Tom Vandyck grew up in Antwerp, Belgium, and lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He was once a rap star in his hometown, is a certified barbecue judge, and published the Dutch-language non-fiction book "Amerika zoals het is" (America As It Is) in 2011. Vandyck has two left feet, but at a young age, found out he's better at basketball than soccer. Despite a respectable vertical leap, he was a foot too short and two steps too slow to make his skill set count at any decent level of play. Before he became a corporate communications guru, he was a journalist covering, among other things, the NBA and Major League Soccer for the same Belgian progressive daily where his father was once the sports editor.
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