Our Writers

Joey Kaufman - Senior Editor

Hailing from Burbank, California, Joey is the co-founder of SoCal Sports Hub and the 1,000th aspiring journalist. Previously, Joey has written for West Coast Bias, LombardiAve, and ArmchairGM. Here at SoCal Sports Hub, Joey will rant and rave on all Southern California sports teams in his column, “Kaufy Break.” You can contact Joey via email at: joey@socalsportshub.com

Matt Tolich - Columnist/Site Editor - Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim

Matt is a twenty-year-old writer covering the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim for SoCal Sports Hub. Though he started out a Dodgers fan, he quickly recognized the error of his ways, and began to follow the Angels. His greatest memories of the Angels include Game 6 of the 2002 World Series, Vlad Guerrero’s performance against the Mariners on 9/20/07, and Darin Erstad’s many great catches. Matt currently resides in Apple Valley, California.

Luke Stephens - Columnist/Site Editor

Luke is a 16-year-old high school student born, raised, and living in the greater Los Angeles area. He has been a fan of the Trojans, Lakers, and Dodgers for his whole life.

Bill Seitz - Columnist - LA Seitz of Chicago

Bill is a Southern California native, alumnus of UC Riverside and the University of Illinois, now living in Chicago. Still an Angeleno at heart, he maintains contact with his roots via the various cable television sports packages; he watches every Angels, Kings, and UCLA Bruins game he can, and he catches the Angels and Kings in person whenever they’re in town. He’s blogged the Angels, Kings, Bruins, and Illini for the last three years at laseitz.blogspot.com, where he occasionally indulges himself in posts about live music in Chicago. On summer weekends, he can found on one of Chicago’s many suburban golf courses.

Connie Kim - Columnist - Los Angeles Kings

Connie (A Queen Among Kings) became a diehard Los Angeles Kings fans during the Wayne Gretzky years of the 1990s. Now, living thirty miles south of Staples Center, she has remained a loyal Kings fan and can be found ranting about the team at her blog: A Queen Among Kings.

Rick Devereux - Columnist - San Diego Chargers

Rick has been a sports writer since 1997, covering everything from Little League and recreational soccer, to the NHL, NBA, MLB and NFL. He has followed the Lakers and Padres his whole life, but those two pale in comparision to his loyalty to his beloved Chargers.

Andrew Ungvari - Contributor - Los Angeles Lakers

Andrew is a 31-year-old screenwriter from Los Angeles, California. His film, Fourteen Feet, is currently in development at Walt Disney Pictures and his play, Baggage, will debut in Los Angeles in 2008. Ungvari is a graduate of Beverly Hills High School and Loyola Marymount University’s School of Film & Television.

Dean Rohla - Contributor - Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim

Dean is a Southern California native residing in the Seattle area. Rohla is a lifelong Angels fan, accountant by trade, and blogger for kicks. He watches and listens to Angels baseball via DirecTv Extra Innings, MLB.TV, and Gameday Audio. He also play softball on 3-4 teams a week. When he isn’t posting here or on Halos Heaven, Rohla can be found playing softball or even mowing the lawn. You can contact Dean Rohla via email at: drohla@yahoo.com.

Jason R. May - Contributor - Los Angeles Dodgers

Jason is a 34-year-old self-proclaimed sports nut who plays softball, baseball, football and basketball. About a year and a half ago, he moved to Southern California from the college football obsessed town, Nashville, Tennessee. However, it didn’t take him long to immerse himself in the Southern California sports scene. It was a natural fit. Since his youth, Jason was already a Dodgers fan with his favorite player being none other than the legendary third baseman, Steve Garvey. He was also a Lakers fan from when Magic Johnson led the team during the 80’s. During his short stint in Southern California, he has become a very passionate Dodgers fan and has joined the team at SoCal Sports Hub in order to share his passion with other fans.

Shane Norton - Contributor - Los Angeles Dodgers

Despite being raised in Derby, Connecticut, Shane somehow ended up becoming a Dodgers fan, through older brother, Don, who was living in Los Angeles during Shane’s childhood. Shane would later go on to graduate from Southern Connecticut State University and now works as a studio technician for ESPN. Here at SoCal Sports Hub, Shane will largely rant and rave about his favorite baseball team, the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Lucio Rodriguez - Contributor - Los Angeles Dodgers

Lucio is a Los Angeles native that loves (in equal amounts) the Dodgers, reading, bean and cheese burritos, Los Angeles, traveling, the summer, writing and the nightlife. He’s also a fan of all teams that have an L.A. before, after, or in between their names, yes even the Angels and USC sport teams. Hybrid fans do exist you know. He’s 30-years-old, a 2nd generation Mexican-American, so yeah - he’s also a Raiders fan.