Now an alumnus of BOB44.com, Bart Barry III contributed tireless hours with cutting edge boxing analysis, hard-hitting interviews and precision backoffice technical design. His eighteen month tenure elevated the site's boxing section to regional and national acclaim. Mr. Barry was promoted to CBS Sportsline affiliate 15ROUNDS.com, a nationally syndicated online publication.
Bart provides us with a brief personal backdrop:
Born in 1974, I was raised in Massachusetts -- where I passionately cheered the Pittsburgh Penguins, the New York Yankees, the Philadelphia 76ers, and sometimes, the New England Patriots. Although an unappreciative youngster, I was allowed to captain my high-school hockey and golf teams. Soon thereafter I headed westward, where I've resided since my eighteenth birthday.
Not till I'd completed a decade outside the sporting town of Boston did I reform myself and become a Red Sox fan, but that, too, required some western influence. After four years at ASU and an entrepreneurial tryst with English-language instruction, I began a professional path that took me in the world of information technology -- and eventually planted me in the rich soil of San Jose, California. After performing as a software developer in Silicon Valley for two years, I forsook much good counsel and many possessions and moved to Jalisco, Mexico.
The fifty or so months since my emigration have seen me reside in a small Mexican apartment, on the couch of a small American apartment, and now in the book-filled Phoenix apartment that I share with my wife. These same months have watched me write five full-length novels and many short stories, while subsisting with various technical-support jobs.
Unlike our site's lead columnist and designer, Bob Benedetti, I have few interests, and they all begin with a phonetic 'R': Reading, wRiting and Running. I try to work through a monthly reading regimen of classical literature, American history and sports lore. I endeavor to write no fewer than 6,000 words each week. And though a very large shadow of my former running self, I still try to jog some 40 monthly miles.
Heretical as it may be to not include names such as Bobby Orr, Larry Bird, Wade Boggs, or Tom Brady in my list of favorite sports figures, I hope for redemption by staying within my state of origin, when choosing an all-time favorite: Marvelous Marvin Hagler. The head-shaven prodigy who fought out of Brockton, Massachusetts forever lives within a top-three list of greatest middleweight pugilists of the twentieth century. Concerning current athletes, I cheer for Curt Schilling more than any other -- and his pre-relocation time in Arizona is what made me a Sox fan, many years later than appropriate. But, as you may find in my contributions to Bob44.com, I cheer for coaches and trainers more often than I cheer for their charges.
Finally, any criticism or column ideas from our readers are always welcome: I suspect your critiques will do with me what Thomas Hearns' first-round right hands did to Marvelous Marvin: "Make me madder."