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Staff Bios
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Owner/Publisher
Hansen has published FantasyGuru.com, one of the oldest fantasy information sites on the Internet, since 1995. A former rock disc jockey, Hansen began appearing on a sports cable TV show in New Jersey under the name “The Fantasy Guru” in 1994 and quickly gained a reputation for his predictions and evaluations. Hansen’s first foray in the fantasy sports media business was a position at ESPN.com, where he was the first fantasy football columnist for the popular Web site, starting in 1996.
As the years passed, Hansen’s reputation as an authority on fantasy football grew quickly, due in large part to his success as a fantasy player in high-profile “Expert Leagues” comprised only of fantasy writers, and his exposure on national TV, Radio, and Print. In the various fantasy football expert leagues put on by numerous media entities such as ESPN, CBS Sportsline, and Yahoo! Sports. Hansen has won 14 titles, including championships in leagues run by those three outlets.
When the NFL
Network and NFL Films decided to cover fantasy sports, they called Hansen,
who appeared weekly on “NFL Fantasy Live” alongside former NFL Player Ron
Jaworski and on the NFL Network's “Playbook” show alongside former NFL
Players Sterling Sharpe and Solomon Wilcots. When the NFL
wanted to produce a strategy-based preseason DVD on fantasy football in
2003, Hansen was asked to be the prominent expert. Hansen also appears
weekly (since 2003) as the chief fantasy analyst on the “Fantasy Fix”
show on Comcast Sportsnet’s local stations, which also air nationally on
Direct TV.
Specializing in football, Hansen is one of the most “connected” fantasy writers in the country and attends events such as the Super Bowl, NFL Draft, and the annual Scouting Combine, interacting with NFL players, coaches, analysts, agents, and insiders alike.
A 1993 graduate of Rowan University, Hansen is married with four children and resides in Southern New Jersey, just outside of Atlantic City, where he spends his spare time coaching little league baseball. |
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NFL Analyst/Insider
With FantasyGuru.com merging with footballinjuries.com in 2008, NFL Insider Adam Caplan has come on board as a regular contributor to FantasyGuru.com. Caplan has been covering the NFL and fantasy football for almost 15 years, most notably as the editor of Footballinjuries.com, which merged with FantasyGuru.com in 2008. Caplan has also been a national NFL reporter for Scout.com since 2004. In addition, he works as Sirius NFL Radio host and also appears regularly on various shows, breaking news on the air, and also co-hosting "Sirius Fantasy Football" with FantasyGuru.com publisher John Hansen. Caplan has also been heard on ESPN Radio weekends on the V Show with host Bob Valvano and appears regularly on KFAN Radio in Minnesota. Caplan also appears on a semi-regular basis on "Daily News Live" on Comcast Sportsnet in Philadelphia. From strictly a fantasy perspective, he also appeared weekly on “NFL Fantasy Live” on NFL.com and Direct TV and on the NFL Network's “Playbook” show. Caplan was also a chief fantasy analyst on the NFL's DVD on fantasy football in 2003, plus he's appeared over the years on the “Fantasy Fix” show on Comcast Sportsnet. Caplan has won well over 10 Expert League titles, and he's been playing fantasy football since the early 90s. A true NFL insider, Caplan is the most “connected” member of the fantasy community and attends events such as the NFL Draft, Super Bowl, Scouting Combine, and Owners Meetings, interacting with NFL players, coaches, analysts, agents, and insiders alike. |
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Managing Editor
LeConey is an accomplished sports journalist with nearly 15 years of experience as a daily newspaper reporter and freelance writer. He wrote more than 5,300 bylined articles for The Press of Atlantic City from 1992-2004, covering a broad range of sports at every level from youth to college to pro. He was an NHL and NBA beat writer on the Philadelphia Flyers and 76ers, and covered everything from the World Series to the NFC Championship Game, Stanley Cup playoffs and NCAA Basketball Tournament.
LeConey, a 1984 graduate of Gettysburg College, won a national award in the 1995 Associated Press Sports Editors contest for a story on the future of horse racing at Atlantic City Race Course. He earned special recognition from the Art Dorrington Ice Hockey Foundation in Atlantic City for articles on the organization’s efforts to provide hockey and education to inner-city youths. |
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Staff Writer
Zap joined our staff full-time in 2007 and
quickly immersed himself in the art of fantasy football analysis and
coverage. An English major who attended Villanova University and
graduated from Rowan University in New Jersey, Zap excelled in Baseball
in High School at Cherry Hill East and was named to the All South Jersey
team in 1999. Nearly a 10-year fantasy football veteran, Zap's first
foray in a high-stakes league came in 2007 in
Rotobowl, where he finished the
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Staff Writer Korbel is an avid fantasy football player for nearly 15 years and has been contributing to FantasyGuru.com as a staff writer since 2000.
Korbel is probably best known as FantasyGuru.com's resident Average Draft Position (ADP) expert. Each NFL preseason (beginning in May) he searches the Web for every mock and real fantasy draft he can find, compiles the data, and generates the most comprehensive ADP analysis anywhere. During the season, Korbel pens weekly analysis articles entitled "Inside the Box score" and he's also the man charged with the role of Commissioner for the FantasyGuru.com Magazine Expert League.
