Welcome to my blog. My name is Perry Suppa. I am and always have been a bit of a sports geek. I'm in a fantasy league for each of the 4 majors. The only 4 majors. I'll watch Tiger in a golf major or a Federer-Nadal final but there are 4 major team sports, basketball, hockey, baseball and football in no particular order.

As for my street cred, I was a 3 year varsity basketball player at Notre Dame High School, one of only two players to play alongside both Nigel Miguel, class of 81' and Jamie Dixon 83'. If Jamie's name sounds familiar, it's because he's the head coach at the University of Pittsburgh, currently the #4 team in the nation.

Yesterday, Pitt defeated the University of Cincinnati. In truth, they put on a show. That show appealed to both basketball purists and the hyperbolic park-pick-up game crowd.

There was a sequence where Pitt worked the ball around the perimeter, including a textbook bounce pass into sophomore superstar Dejuan Blair after which Blair refusing to force a bad shot, kicked the ball back out. Two passes later a Bearcat defender lost sight of Gilbert Brown for a moment, he motioned to point guard Levance Fields and Fields through a slick lob pass to the rim for the emphatic slam.

Minutes later all 5 Pitt players were in the lane as a defensive rebound came off. Somehow they broke out 3 on 1 and it was Fields again finding Sam Young shooting down the middle for an even more EMPHATIC SLAM.

Ok, your favorite player is Tim Duncan. Maybe you'd like the play where Pitt went around the horn as if all 5 players needed to touch the ball before a shot went up, which culminated in a Tyrell Biggs three.

Pitt got me so darn fired up yesterday. Incidentally, my high school sweetheart was Charli Turner Thorne, the women's basketball coach at Arizona St, and I taped the Pitt game because I took my daughter's 4th grade basketball team to see the Sun Devils beat UCLA at Pauley Pavilion, thanks to tickets from Charli.

It's pretty amazing to think two of the people I was closest to in high school, actually 3 if you count Cy Young Award winner Jack McDowell, a teammate and friend as well, have reached such great heights in the sports world. I'd like to think my presence helped them in their journeys. Indeed, mix a healthy dose of alcohol into the equation and I often become solely responsible for their success.

I'm certain all 3 would attest to the fact I'm a true sports geek, pure and simple. That sports love has fostered a love for fantasy sports.

People ask me all the time "what's your favorite team?" Except for Pitt(men) and ASU(women) in college hoops, I'm not really a diehard fan of any team. I hop on any bandwagon that appeals to me; the Chargers(my older brother's team), UCLA men(a favorite both before and after Jamie's mentor-Ben Howland got the job), the Lakers(I live in Los Angeles and grew up a fan but I'm honest enough with myself to know that I love the Lakers over the Cavs but prefer Lebron James to Kobe).

My real favorite team is the Corleone Family, the name I've adopted for all 4 of my fantasy teams. I follow the players on my roster as well as "scout" other players in order to assess their value. I won my football league and both my hockey and basketball teams are in first place right now so I definitely have some fantasy game.

I hope you enjoy my blog. Thanks for reading.