Shotgun Spratling, Neighbor

Shotgun Spratling is an absolute sports nut. He enjoys watching almost every sport live or on television (even non-traditional American sports like soccer, hockey, and lacrosse). He was a 3-sport letterman in high school playing baseball, basketball, and football. In college, he was a 4-year letterman for Maryville College's baseball program concluding his collegiate career by inducing the ground ball that ended the 2007 Great South Athletic Conference and gave the Maryville Scots the GSAC championship.

He graduated in December '07 with a degree in English with Teacher's Licensure & Writing/Communications and is now working on his graduate journalism degree at the University of Southern California.

He has worked with the Princeton Devil Rays minor league baseball team, written sports for Neon Tommy, South LA Intersections, Forsyth News, Gainesville Times, Blount Today, Highland Echo, and the Maryville College web site. He has worked for Annenberg TV News and KSCR covering USC sporting events, for Trojan Vision's Platforum Sports and has been quoted on MLB.com.

He also spent the 2010 summer in Cape Town, South Africa covering sports for the Cape Community Papers during the first FIFA World Cup held on African soil.