Korbel holds a Bachelor's Degree in Education from North Dakota State University and a Master's Degree in Communications from Minnesota State University-Mankato. He resides in Owatonna, MN with his wife and 2 children where he oversees the Training Department for a large manufacturing firm. |
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Staff Writer Simons, a 14-year fantasy veteran, has been a staff writer for FantasyGuru.com since 1995. In addition to his contributions to FantasyGuru.com, Simons has been commissioner of such esteemed and groundbreaking leagues as ffWebMASTERS expert league since 2001, the innovative HAFA-X in its’ inaugural season of 2003, and Hardcore Fantasy Invitational since 2004.
Simons continues to have success in numerous high-profile “Expert Leagues” such as Fan-Ex Online, ffWebMASTERS, and INSANEX as well as innovative detailed leagues such as Hardcore Fantasy Invitational (HFI) and Hire And Fire Association (HAFA). As partner with John Hansen, Simons won the Fan-Ex Online Championship in 2005. He also won the ffWebMASTERS championship in 2005. In 2003, Simons was part of a team that captured the championship in the inaugural season of Hire And Fire Association (HAFA).
During the past 15 years, Simons has cultivated his craft as an Instant Replay engineer/technician in the Northwest and nationwide. He works for the cutting-edge in-house scoreboard show of the Seattle Seahawks. He also works all the Seattle Mariners, Seattle Supersonics, and Washington Huskies home games. His clientele includes networks like CBS, ABC, ESPN, NBC, FOX, OLN, and other broadcasting entities. Some of his accomplishments include working the 2000 Summer Sydney Olympics, Games 6 and 7 of the 2002 World Series, and a nine-year hitch as Production Coordinator for a million dollar a year distance learning facility at the University of Massachusetts. Simons is a consummate professional, is thorough in his attention to detail, and is a firm believer of objectivity
A 1979 graduate of Springfield Technical Community College and a 1982 graduate of Fitchburg State College, Simons currently resides outside of the Emerald City of Seattle, Washington. He is currently single but engaged and has a fourteen year-old daughter. |
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Staff Writer,
IDP Expert
Born
and raised in South Bend, IN, Tim O’Malley is a graduate of the
University of Notre Dame and created his first Full IDP Football
League in 1989. O’Malley grew up a spoiled NFL fan, revelling in the
success of Football’s Greatest Dynasty, the San Francisco 49ers. It
pains him every time his beloved Niners are now referred to as
“scrappy.”
A
veteran of countless fantasy drafts, he has but one nugget of wisdom
to pass along to any faithful readers: Do not, under any
circumstances, use both of your 3rd round draft picks on
a “rehabbing” Ki-Jana Carter and a rookie named Lawrence Phillips.
Tough hole to dig out of…
O’Malley has lived in Atlanta since 1999 and is a Senior Marketing
Associate with Cushman & Wakefield. His free time is spent
travelling to sporting events, especially Saturdays in the fall, and
continuously honing his skills in case there’s ever a national
Madden 1993 Sega Genesis Tournament.
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Staff Writer
Horn, our resident stat head, has been playing fantasy football for nine years. He wrote for the Fantasy Beat website for a year before joining Fantasy Guru in 2005. In his first expert league, he took home a championship this past season (2006) in the Y! Expert Auction League. Horn retired from the US Army in 2000 after a 21-year career as an infantryman and foreign area officer. He served in Italy, Portugal, and Germany as well as at Fort Benning, Fort Irwin, Fort Leavenworth, Fort Bragg, and the Pentagon in the United States. While on active duty, he earned his Ranger tab, Air Assault Badge, and Master Parachutist Badge. Horn is a graduate of a small engineering college on the Hudson that once ranked 299th out of 300 on a list of party schools. Not content with the rigor of that education, he later attended #300, the University of Chicago, for a Masters in European History. He also graduated from the US Army Command and General Staff College and the Portuguese Staff College. He now works as a defense (military, not football) analyst for a major defense contractor in the Washington, DC area. He lives there with his wife, Gayla, and two dogs, Lola and Napoleon. Besides football, his interests include travel, cooking, eating well, and volunteer work at a local animal shelter. |
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Baseball Writer/Contributor Pianowski has been playing fantasy sports for 20 years and writing about them for over a decade. Pianowski's background was in print journalism before making the switch to the web in 1997. He wrote regularly for the Providence Journal, Woonsocket Call and Lowell Sun over the previous decade, and his work also appeared in the Washington Post, Baltimore Sun, and Anchorage Daily News, among other papers. Triple-A baseball was one of Pianowski's regular beats in the early 1990s; he was in the McCoy Stadium press box in Pawtucket, R.I. the night the Red Sox traded Jeff Bagwell for Larry Andersen. A veteran fantasy writer who has contributed to many well-known sites, Scott spearheads our preseason fantasy baseball coverage each year. |