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Paul Schmidt is a Chicago-based journalist who has covered every sport imaginable at every level possible. Whether it is professional football or high school water polo, Paul has been there.

A University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign graduate in 2001, Paul's career path to journalism followed a remarkably similar path as that of the sports he has covered -- All-encompassing. He has been a financial planner and worked in a bank. He has managed a video store and worked in repairs at an oil company that owned gas stations. He also sold used cars and worked in coffee shops, in an ongoing effort to work in every possible industry imaginable.

Currently, Paul is writing at The Sports Bank, located at thesportsbank.net. Paul writes about college football and basketball (primarily Illinois), the Chicago Cubs and the Chicago Bears. He also makes weekly picks against the spread in both college football and basketball entitled "You Can Take It to The Bank." 

He is a long-suffering Cubs fan, as well as a long-suffering Illinois football and basketball fan. Actually, he is also a long-suffering Bears fan, with just one brief moment of respite in 2006 when the Bears reached the Super Bowl. It is actually easy to understand why Paul tends to get really fanatical about his teams when you realize that he barely remembers a championship in the teams that he cares about (those 1985 Bears).

Paul lives in Chicago -- Just a short walk from Wrigley Field -- with his wife and newborn son.

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