Brian O'Connell
- Age: 28
- Gender: Male
- Occupation: full-time sucker/part-time student
- Location: East Providence : RI : United States
About Me
Brian O'Connell has been writing about soccer since before can he can remember, or since 2006. Prior to that, he wrote for SoxProspects.com dispensing his knowledge on all things associated with the Pawtucket Red Sox. As an adolescent, he wrote often to his local paper, the Providence Journal, to bestow an array of incredibly well-thought out opinions on baseball, football and soccer for feature in the now-extinct "Voice of the Fan" section. He discovered his love for sportswriting at age nine, when it was evident that his disposition for creating home-made baseball magazines (Baseball Rookie Report, Backyard Baseball) just wasn't normal. At all. Incredibly, he managed to fail tenth grade English, which spurred/forced him to go to summer school and re-evaluate his life. Luckily, he got most of his stuff back together to create a handful of blogs that are happily taking up their own small, yet valuable, pieces of real estate on the interweb.
Your hand has been replaced by a rubber stamp. What does it say?
"I want my hand back."
Interests
- Baseball
- soccer
- football
- minor league hockey
- reading
- writing
- buying copious amounts of jerseys to add to my collection.
Favorite Movies
- One in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos
- Miracle Match
- Field of Dreams
- Bend it Like Beckham
- Juice
- Boyz N' the Hood
- Training Day
- Forrest Gump
- Wedding Crashers
- Dumb & Dumber
- Sandlot
- Fever Pitch
- Beauty & the Beast
- Aladdin
- Lion King
- Bull Durham
- many more...
Favorite Music
- Jay-Z
- 2Pac
- NaS
- Jim Jones
- Diplomats
- Tears for Fears
- Genesis
- Jason Mraz
- Phil Collins
- The Game
- Juelz Santana
- D-Block
- JadaKiss
- Styles P
- Christina Aguilera
- John Mayer
- Michelle Branch
- Vanessa Carlton
- Akon
- Britney Spears
- Danity Kane
- Pussycat Dolls
- Old school hip hop and R & B
- En Vogue
- Kriss Kross
- Joe Public
- late-80s
- early-90s pop
- and other quirky favorites that I can't think of.
Favorite Books
- Fever Pitch
- Now I Can Die in Peace
- John Adams
- 1776
- Game of Shadows
- Once in a Lifetime
- Moneyball
- The Ball is Round
- The Soul of Baseball
- All the President's Men
- The Game of Their Lives
- Tuesdays with Morrie
- My Favourite Year
- Bloody Consfused!
My Blogs |
Team Members |
| Welcome to the House of Soccer* | |
|---|---|
| Brian O'Connell is not the smartest man in soccer | |
| The Quintessential Rhode Island Mall Blog | |
| The Official Rhode Island Stingrays Blog |
