About

My name is Andy Hutchins, and I’m a rising sophomore at University of Florida. I’m currently a journalism major, but may add English to that in the future or change the major to telecommunications.

Rockabye is an alias I use in honor of Reggie Nelson, former Gator safety and hellraiser, who I gave the nickname “Rockabye.” I stubbornly refuse to call him “The Eraser,” because I didn’t think of it, no matter how cool, and will continue to trumpet my lesser-known creation until Nelson is the best safety in the NFL, which is going to happen, as soon as he shuts his yap and focuses on lighting people up and scaring the piss out of them.

The Arena is what I’m calling a “sports and culture” blog, and it began in earnest in November 2007.

I also write a daily hip-hop post and some pop culture musings for DeadOn, and, once upon a time, wrote daily music posts and reviews on my own blog, Back Back Then Then. The former is a commitment; the latter may end up being something totally different.

The Arena has been linked to from Deadspin, The Big Lead, Every Day Should Be Saturday, TrueHoop, Awful Announcing, and ESPN’s Jason Sobel, and can be found through my commenter profile (Rock You Like An Iracane) on Deadspin; any tips should be sent to ahutchins@ufl.edu.

Thanks for visiting.