Greg Lalas

Obviously, Greg would rather be a glam-metal rock star touring the American Midwest than a slave to his keyboard. Unfortunately, fate is a cruel master. So instead of riding tour buses and groupies, Greg is a freelance writer and editor currenty based in Brooklyn, NY.

"The View from the Cheap Seats," Greg's weekly column about everything and nothing in the world of soccer, appears on MLSnet.com, the official website of Major League Soccer. When he's not regaling soccer fans about his crush on Keira Knightley, He has recently contributed articles to The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, NPR, Boston Magazine, Continental Airlines In-flight Magazine, among others. He also consulted to Boston Magazine and Insider Athens, an English-language lifestyle monthly in Athens, Greece, where he was killing time for a while.

Although Greg fancies himself an International Man of Leisure, he has a long rap sheet of entirely unrelated jobs, including: magazine editor, short-story writer, car-race organizer, high school English teacher, professional soccer player, bookstore slave, rock musician, brochure copywriter, catalog model, undergraduate lecturer on creative writing, indie label owner, and fulltime, all-the-time next-job-hunter.