About Tailgate
Tailgate is the sports section of Gapers Block, covering all Chicago sports, big and small.
Editors
Ken Green, Sports Editor - Tailgate
Ken Green is a lifelong Chicagoan, ex-newspaper reporter, editor and sportswriter, a sometimes poet, wannabe playwright and lousy dancer. He was a member of several poetry slam teams, placed third in the Goodman Theater's David Mamet Write-a-like contest, can run a 5K and thinks 2005 is the greatest year in Chicago sports history. Email him at kg@gapersblock.com.
Andrew Huff, Editor & Publisher
Staff
Vanessa Day
Vanessa Day is a graduate student at DePaul University studying writing and publishing. She loves reading, playing sports, and traveling. Catch up with her life at A Traveler's Mind.
Brian Lauvray
A self-proclaimed "obstinate cad and thief of all things pertinent or humorous to my lifestyle," Brian writes about football for Gapers Block. Additionally, he writes restaurant and bar reviews for the Not For Tourists guidebook series; beyond that he produces and hosts a quasi-weekly and poorly received sports/culture podcast with Tom Katers. Listen here.
Michael Longhini
Michael Longhini was born and raised in the north suburbs of Chicago. After a brief hiatus to attend college at UC - Santa Barbara, he returned to the city after graduation to pursue his career. Despite the struggles of his favorite Chicago sports team over the years, he can't help but love them.
Brian Livingston
Brian Livingston is a graduate of T.F. South High School and currently attends Columbia College, where he majors in sports journalism. Livingston was raised on South Side of Chicago, but has an undying devotion to the Chicago Cubs. He can be found spending his summers at Wrigley Field cheering on his Cubbies. Livingston looks forward to being one of the future baseball writers of America.
Kara Luger
Kara is a Chicago transplant who escaped from the Rocky Mountain high that is Colorado, and before that, North Dakota. She currently works as an editor and writer of things both structurally and sonically sound. She enjoys reading obsessively, knitting, live music, and beating the holy hell out of other women (i.e. roller derby).
Jeremy Piniak
Pucks in Five
Jeremy Piniak grew up watching hockey on all levels and is a lifelong Blackhawks fan who, inexplicably, still has hope that Bill Wirtz will once again provide Chicago with a championship hockey team and broadcast home games on TV, though he still mourns the destruction of Chicago Stadium.
Shanna Quinn
Shanna is a Chicago native who often enjoys eating icing, hates wearing socks, and loves exploring Chicago neighborhoods. Her two favorite words are savvy and urban. Shanna works as the contributing editor for the online travel magazine GoGalavanting.
Marco Scola
Marco Scola is a Columbia College Chicago student studying broadcast journalism and will hopefully become a sports newscaster or a play-by-play announcer. He is absolutely in love with the Chicago Cubs and the Chicago Bears.
Zach Thomas
R. Zach Thomas, a recent transplant to Chicago from Ohio, and graduate student of journalism at Ohio University, spends most of his time working on his thesis and racing bikes for the Half Acre Cycling Team. When he's not sorting data or riding his bike, he likes doing boring things such as eating oatmeal, reading the newspaper, and going to bed early.
