Communities-
Cubbie Bullpen Moves: Good and Bad
Jim Hendry never shows utter idiocy, or great genius. It's always solid, or bad that doesn't quite qualify as lunacy.
-
Three Cheers For Dallas Week!
BOTW previews Sunday's big game and gives a couple keys for success for Washington
-
I Don’t Want To Be A Cowboy!
Chris Paul gets Redskins nation pumped for the upcoming Dallas game.
-
2010 NBA Rookie of the Year Race
After his 55-point performance this past weekend, it is no surprise Brandon Jennings is holding down the top spot.
Recent Posts
-
Cubbie Bullpen Moves: Good and Bad
Jim Hendry never shows utter idiocy, or great genius. It's always solid, or bad that doesn't quite qualify as lunacy.
-
Three Cheers For Dallas Week!
BOTW previews Sunday's big game and gives a couple keys for success for Washington
-
I Don’t Want To Be A Cowboy!
Chris Paul gets Redskins nation pumped for the upcoming Dallas game.
-
Minnesota Vikings Playing 1998 All Over Again?
The '98 Vikes were one of the best teams ever to not win a Super Bowl. This year's group has quite a few similarities
Active Discussions
Overtime Directory
-
Association Of Roundball by David Kay
Ballin' out of control with the latest NBA information.
-
Baseball's Labyrinth by Arjuna Subramanian
Unraveling the puzzles of the national pastime.
-
Braves on the Warpath by Jose Bosch and Raminder Chadha
Finding the lighter side to the Redskins so you don't have to.
-
College Gridiron Review by Paul Banks
Both polls, and the computer rankings agree, this blog is #1
-
Golf Today: Its Players, Events and Playing Fields by Richard Mandell
Visit our grass roots endeavor to help return the sporting qualities to the game we love playing.
-
NFL Sunday Mass by Paul Banks
NFL Football League wide - It’s easy like Sunday morning to keep up with the NFL: read here
-
Rink Rat's Cheese by Peter Christian
Hockey, hockey, hockey.
-
Run, Karla, Run! by Karla Bruning
Notes From a Running Nerd. Musings and more on all things running.
-
Stock Car Portfolio by Paul Schmidt
NASCAR and beyond
-
The No-Swing Zone by Jake McCormick
The Swing Stops Here for Baseball's Biggest Stories
-
To The Point by Ilya Lobanenkov
DC Fencers Club coach talks local, regional and international fencing.
-
Year Round March Madness by David Kay
Dancing on the college hoops hardwood all year long.
Paul M. Banks founded a Chicago-based and Midwestern themed webzine The Sports Bank.net in '07. He currently oversees a staff of 12 for a website which has been featured in USA Today, ESPN, Fox, CBS, NBC, sports talk radio in multiple markets and many more media outlets. Banks was also one of just 20 young American journalists selected to participate in a Fulbright journalism fellowship in Berlin in 2006.
He started out as a football beat writer for the student daily at the University of Illinois, and in '09 he became a member of the Football Writers Association of America. Banks currently free-lances Walter Football.com. In addition to football, he especially loves college basketball; as he attended two prestigious universities that have a rich history of qualifying for Final Fours (Illinois undergrad, began his MBA at Michigan State in 2000, when they won the national title). He completed his MBA at Loyola University Chicago, another school that owns a basketball national title.
While with NBC Chicago.com for a couple of years, he covered all major professional and college sports. Paul Banks also covered the New England Patriots dynasty for a NFL Draft publication, and did guest commentating in his "polarizing" Bill Belichick Halloween costume for a Chicago Tribune Super Bowl publication. Banks also possesses an ARA sportsmanship trophy from reporting on Northwestern football, and was picked the city's official sports blogger for the Chicago 2016 Channel.