Dr. Rumm has been a Spurs fan for over 25 years and is a veteran sportswriter, formerly writing for hoopsworld.com (now closed) and is also a basketball referee and member of Board 12 of IAABO (International Association of Approved Basketball Officials) in the Washington, DC area. He has also been a sports medicine physician (including at Cole High School when he was in the Army in San Antonio.) Professionally he is a director of several environmental health programs at the Department of Veterans Affairs in DC and is board-certified in preventive medicine, and also trained in pediatrics. He has over fifty published professional publications and two book chapters and has served in a variety of senor level medical and administrative positions. He lives in Rockville, MD.