* Mike is the CEO and President of Fantasy Football Mastermind Inc.  He has 20 years fantasy experience including 15 fantasy championships in 9 different leagues and is a member of the Pro Football Writers of America. Most recently, he won the SI.com Experts League title for the 4TH CONSECUTIVE SEASON (2004, 2005, 2006 & 2007).  He finished Runner-Up in the FanEx Online league in 2007.  He finished Runner-Up in both the FFWebMasters 14-team Experts league and the FanEx Alpha league in 2006.  He won the FF Index Magazine Mock Draft Best Ball league by 15.5 games in 2005.  He and Chris Rito won the FanEx Overall Championship in 2004.  He's also won the the very tough 14-team FFWebMasters.com Experts Fantasy League (2003), a high stakes league title in the Fantasy Jungle (2003), the 1st annual Site Owners Fantasy Association (SOFA) Experts League (2000 & first runner-up in 2005) and the Showcase Re-Drafter Experts League (SRL-American - 1999). He led team FF Mastermind to league best records in SOFA and FFWebMasters.com Experts leagues in 2001. Mike has been a contributing author for many fantasy football magazines, including Fantasy Football Pro-Forecast, Power Ranking System Fantasy Football Report, and Fantasy Football Draftbook II as well as a periodic columnist for SI.com's Fantasy Central feature for five seasons. Mike's goal for FFMastermind.com Services has never wavered... to provide comprehensive fantasy football information via the Internet, while having fun in the process. Although he is married with no children, two dogs keep him quite busy at times. Look for his "First Thoughts" series of articles on the 2008 season to begin in May.

* John is a sports writer and sports talk radio host. He currently works for, among others, Viking Update – a website and monthly magazine devoted to the Minnesota Vikings. He is a beat writer who covers both the Vikings and the rest of the NFL for both the print and web publication. He also hosts a weekday sports talk show on 1390 The Fan Radio in St. Cloud, Minn. The show runs noon to 2 p.m. Central Time and can be accessed on-line at the 1390 The Fan website. He spent six years as staff writer for the St. Cloud (Minn.) Times, where he was both a sports and entertainment writer. He also does a weekly movie review radio show Mondays at 10:40 a.m. on WJON 1240-AM Radio. He has written one book “Minnesota Vikings Facts and Trivia” and was a contributing writer to two other books -–"War Stories From the Field” and “Hit and Tell: War Stories of the NFL’s Wildest Players” from Foghorn Press, San Francisco. John has written several magazine articles for regional and national magazines, including several in “SLAM” and “BLITZ” magazines out of New York and several college fan magazines under the FOX Sports banner. John is our NFL Tendencies Guru and also pens his weekly column “A Holler From the Cheap Seats” seen exclusively in the FFMastermind.com Weekly Newsletter, as well as regular off-season columns on free agency, the draft and contributes articles and analysis for our annual pre-season guide. John plays “officially” in just one fantasy league – which he routinely dominates because he never strays from his list of best available players and has gained a reputation for putting together blockbuster trades of his mid-round talent for one stud that annually makes him feared among his veteran leaguemates. He has won his championship four of the last six years (including 2007) and has led his league in scoring five years running.

* Tony has been playing fantasy football for 17 years and is currently commissioner of the Blood, Sweat, and Beers Fantasy Football League, which is about to go into its eleventh year. He has won three titles in two re-draft leagues since 2002, including two league championships in 2004. Tony also creates his own statistical projections prior to every season and will occasionally use some unconventional methods of choosing weekly starting lineups, such as incorporating NFL handicapping aspects. He is an electrical engineer by degree, but holds a sales position for an electronic components and systems manufacturer's rep firm in the Philadelphia area, where he is consistently ridiculed for being a New York Giants fan (even after they won the Super Bowl). Tony enjoys following the NFL off-season just as much as the regular season and playoffs, but still devotes plenty of time to his wife Jo, new baby James, and pet beagle Lily.

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* Mike and his wife Bonnie reside in the Chicago area. By day he is the Controller for a gourmet food distributor and the rest of the time he allocates between being a husband, father, grandfather and sports addict. With Mike, the football season never ends. He has been the league secretary/statistician for the Fox Valley Fantasy Football League for twenty-three seasons, experiencing the thrill of victory as well as the agony of defeat.  As a member of the new FFX Experts Re-Drafter League in 2007, Mike was the regular season points leader and lost in the playoffs, in a bid to be in the inaugural Fantasy Bowl, by three points. The 2008 season can’t start soon enough. Mike is the Defensive Specialist at FF Mastermind. As he points out, being a Bears fan for over 40 years has brought an appreciation to what happens on the "other" side of the ball. The Bears' offense over the years has more often than not been pretty offensive. Get lost in his fantasies with Mike as he provides a poignant look at fantasy football and those who play the game.