About SportsCellar

Why focus yet again on the winners when in fact there is significantly more disappointment and underachievement than success and accomplishment? Today there are more multi-millionaires putting up amateur numbers, more teams promising and not delivering, more owners talking the talk but not walking the walk.

With parody, satire and common sense, SportsCellar goes well past the obvious, and straight to the heart of the downside of sports... to the SportsCellar.

Staff

Jeff Flakels, SportsCellar Editor

Being born and raised and still currently living in Los Angeles, Jeff Flakels has struggled with the irregularities of being an LA sports fan, as well as living in LA and being a fan of out-of-town teams. One constant seems to remain though that no matter where he takes his team allegiances, he somehow always find his way to the SportsCellar. Uniquely qualified as a long suffering fan of some of the most down-trodden and snake-bitten in the world of sports, Jeff brings his personal perspective to the lowliest of lows, where it likely will remain. Lest he be confused with a Boston, New York, Chicago or Philly sports fan, he's just that rarest of rare breeds, a passionate sports fan from Los Angeles who somehow escaped the prerequisite West Coast softening. Maybe he truly is misplaced though, because he does like cold weather (somewhere in the low to mid 70s).

Jeff can be reached via email at jflakels@sportscellar.com

Arvin K. Wormser, SportsCellar Editor

Arvin Wormser cannot be accused of being a statistical memory bank for sports. But here at SportsCellar, he has this uncanny knack of pointing out the obvious and making a whole lot of fun out of it. Frankly, there are teams that consistently stink, and they will always stink until something radical happens (and he does not mean new uniforms or moving to a new city). As a long-suffering Los Angeles Rams fan (back to the era of Ray Malavasi, Billy Waddy, Preston Denard, et al.), appalled by their move to, of all places, St. Louis, Arvin's mission here at SportsCellar is to talk straight about the teams that consistently rise to the level of their own ineptitude. His west-coast perspective is not (too) clouded by his love of the Rams, Anaheim Angels, and the Los Angeles Kings Hockey Club, as he will pointedly show when they are residing in the SportsCellar.

Arvin can be reached via email at awormser@sportscellar.com

Duffy Kershaw, SportsCellar Staff Writer

Hailing originally from the upper Midwest, Ronald "Duffy" Kershaw brings to SportsCellar his unique perspective forged by growing up on a steady diet of all sports, yet never being athletic enough or good enough to play any of them. As a pre-teen and teenager, he did what every other kid around him did, he attempted to play youth football and hockey. As he grew older, he became even less athletic (probably due to the fact that he watched more sports than he played). When he was unsuccessful in his attempt to walk on his college football team, he decided he would let go of his aspirations of ever being a rich and famous athlete, and he turned his attention to playing golf and criticizing rich and famous athletes. He gave up on team allegiances when he discovered that professional sports leagues allowed for free agency and college athletics were corrupt.

Duffy can be reached via email at dkershaw@sportscellar.com

William Crotchett, SportsCellar Staff Writer

William Crotchett considers the Pacific Northwest his sports home-base. He's been a long-time Major League Baseball and NBA Basketball fan, and he hopes that some day the NHL and the NFL will call the area home. He followed closely the near-title runs of both the Sonics and the Mariners in the nineties and early zeroes, only to be disappointed. Its probably better they didn't win, since he's only ever experienced disappointment and frustration with sports and the teams he's followed (he had his mind on other things when the Sonics won their title in '79) and he's a little worried about what it would feel like if one of his teams did actually win a title. As long as his teams are in the tank or just coming up a bit short, William maintains his edge and his ability to remain firmly unadjusted in the SportsCellar where he belongs.

William can be reached via email at wcrotchett@sportscellar.com

Ian MacGreggor, SportsCellar Staff Writer

Ian MacGreggor hails from a small hamlet on the Clyde River just outside Glasgow, Scotland. At the age of five, Ian's family emigrated to Detroit, where his love of Lions football, Tigers baseball, and, funny enough (and sometimes embarrassingly), his devotion to the Chicago Blackhawks was fostered. Though through his American youth, the "kid with the funny accent" still maintained a deep tie to all that is Celtic (Glasgow) Football. To Ian, any team with the name "Rangers" is a scourge and should be thrown in a cauldron of boiling oil. Known for rallying around useless facts as the basis of his work (did you know that Glasgow only has 600 thousand people, but FOUR top league football sides???), Ian's goal is to see the Blackhawks win the Cup, and the Detroit Lions simply win eight games. Don't ask him what the Tigers need. Even he can't solve that one.

Ian can be reached via email at imacgreggor@sportscellar.com

Rusty Fromage, SportsCellar Staff Writer

Rusty Fromage was raised in one of the smallest towns in North Dakota, which sort of explains the topics he seems to circle around (well it actually doesn't but he needed an excuse for his non-centrist topics). With a strong love of horticulture and the Minnesota Vikings, Rusty is known for being the guy with the off-beat answer for why sports is the way it is. When not imitating Minnesota Fats on the pool table, Rusty finds himself defending Dennis Green from the onslaught of abuse that gets leveled Dennis' way. Rusty will be the first to tell you that Minnesota is replete with heroes and goats and, of course, as a SportsCellar Staff Writer he is always looking for the next goat.

Rusty can be reached via email at rfromage@sportscellar.com

Shaun Broyls, SportsCellar Television

Shaun can be reached via email at shaun@sportscellar.com

Grayson Berry, SportsCellar Television

Grayson can be reached via email at grayson@sportscellar.com

The Sports Guru, SportsCellar Contributing Writer

The Guru can be reached via email at sportsguru@sportscellar.com