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Ross Priest

E-mail
: rpriest@bakersfield.com

Nickname
: rpriest

Tagline
: I don’t do confessions, but I will read your last rites

Sports to play
: Baseball, softball, golf, horseshoes,

Sports teams
: Indianapolis Colts, Cincinnati Reds, Indiana Pacers and any mid-major college playing a Pac-10 or SEC team.

Outdoor activities
: Spending time with my wife and son at the park. Playing softball. Sitting on the beach.

Foods
: Buffalo wings, pizza, Oofta tacos, Aebleskiver (Danish cakes)

Candy bar
: 100 Grand and 3 Muskateer

Films
: Full Metal Jacket, Tombstone, Jarhead, 40-year-old Virgin, Old School and I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry

TV shows
: Sportscenter, The Daily Show, Colbert Report, How I Met Your Mother

Hobbies
: Changing diapers and yard work

What makes you an expert
: 2003 Beat the Sports Guys champion. That was beat the experts style-contest at The Sun (Yuma, Ariz.). It was all NFL picks. Also runner-up among 8 sportswriters in the Gaston Gazette (Gastonia, N.C.) picks in 2006. So I can guess with the best of them.

Biography
: Married to my beautiful wife Karen for more than two years, have a young son Landon, and we moved here from North Carolina in December of 2006. A native Hoosier, so I've been a Colts fan since 1984. I don't think they'll repeat but they'll make the playoffs again.