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'''Len Pasquarelli''' is an [[United States|American]] sportswriter and analyst with [[ESPN.com]] and a 25-year veteran of covering the [[National Football League|NFL]]. He joined ESPN.com in 2001 and has since become a frequent contributor to the other [[ESPN]] outlets, including ''[[SportsCenter]]'', [[ESPNEWS]], [[ESPN Radio]] and ''[[ESPN The Magazine]]''. His articles reflect his opinions on various football topics.
'''Hilbrand Pier Anne Nawijn''' (born [[8 August]] [[1948]], [[Kampen]]) is a [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[politician]], former [[Tweede Kamer|Member of the Dutch Parliament]], and until [[June 22]], [[2005]], a member of [[Lijst Pim Fortuyn]].
 
Pasquarelli has come under increasing criticism in recent years, by critics who say he relies too heavily on his relationships with player agents -- praising players represented by agents who feed him information, and criticizing players whose agents do not.
After graduating Emelwerda College in [[Emmeloord]] Nawijn studied law at the [[Rijksuniversiteit Groningen]]. After a long career working for the [[Dutch Ministry of Justice]] he was elected in [[2002]] as a member of the [[Christen-Democratisch Appèl]] for the [[city council]] of [[Zoetermeer]]. Nawijn was an early supporter of the Dutch politician [[Pim Fortuyn]] and in 2002 when Fortuyn founded the Lijst Pim Fortuyn Nawijn earned a place on the list. Despite the [[assassination]] of Fortuyn days before the election the LPF emerged with a successful result thus bringing Nawijn into the Dutch [[Tweede Kamer|Lower House]]. He was appointed Minister for Integration and Immigration in the [[first Balkenende cabinet]].
 
Prior to ESPN, Pasquarelli served as a senior writer for CBS SportsLine.com, which he joined in 1999. He has also covered the NFL for the [[Atlanta Journal-Constitution]] from 1989 to 1999, the [[Fort Wayne News-Sentinel]] from 1985 to 1989, [[Pro Football Weekly]] from 1982 to 1985, and [[Pittsburgh Steelers Weekly]] from 1978 to 1982.
Due to the instability of the LPF following Fortuyn's assassination the first Balkenende cabinet lasted a short time leading to early elections in 2003. Due to Nawijn's controversial [[Conservatism|conservative]] positions such as his support of the [[death penalty]], he was placed at the bottom of the LPF's electoral list. This should have made it almost impossible for Nawijn to be reelected, however, the same statements which made him so unpopular to the political establishment won him a following among voters. Thus on election day Nawijn received enough individual votes to once again enter the Tweede Kamer.
 
Pasquarelli is a past president of the [[Pro Football Writers of America]] and has twice won national awards as the NFL Beat Reporter of the Year. He also has won several writing awards, including a first place [[Associated Press]] Deadline Sports Reporting Award in 1988.
Despite still being a member of the LPF, Nawijn often butted heads within the party. In January of 2005 he left the totally fragmented LPF with the eventual goal of founding his own political party. He also maintains good relations with the increasingly powerful [[Flanders|Flemish]] party [[Vlaams Belang]].[http://www.vlaamsbelangvlaamsparlement.org/index.php?p=persmededelingen&id=197]. [[Gerard van As]], a LPF party leader, left the LPF and joined Nawijn's faction, on August 16, 2006.[http://www.bnr.nl/ShowANPNieuwsArtikel.asp?Context=N%7C2%2C0%7CS%7C29de57467c3b8aca&id=58092]
Together with van As, Nawijn entered in the [[Dutch general election, 2006|2006 Dutch elections]] with the party [[Party for the Netherlands|Partij voor Nederland]] (''Party for the Netherlands'') but obtained no seats.
 
Pasquarelli is a [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania|Pittsburgh]] native, attended Central Catholic High School, and graduated from the [[University of Pittsburgh]] in 1972. He currently resides in [[Atlanta]], GA and is a great friend of Herman Donatelli, DMD.
==External links==
* http://www.hilbrand-nawijn.nl
 
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*[http://sports.espn.go.com/keyword/search?searchString=Len_Pasquarelli&rT=sports/ Pasquarelli’s recent sports columns from ESPN.com]
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