Memories of CBSSports.com/Sportsline

Here's a quick list of top memories from my 14 years, 11 months at CBSSports.com/Sportsline.

(Note: There are many more. These just came to mind first. Feel free to add. )

 -- On my interview, being told by Mark Mariani: "If you get the job, that’ll be the last time you wear a tie."

-- Steve Miller doing his dance around a sombrero on the Newsroom floor to celebrate the rising stock price.

-- Getting our favorite Frenchman, Arnaud Giudicelli, riled up by telling him, “It should be called the Tour de Europe or the Tour de France/Switzerland/Belgium/etc." after learning the race enters those countries, too.

-- Walking to the Fax machine to send a stock sell order before being talked out of it by a co-worker, who made sense by saying we were heading into March and the best time of the year for the company. The price proceeded to free fall into oblivion.

-- Often asking Dave Fagan, “Buzz, how’d the Yankees do last night,” knowing full well the Yankees had won.

-- Team Tylenol

-- Softball

-- Bullshitting with, learning from, and informing the Newsroom folks. 

-- Ordering deep-dish pizza from Giordano's in Chicago and eating it with Dave Richard, Dave Salinas and Aaron Weisberg.

-- My all-time favorite Springsteen show memory with Joe Flynn, Mark Swanson and Scott Miller in Jacksonville. Made new friends; the entire day was an experience. You had to be there.

-- Talking to my Dad for the last time when he called to tell me he had bought me a blueberry iBook laptop. A week later he died.

-- Covering the 2003 & 2004 NLCS, including the Steve Bartman Game 6, and 2003 World Series with Scott Miller.

-- Playing in the CBSSports.com the golf scramble, mostly with Team Swanson and Craig Stanke, but one year with Charlie’s Angels (Kira Harrell, Margaret Chow and Kate Schafer).

-- Sept. 11, 2001 (9/11) and IM-ing a sarcastic comment concerning Mike Kahn’s column to ... Mike Kahn. The message had been intended for Mike Millet.

-- Teaming with Microsoft for MMOD. (I should have purchased "I survived Silverlight" T-shirts for me, Joe Flynn and Lou Thomas.)

-- Giving Corey Guerrero an “official F—k You” on a stressful opening Thursday of MMOD and the NCAA Tournament.