This is the BASH, a Bay Area sports website! Your blogger/editor-in-chief, Luke J. Straub, is a content writer in San Francisco who grew up reading the sports page.

Luke covered the Raiders at USA Today’s Raiders Wire for seven-plus seasons, and he’s the former associate editor at NorthBay biz magazine in Santa Rosa, Calif. Additionally, he’s appeared within the (web) pages of USA Today, Yahoo! Sports, MSN, USA Today’s Warriors Wire, The Raider Ramble, and more.

A Bay Area native, he’s a past contributor at his hometown newspaper, the Petaluma Argus-Courier. His journalism career began in 2017 after a successful 10-year run as an artisan bread baker at Della Fattoria, a world-renowned bakery, and Cavallo Point lodge in Sausalito, Calif, where Luke helped the kitchen earn a Michelin star.