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I am a freelance writer living in Riverside, California. I spent 25 years in the sports department at a daily newspaper, where I learned to appreciate tight writing and to hate television timeouts. When I run the world, Mario Cuomo's 1984 Democratic Convention keynote speech will be required reading in all schools, and the works of Warren Zevon will be included with the classics.