball and to reveal his guarantee for this season. The Times-Delphic: Tell me a little bit about where you [...]
Entering his fifth year as the head coach of the men’s basketball program, it’s now or never for Mark Phelps. With five new freshmen and three experienced transfers, Phelps arguably has the best team he’s ever had at Drake and this might be the year the Bulldogs finally breakthrough in the Missouri Valley Conference. “I [...]
The Drake men’s soccer team earned a 2-2 double-overtime tie against Evansville (9-6-1, 3-1-1 MVC) on Saturday night at the Cownie Soccer Complex. With this result, the Bulldogs (4-10-4, 1-2-2 MVC) clinched a berth in the upcoming Missouri Valley Conference tournament. The Bulldogs also celebrated Senior Night, sending off four Bulldogs on a positive note. [...]