Guest Columnist
Nate Sullivan joined the Rotowhine.com staff of contributors in October of 2007 and was the first guest columnist on the site. He’ll be able to tell his grandkids about this, but they won’t understand what the hell he’s talking about. As an avid fantasy sports player, his brain will have turned to mush well before his own children reach puberty.
Sullivan knew he was meant to write about sports at an early age; in 1991, as a 4th grader, he completed a brilliant, eight-page manifesto on Roger Clemens’ history of postseason failures in response to a state-mandated writing test — unfortunately, the requested subject was “My Favorite Holiday”. He received an “off-topic” score on the exam, and was recommended for counseling; irregardless, the seed had been planted, and before long, his pithy literary missives had earned him a novelty D.A.R.E. basketball (in 1993) and a degree in Political Science from the extremely fancy-looking University of Richmond (in 2004).
Since graduating, Nate has rapidly ascended the corporate ladder, working as a cook, a parking attendant, an unpaid videographer, a bass player, a technical writer, and now as the chief landscape management technologist of the Cleveland, Ohio, residence he shares with his extremely patient wife, Taryn. He’s also an avid musician, but that hasn’t made him any better – you can hear him in all his glory at www.stage.fm/nate, or in his Cleveland-based punk rock band, at www.streetsaheadband.com.
The Rhode Island native and recent transplant has two extremely active little cats, but no cable TV. Somehow, he endures.
