About

Hello and welcome to OuttaTownClowns, your one stop shop for all things sports. Whether it be football, basketball, baseball or any sport you care about, we’ve got it covered. Why OuttaTownClowns as a name you ask? Don’t worry, there will be no red puffy noses and sometimes creepy antics on this site, only in depth analysis of all things sports. Our backgrounds couldn’t be more different, but our love of sports, joint displacement from home, and sometimes laughable antics makes us the OuttaTownClowns.

 

Patrick McWeeny

I am a junior at Marquette University as well, majoring in International Relations/Political Science. I grew up in Indianapolis, Indianapolis as a huge baseball fan but really took to every sport over the years. I enjoy baseball, football (college and pro), soccer, basketball (college and pro), and I feel like if hockey was at all popular in Indianapolis I would have taken to that too. My teams are the Indianapolis Colts, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, the Cleveland Indians, Butler and Marquette for College Basketball, and Villarreal CF for soccer (Spanish League). To those of you who are going to hate because I am a Notre Dame fan, I would like to point out that I became a fan right at the beginning of the Bob Davie Era, so any chants of “Fair Weather Fan” are not at all accurate. I am the author of the non-NBA material on the site, if only because I find a lot of time on my hands and since I am already watching sports religiously, I figured why not write about it. I am also a man of few words, so in accordance with that trait, I will end my intro here and hope you enjoy the site.

Patrick writes the NFL, Soccer, MLB, and College Football columns.

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Contributors:

Bryce Kessler: I am currently a junior at Arizona State University majoring in psychology.  I have lived in Arizona all my life and have always been a major sports fan.  Growing up, I was involved in a wide variety of sports until the age of 11 when I turned my focus to tennis.  Tennis has remained my primary focus ever since.  Throughout high school I played tournaments for the United States Tennis Association as well as played for my high school, Brophy College Preparatory.  I was on the varsity team all four years and we made it to the semifinals of state every year and the finals one of those years.  Not only have I enjoyed playing tennis over the years but it has been one of my favorite sports to follow as well.  My favorite players include Andy Roddick, Roger Federer,   James Blake, Fernando Gonzales and Marcos Baghdatis.  I have always been very opinionated, especially in regards to tennis and am grateful for the opportunity to share those opinions with everyone.

James Sargent: I am currently a junior at Pima Community College in Tucson, Arizona, majoring in Journalism.  Next year, I plan to transfer to the University of Arizona and join the School of Journalism.  I am originally from Phoenix, Arizona, but Tucson is now what I call home.  At PCC, I work on the school newspaper, The Aztec Press, beat writing for baseball, women’s soccer and occasionally writing opinion articles.  Along with writing, my other hobbies include photography, cooking, and participating and watching all sports.  My dream job would be to follow an MLB or NBA team and write articles for them.  ESPN has also been a dream of mine, and either one would be a great experience.  Thanks OuttaTownClowns for the opportunity to share my love and passion on what interests me most, writing about sports.

James is the author of the “Sargent’s Orders” column on OTC.

Zach Silvernail: Zach’s a junior at Paradise Valley Community College in Paradise Valley, Arizona. He’ll primarily focus on contributing to our NCAA Basketball and NBA content on the blog. Along with his well-written work, Zach has a great knowledge and high level understanding of the game at both the collegiate and pro levels of play. In high school, Zach was a 4-year varsity player (3 year starter). During his sophomore year, FullCourtPress.com ranked him the 10th best point guard in Arizona. As a senior he was all region honorable mention. He’s a former teammate to a variety of college stars in TJ Campbell (Portland), Royce Woolridge (Kansas), Ty Abbott (Arizona State), Todd Golden (St. Mary’s), and Jon Simon (Colgate) and has played against players such as Jerryd Bayless (Portland Trailblazers), Carrick Felix (Arizona State), Kevin Coble (Northwestern), Matt Carlino (UCLA). One day he hopes to write and word for either the NBA, ESPN, or for an NBA organization. His writing will evoke passion with every article and hopes to be read and followed by many! Follow Zach on Twitter: @love4thegame3

Zach will write our College Basketball content as well as contributing to some NBA coverage.

Matt Kroeger: ESPN has bred an army of sports geeks, and I am one them. I am an avid sports man with my allegiances tying almost exclusively to Indiana-based teams and the underdogs, with the exception being the St. Louis Cardinals with whom I have ties via my dad who is from there. I played basketball for four years in high school as a shooting guard in a point guard’s body who gathered more offensive rebounds than field goal attempts. Needless to say, I never played, but I was a superb high-fiver. I go to Xavier University in Cincinnati where I am a senior graphic design major. I am using that wonderful Fine Arts degree to write about fantasy football on this blog. Whereas basketball is my passion, fantasy football is an area I can more realistically excel, and thus I spend an inordinate amount of time playing it.

<added by Founders> I also designed the awesome new logo.

Matt writes the weekly Fantasy Football column titled “Ferrells and Fallons”.

Chuck Araneta: OuttaTownClowns, eh? Looks like I’ve stumbled onto the perfect sports site to contribute to! It doesn’t get more “Outta Town” then growing up in the Philppines in the South East, enjoying whatever sliver of NBA Basketball coverage we could chance upon. But still my love for this beautiful game continued to grow and develop over the years; now it is a part of my daily life. I graduated from one of the top Universities in the Philippines in 2007, and I’m now in the Marketing Division of one of the top TV Networks in the country. I’ve followed NBA Basketballever since Michael Jordan stepped on the old Chicago Stadium floor, and have been a die-hard supporter of the Chicago Bulls ever since. I’m excited to share with you my thoughts and insights for what will definitely be an electrifying season. Above and beyond that though, I hope to provide a unique perspective from an outsider in a foreign country, falling in love with a sport which we don’t necessarily excel at internationally. This is gonna be a wild ride! OuttaTownClown indeed.

Chuck contributes to our weekly NBA content

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