About Me | speedburner

Todd, with backyard dinkum tennis court in the background.

Jumping over the wife and yougner boy, older boy looks on.

Todd Robinson, aka 'Speedburner'

I'm a longtime diehard sports fan and athlete, first writing about sports in high school as a senior covering the football team in 1986. Fast forward to 2000 and it was the daily NBA Awards that got me back into writing. Originally just an email to my fantasy league covering the best and worst individual performances of the night, I eventually added commentary and dozens more people became cc'd on the Awards email.

In 2007 'Speedburner on Sports' was born as an occasional piece at the SportsCity website, alongside my 'Todd's Tennis Takes' column. I'd always envisioned the day when I had my own site, gathering all my sports passions together in one place - even the 'fringe' sports skateboarding and beach volleyball. Well, that day has come - welcome to 'Speedburner on Sports', one man's view of the wide sports landscape.

I live in Southern California with my wife and two boys doing freelance sports TV work as well as coaching my 8 yr old in tennis.

My Skate collection below,

left to right standing:

1981 Sims Mike Folmer (reissue, 2011) - Got original in 1982 for b-day...wish I still had it!!

-- Powell Peralta Allan 'Ollie' Gelfand Tank 1980 reissue (2007)

-- 1983-ish Caballero reissue (2009)

-- Ray Barbee 1989 authentic 24 yrs old - wheels 30+ yrs old (2007)

-- Powell Peralta Caballero 1989 authentic (2007).

-- Bottom Maroon Deck - 1984 Powell Peralta McGill...long history...it was my little bro's friends (Thank you, Dave Olsen), left at our house in early 90's...I adopted it after a visit when out of college in mid 90's...skated it for transportation up until 2007 (when I bought some of the others), so I spray-painted it and added my made up skate brand, 'Andromeda Skates'. Museum Piece.

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