About Eyal Goldshmid (Designer)

Eyal Goldshmid has been writing professionally for print and web for more than 10 years and currently pens weekly technology columns for the South Florida Sun-Sentinel and the Scripps Treasure Coast Newspapers. In addition, he has written on a variety of subjects (from sports to dining to tourism to movies, among others) for numerous websites, including Citysearch.com (where he covered the Orlando Magic beat) and TheSlant.com, and he has helped design, develop and manage content for media websites like TCPalm.com and OrlandoSentinel.com. He also has several years of public relations and marketing writing experience -- most recently the International FOP Association’s worldwide “FOP GENE DISCOVERED” campaign. (If you're interested in having him design a blog for you, please contact him through Jeff Louderback, owner of Soxandpinstripes.com.)

Eyal grew up in the Boston suburbs in the 1980s and has felt tied to Boston sports since childhood. As a result, his most vivid childhood memories tend to involve the highs and lows of Boston sports at the time. When he closes his eyes, he often revisits the two Celtics championships, as well as the Bears' humiliation of the Patriots' in Super Bowl XX, the depressing Celtics loss to the Lakers later that year and the horrific World Series that followed. (On the latter: He remembers hearing, through his open bedroom window, the entire neighborhood gasp collectively in disbelief after Buckner's error; he also recalls hearing a neighbor drop a television out the window when the game ended.) He idolized Larry Bird and Dwight Evans as a boy and remembers clearly the moment when Evans hit a home run on the first pitch of the 1986 season -- the earliest home run ever. He even tried to emulate Evans' batting stance in Little League, but that did little to improve his batting average (sadly).