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Jason Blasco

Jason Blasco currently is a freelance writer with Beckett Football and Beckett Baseball magazine. Blasco has also covered minor league baseball for CBS Sportsline/AOL Seattle Safeco Sentinel, doing features and regular statistical updates on the M’s minor league organization.

Blasco has previously worked for Topprospectalert.com as a features writer from 1999 to 2001. Blasco did player interviews with St. Louis Cardinals player Albert Pujols, Oakland Athletics Mark Ellis, as well as many other prospects. Two of Blasco’s features were published in the Kane County Chronicle (Ill.) and the Asheville Citizen Times (Asheville, N.C.).

Blasco served as a full time intern with the Lincoln Courier in Lincoln Illinois. Blasco worked as a general assignment reporter covering the police beat, features, and news. Blasco also completed a newspaper internship with the Pekin Daily Times, where he covered the devastating F-3 tornado that hit South Pekin. He wrote features, sports stories, some police reporting, and covered Pekin’s Marigold Festival.

Blasco interned as a general assignment reporter with the Sullivan News Progress and at the Peoria Times Observer. In addition, Blasco also worked on the sports desk as a part time reporter with the Peoria Journal Star. Blasco was sports editor for the Illinois Central College Student newspaper.

As the ICC Harbinger’s sports editor, he covered volleyball, men and women’s basketball, softball, baseball, golf, men and women’s soccer, and the college’s cross country teams. Blasco covered two volleyball NJCAA Division One national tournaments and one women’s NJCAA Division Two national tournament. As sports editor, he was the recipient of an Illinois Community College Journalism Association first place award.

Blasco worked for the Daily Eastern News student newspaper as a sports reporter. At Eastern, he was the recipient of the Eastern Illinois Universities’ Talented Student scholarship. Blasco also worked on a newsletter for the Next Generation Wrestling Federation, covering professional wrestling.

Blasco, grew up in Peoria, Ill., and is a Woodruff High School graduate. He attended Illinois Central College before attending Eastern Illinois University, majoring in journalism. Blasco is currently looking for a full time job as a sports reporter and has a goal to be regarded as one of the best sports reporters in the business.

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