Hey. Welcome to the blog.

Here I’ll write about sports, which is what I’ve done on and off for long enough now that I can count it in decades. I’ll also spew forth about growing up, and life in the suburbs, and raising a kid, and marriage and dogs and travel and getting older, all of which I know something about. I may even think of something else.

For background’s sake, here is some biographical information. In a list, because lists and blogs go together:

Everything I’ve done in my life (in accelerating chronological order)

• Born in Wilmington, Delaware
• Lived in Middletown, Delaware
• Broke my arm falling out of a tree
• Raised in Willow Grove, Delaware
• Went hitless in an entire season of Little League baseball
• Played saxophone
• Seventh man on my six-man high school golf team
• Graduated from Caesar Rodney High School
• Worked at Nichols Discount City in Dover, Delaware
• Got on a plane, for the first time, at age 19, to go to school in Arizona
• Learned to drink beer
• Went to occasional classes
• Learned, after some trial and error, not to drink too much beer
• Discovered, really, fully, that women are not like men
• Fell into sports writing: First assignment, Scottsdale Pee Wee football
• Graduated from Arizona State University with a degree in journalism
• Moved in with my brother in Kaneohe, Hawaii
• Moved to Guam, for my first newspaper gig (The Pacific Daily News)
• Moved to Pensacola, Florida (The Pensacola News-Journal)
• Covered my first professional game (at the New Orleans Superdome)
• Covered my first college football game (Florida State at Nebraska)
• Broke my arm playing basketball
• Moved to Cincinnati, Ohio (The Cincinnati Post)
• Re-discovered the mysteries of women
• Assigned to my first professional sports beat (the Cincinnati Bengals)
• Again with the women, this time in a good way
• Moved to Columbus, Ohio
• Quickly moved from Columbus to Marietta, Georgia (CNNSI.com and, later, SI.com)
• Became the father of a 9 pound, 15 ounce boy
• Discovered my first gray hair
• Moved to a cul de sac in a quiet subdivision in Alpharetta, Georgia
• Assigned to my first national professional beat (Major League Baseball)
• Tried my hand at “managing” writers (NBA.com)
• Still moving

So, now you’re caught up.

I might’ve missed something. I’ll fill in the blanks in this blog.

— John Donovan
Alpharetta, Georgia
April 2015