About Mr. Irrelevant and the Mottrams
History
Mr. Irrelevant was born in 2004 as an NCAA Tournament blog named A Cinderella Story. Shortly thereafter it branched out to cover all sports under its current moniker. Since then it has shifted focus to D.C. sports and continued toiling in obscurity.
Check out Mr. Irrelevant’s “greatest hits”.
Editors
Jamie Mottram was born in 1977 and raised in Northern Virginia, where he was a high school baseball player. From there he went to James Madison University before working at Sandbox.com and then AOL, where he created FanHouse. He’s now Director of Blogging, Social & SEO at Yahoo! Media and lives in Wilmington, NC. Read more in the NY Observer and Wilmington Business Journal.
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Chris Mottram was born in 1982 and also raised in Northern Virginia, where he was a high school tennis player. From there he attended four institutions of higher learning before graduating from George Mason University, interning at AOL Sports and working at Sporting News, where he created The Sporting Blog. He is now Senior Editor at SB Nation and lives in Charlotte, NC.
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Contributors
Andy Peden and Brad Parker are Maryland sports correspondents. The former attended high school with Jamie and the latter worked at AOL with both brothers Mottram. Of interest: Brad’s wife is TV’s Julie Parker.
Jack Kogod (AKA Unsilent Majority) is the site’s Wizards correspondent. He is also a founding member of the Kissing Suzy Kolber collective.
Rob “Old Guys Leave” Abbott and Todd Davis are the site’s JMU sports correspondents. They have also spun off their own JMU sports blog, the imaginatively-titled JMU Sports Blog.