Matt Levine

Nickname: Matt, L-Man

Favorite Sports: NBA, MLB, NFL, NHL, College Football and Basketball, World Cup Soccer

Favorite Sports Teams: Los Angeles Lakers, Los Angeles Dodgers, Cincinnati Bengals, Anaheim Ducks, and USC Trojans

Favorite Sports Announcers:FVin Scully the living legend, the late Chick Hearn, Mike Breen, Stu Lantz

Favorite Sports Moments: 1. Lamar Odom throwing the ball down the court and Kobe throwing his arms in the air to seal the game 7 win over the Celtics in the 2010 NBA finals, 2. Kobe’s Alley-Oop to Shaq in the 2000 Western Conference finals to seal the comeback against Portland, 3. Kemba Walker’s amazing run to lead UConn to the 2011 NCCA Men’s D-1 Championship, 4. The 2007 Giants ending the Patriots “perfect” season and so many more…

Biography: Matt Levine was born in Northridge, CA. He is very into sports, mainly professional sports but the college games still interest him very much so. Matt is a die-heart Laker, Dodger and Bengal fan. People always ask him why the Bengals, and it’s because in 2004 when Matt first started liking football, Los Angeles didn’t and still doesn’t have a team and his mom’s family is from Ohio so he picked the Bengals. His favorite players are Kobe Bryant, A.J. Green, Clayton Kershaw and Kemba Walker. Also Matt hates how the Clippers are being called “LA’s” team now. He says when they win 16 championships, have as many hall-of-famers and division titles then the comparison can be made and until then, it shouldn’t even be mentioned. One of Matt’s dreams is to see both the Dodgers and Bengals win at least one title at some point in his lifetime. He likes to write, especially about sports since that is his passion, he does this by analyzing both stats plus the non box score type efforts when looking at players and teams.  Matt has always had interest in writing and recently had an internship at the Malibu Times newspaper over the 2012 summer.