Sports, sex, and gambling...not necessarily in that order, but also not necessarily not in that order
Music
Boston, Beatles, Poison, Van Halen, Whitesnake (including the older stuff you can't get on CD), Guns N Roses, Kiss, Pink Floyd, Eagles, Billy Joel, Kenny Rogers, Bob Seger, Styx, REO Speedwagon, Rolling Stones, The Who, Meat Loaf, Ozzy Osbourne, Spinal Tap, Aerosmith, Tom Petty, Madonna, Led Zeppelin, Def Leppard, Prince, Bryan Adams, Weird Al Yankovic, Barry Manilow, Judas Priest, Stryper
Movies
Back to the Future trilogy, Forrest Gump, Groundhog Day, The Aristocrats, South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut, The Itchy & Scratchy Movie, Cars, Lord of the Beans, Caddyshack, Airplane, Top Secret!, Shawshank Redemption, Brian's Song, This is Spinal Tap, Little Shop of Horrors, Arsenic and Old Lace...lately, about the only movies I ever get to see are animated features with my kids, so I have to add Cars, Finding Nemo, Monsters Inc, The Incredibles, Toy Story and Shrek to the list
Television
Seinfeld, The Simpsons, Two and a Half Men, Scrubs, and just about anything football-related or gambling-related (Vegas shows, poker shows, etc.)
Books
Outside the sports or gambling genres...I love to lose myself in mysteries, so anything by Agatha Christie (especially "Death on the Nile" and "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd"), Ellery Queen ("A Fine and Private Place"), Ed McBain (the Matthew Hope series as opposed to the 87th Precinct series) and Gregory McDonald (the Fletch series)
Heroes
All those who have served our country in the military, plus Michael Jordan and Walter Payton (whom my daughters Jordyn, 5, and Peyton, 3, are named after)
Northern Illinois University
Dekalb,Illinois
Graduated: 1988
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Journalism
Clubs: Northern Star both junior and senior year, football beat writer in fall of 1986, sports editor in spring 1987, back to football beat writer in fall of 1987, sports columnist in spring 1988
1986 to 1988
College Of Dupage
Glen Ellyn, IL
Graduated: 1986
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Associate's Degree
Major: Journalism
Minor: Skirt Chasing
Clubs: Courier newspaper staff two years, sports editor my sophomore year
1984 to 1986
Glenbard North High School
Carol Stream,Illinois
Graduated: 1984
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
Clubs: Football all four years, varsity letterman junior and senior year
Cover Las Vegas beat, specifically sports betting with main emphasis on football, but cover all sports from a betting perspective, including horse racing
About me: I'm 42, but I'm trying to stay "hip" (does anyone say "hip" anymore?) by having a MySpace page as well as Facebook and Twitter.com/ViewFromVegas. ViewFromVegas.com is my website where you can get more of my Vegas point of view on the world of sports.
Who I'd like to meet: The other me in parallel universes along the space-time continuum...the one that represents what my life would have been like if I had made other professional/personal decisions along the way, such as when I was working for a regular daily newspapers and about to give up on horse racing because I was losing my ass (and making very little money as a copy editor) and went to the races anyway on July 20, 1990, and hit a $1,700 quinella on a $3 bet. Or where I'd be now if I had stayed in Phoenix in 1998 instead of moving to Las Vegas to be with my girlfriend Wendy. I am very happy with my family and my career, but I am curious what the other me would be doing now.
So, yeah. How bout' them Bears? I have this theory that if you replaced Rex Grossman with either Sigfried or Roy (which ever one had their head used as a snack)the Bears still would of played better.
