The Staff

Here you can find who is a true member of The Broken Rim staff.

The Bio of T.J. Watson (Owner, Head Editor, and Head of Operations):Starting out blogging, I never really knew what I would be getting myself into.  But anyway, about me, the dude, the writer, the teen, the person that has literally zero idea what I am doing with my life at the young age of 17-years-old.

I started out blogging on the Bulls Connect page, a Bulls fan page at Bulls.com. This was the start to it all, little did I know at least. After making three blog posts, and now that I look back on them, they were terribly set up (didn't proof read anything, didn't have any flow to be honest, and in my eyes it sucked). Three blogs, that is all it took until now a close friend in the blogging world and on somewhat of a personal level, Darin Ford, somehow discovered me as he was needing writers for Horns to the Hardwood, a Bulls beat blog on the bloguin network in early June.

He contacted me, I signed onto the idea, and eventually got into the "business" of blogging, something I never thought possible considering I was like a baby hen just now realizing I was born basically, my feet weren't wet at all. Darin jump-started my blogging career, then I transferred over to King James Gospel (I don't really know the name of the site, considering it was a short stay of less than a day).

(During the whole duration of my time in the blogging world, I would still post onto Bulls Connect every now and then. I would also create three different blogspot pages before this one while having a job title under Darin at the various sites that I have worked for during my tenure on the basketball blogging scene.)

I then transferred over to Basketballathon on blogspot, all along with Darin running the ship, and began to write and post articles onto his blogspot site/network. After a short run there, I went over to the Sports Gab Network and began to post articles on their Slam Dunk Central website. I don't have much to say about them, as for the fact all of my work from the site is now gone, I have nothing to show, still upset about that, but it's business I guess.

I took about two or three month long hiatus after I slowly stopped posting onto SDC, and soon found myself away from social networking/blogging for good at the time. It was a much needed break, with having about 200 blogs posted since late May to December of 2012, it was time for a break.

I then took on a change to myself with creating "Hardwood Soul Magazine/Soul of Hoops." It was fun as I had 55 posts published from February of 2013 to May of the same year.  I would soon begin going back into hiding mode only to pump out an article or two every month or so for the next couple of months.  But after plenty of time spent away from writing nearly anything I have now ventured onward to this, "The Broken Rim."