Dustin Riese -
Dustin got his start in sports coverage as the sports reporter for a local newspaper in Wisconsin. He eventually branched out to become a freelancer and worked for several newspapers covering both high school and college sports. Riese attended the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh and has lived in his hometown of Little Chute most of his life.
Along with his ongoing high school reporting duties, Dustin accepted a part-time position covering the Cubs, Bears, and Bulls. Dustin also writes about the minor league system, where he writes daily recaps on all things down on the farm. A resident of Little Chute, Wisconsin, Riese and his wife (Kassidy) have two children, Kastin (11) and Brooklyn (7). In his spare time, he enjoys traveling with his family and coaching his son and daughter for travel Baseball and Softball.
Tony Crumpton -
Tony Crumpton is the co-founder and senior editor of CubsHQ.com, a leading independent Chicago sports website established in 2016. A graduate of Clemson University with a B.S. in Computer Information Systems, Tony has been a devoted Chicago Cubs fan since the late 1980s. His passion for sports journalism is evident through his extensive work with CubsHQ.com and his involvement with TigerNet.com, a prominent college sports website.
Ariana Pensy -
Ariana got her start in sports specifically football, well, since birth. She has always had the game in her blood. If she ever got in trouble growing up, it was referred
to as âpenalty on the play.â Pensy was the first student in the history of her high school to be on the varsity football coaching staff and was Media and Stats
Coordinator for the varsity football program at the state level in her home state. Her start in the newspaper business came in high school where she was a sports
reporter for her high school and local town newspapers.
Pensy has been a Staff Writer for TigerNet since she entered the Honors College at Clemson University in 2022. Sports Communication is one of her two majors,
as well as Athletic Leadership being one of her two minors. She is a diehard Chicago sports fan, who might actually bleed orange and blue were she to ever be
injured, and is a member of several fantasy football teams. She owns an extension collection of rare football cards and is a connoisseur of garlic bread.