Some of you have wondered what happened to the greatest assemblage of creative talent since Veronica Corningstone broke up the Channel 4 News Team in San Diego. Well, wonder no more.
Here is that group, pictured at Bo Mitchell’s wedding in October of 2007. From left to right they are as follows:
Christian Peterson—A finalist for FSWA Fantasy Golf Writer of the Year, Christian now works for another former Fanballer, Paul Charchian, on their new product, LeagueSafe. CP is also contributing some fantasy sports writing at Fantasy Football Champs.
John Tuvey—If you’re here, you already know 2V… you know, because, this is his site. But the vast majority of his writing can be found at The Huddle, where he serves as Senior NFL Analyst. He’s also been known from time to time to swing by Fantasy Football Champs and Fantasy Football Trader, perhaps to borrow a cup of sugar.
Bo Mitchell—The groom in this picture and the former publisher of Fanball, Bo moved to a similar role at Fantasy Football Champs, where he is slowly stockpiling former Fanball writers for a palace coup. Bo also indulges his passion for the hardball with the good folks at Inside Edge.
Anthony Maggio—Last I saw Magsh he was on the corner of Washington and 3rd holding a sign that says, “Will write for beer.” Magsh has about 17 irons in the fire, many of them sports related; since I don’t feel like updating this page every four days when he adds another paragraph to his resume, suffice it to say he’s banging a keyboard somewhere.
Jonathan Lopuch—If you’re a parent, you may need to sit down before reading this. Comfy? Pooch is going back to school to pick up a masters in education so he can help form the minds of America’s youth as a teacher. It’s an occupation that will allow him to both coach (he was the second choice to replace Tom Creen; thankfully it never came to that) and write about sports, which he is doing for Fantasy Football Champs and Fantasy Football Trader, among others.
Ted Carlson—The deciding vote in the “blue shirt vs. black shirt” battle, Ted continues to churn out quality fantasy content at Fanball.com. My severance agreement prohibits me from saying anything negative about my former employer, though I don’t know if that extends to things I could say about Ted personally. Of course, I have nothing negative to say about Ted personally, so the point is moot.
Noah Wenz—Kind of like the Fifth Beatle, Noah was the guy who made Fanball products look so gosh darn good despite our photographs being in them. He remains employed by Fanball doing that same voodoo that he does so well. So if nothing else the magazines will still look fantastic. That’s not negative, right?
Jason Powell (not pictured)—We’re pretty sure Jason was at the wedding. Maybe he was taking the picture. Maybe he was trying to talk one of the bridesmaids into a three-way. Maybe he had already left to dote on his common law girlfriend. Maybe he’s the reason Magsh is smiling. Whatever, he is back on the wrestling beat with his own wildly popular website, prowrestling.net. But he still can’t get the Crusher to leave my voice mail message for me.
Kinda brings a tear to your eye, doesn’t it?
