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I'm Dan Flaherty, and I'm the owner of the The American Sentinel network of weblogs that cover sports on a conference and divisional basis. I grew up in the Midwest, moved to Pittsburgh in 1999 and then to the Baltimore area on Christmas weekend of 2007.
Now you can take the boy out of the Big Ten, but you can't take the Big Ten out of the boy. I cover college football and basketball through Big Ten Country. Founded in 2005, it's the longest running of the trio of blogs and has taken me to the press box of the Capitol One Bowl.
My pro sports interests are on the same eastern trajectory that my residence has been. My new location is the ideal venue for covering AL East Nation, with Camden Yards right in my backyard, New York a day trip away and the great city of Boston just a five-hour drive off. And Baltimore's proximity to Washington D.C., Philadelphia and New York make it a good location to observe NFC East Nation up close. My decision in the offseason of 1996 to become a Red Sox fan rejuvenated my entire interest in baseball. I may not be a cradle Red Sox fan, but please note that I became a long-distance Sox admirer well before it became the latest trendy thing. And there is nothing in my life that I have done longer then be a Redskins fan, dating back to that awful Christmas of 1979 when the team blew leads of 17-0 and 34-21 in Dallas on the last day, losing homefield advantage, the division and the playoffs all in one fell swoop.
I'm also the author an Irish Catholic novel set in postwar Boston. Fulcrum captures the Irish-American community on the threshold of social change, as six teenagers see their traditional neighborhood changing and grapple for a response that will be true to their roots and to their conscience. The story unfolds against the backdrop of a classic old-fashioned urban mayoral campaign and a Red Sox-Yankees pennant race. A link to order the book from Amazon is below.
