Name: Kabeir Dilawri
Role: Writer
E-Mail: kabeir.dilawri@gmail.com
OnDeckCircle Debut: July 16, 2008
I intend to write: Weekly
School & Program: Queen’s School of Business, B.Comm Hons. 2008
Favorite Books: Freakonomics (Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner), Wikinomics (Don Tapscott & Anthony D.Williams), Blink (Malcolm Gladwell), Moneyball (Michael Lewis), Sex, Drugs & Cocoa Puffs (Chuck Klosterman), 100 bullshit jobs & Executricks (Stanley Bing)
Favorite Teams: Winnipeg Jets (always), Toronto Raptors, Toronto Maple Leafs, San Francisco 49ers, San Diego Chargers, Tennessee Titans, Anybody facing the Dream Team or US hockey team
Favorite Sports Movie: Any Given Sunday, Rookie of the Year, Jerry Maguire, Rudy
Favorite Athletes: Steve McNair, Eddie George, LaDanian Tomlinson, Doug Gilmour, Chris Bosh, Glen Rice, Kevin Garnett, Teemu Selanne, Gary Roberts
Claimed Expertise: Unbeatable in NHL 2004 (inventor of the Mike Danton rule) and NFL Blitz.
Favorite Topic: Sports marketing, the incompetency of the Toronto Maple Leafs front office, why/how the Jets should come back, fantasy sports.
Most Likely Non-Sports Topic: Seinfeld and the social lingo it created, globetrotting experiences
Favorite Quotes: “You’ll miss 100% of the shots you don’t take” – MJ

“Roll with the punches, tomorrow is another day” –Dickey Fox, Jerry Maguire

“Fortune favors the bold” – Virgil

“It’s not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me” – Batman

“It ain’t easy being white, it ain’t easy being brown…he’s my bro, not my brother” – Franklin Delano Bluth’s theme song courtesy of Hung Jury band in Arrested Development

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