Staff

Marni McNiff

Editor-in-Chief
Hey Everyone! I’m Marni, GenXXL’s Editor-in-Chief. I’ve been in the fitness industry for 20+ years as a personal trainer, and group fitness instructor. I teach everything from step, to body sculpting, to Pilates. I’ve also been an editor for the past 15+ years, and I’m a mom of three beautiful children who keep life interesting (and sometimes crazy)!

I’m a huge hockey fan–LET’S GO RANGERS–and I do believe I’m the lone New York Yankees fan on staff. I’m trying to bring the rest of them to the dark side!

I am also now officially following the Lakers, as a promise to General Patton!

My job here is simple…to create the most informative, educational, and newsworthy bodybuilding, sports, and health site on the Web.

General Patton

Editor-At-Large, Featured Stories
Ten hut! This is The General–not military–from down here in Atlanta, GA. I’m a professional musician, teacher, conductor and performer–plus, I do a little writing. Out here we’ve got the Hawks, Falcons, and Braves. For me that’s come to mean “Nope, nope, and bad breakup”.

I became a Lakers fan in ’83 watching them lose The Finals to Philly. Really I was a Magic fan, but the Lakers are were my team. ’83 also brought me to the 49ers and Joe Montana when they lost the NFC Title Game to the Redskins. Oh, and I dumped the Braves at the end of 2009–I don’t think they took it too well.

I still think Magic is better than Jordan, the Braves should’ve won the ’91 World Series, and the NBA lottery is fixed. What can I say, I can’t help myself?!

I’ve spent many an hour watching sports with my Dad and learning to get opinionated about it. I learned what “well done” looks like and came to appreciate it. However, if I sound like an old man sometimes it’s because I learned from an old man :)

My opinions at Genxxl.com are pretty intense, but I can’t do it any other way–my Dad doesn’t watch the Falcons to this day because they get him too fired up–now you see where I get it from. Join me Mondays, Tuesdays, and Fridays if you’re looking for intense opinions on Football, Baseball, and Basketball and a new “angle” on your sports world.

Heather Hunnicut

Editor-At-Large, Breaking Stories
A big ol’ “Hi y’all” from the Peach State. I’m Heather Hunnicutt, an Ohio transplant who moved to the South for love and warm winters. I write on health and fitness as well as Strongman competitions here at GenXXL.com. When my high school sports career ended, I assumed the position of professional couch potato. For ten years, I proudly sprouted eyes and got wrinkly, as potatoes do.

After my third young’un came, I decided to get back to the gym. Anything to get away from the kids for a while, that was my motto. In the process I fell in love with exercise again. I lost 90 pounds, figured out I could find my six-pack somewhere other than the local package store, and started impressing guys with my biceps. Don’t tell the General that, though, as the hubs might get the tiniest bit jealous.

I love seeing people’s lives changed through exercise and sound nutrition. Although I want to hear what you think, there are two rules: Don’t talk smack about the Cincinnati Reds, and don’t tell me you eat Twinkies. Both of those will have me on your butt like brown on rice. You can tell me I’m brilliant, or you can say I’m a crackpot, so long as you’re keeping it real and walking your talk. That means you, Ding-Dongs!

Tony Tucker

Podcast Anchor and Featured Correspondent
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I am a staff writer at GenXXL.com covering baseball, basketball, and football, primarily. My mother thought I would be a field goal kicker or tap dancer before I was even born, but flat feet and a weight problem pretty much took care of those dreams. Instead I’m a guinea pig for the new podcast GenXXL will be publishing every week, and I also cover sports at BleacherReport.com.

I have been watching and playing sports since I was 4 – from hockey to tennis and everything in between. The only thing more entertaining than watching Brett Favre play is Rosario Dawson mud wrestling. I like to think of myself and my writing to be unique and fun, but that could just be the massive head trauma I suffered on the football field talking. Which of course means if I say your favorite team sucks you can blame it on the many repetitious blows I’ve taken to the head.

I have received four achievement awards for my work on BleacherReport.com. I was awarded a bronze medal for what the site calls a Hot Read, over 1,400 reads, on a NFL awards prediction article.

The two I am most proud of generated comments, mostly hatred hurled at me, likely due to those knocks in the head. One was a bronze medal for a piece on Allen Iverson and the other was a silver medal done about Bill Belichick. I either hit a nerve or people decided to take out their sexual frustrations on me.

My goal will always be to make you feel something; happy, sad, or angry and if you don’t, that could be a sign that your mother breast fed you whisky.