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= Dalton Tinklenberg (Journalist) =

Early Life
Dalton Tinklenberg was born in Kokomo, Indiana to Kelly Steward and Earl Sickbert. He was taken in by his grandparents shortly thereafter and raised as their own. He attended Taylor Community Schools and graduated as senior class president in 2013. After several years in the cell phone industry, Dalton decided to pursue his dream of sports journalism.

Journalism
In July of 2015, Dalton created an online account at a sports blogging website. After several months of writing as a freelancer he was contacted by ProFootball Spot, where he started his first formal writing gig. Shortly after he was chosen to start a weekly podcast for the site with two fellow writers. As the podcast grew larger it became clear it should be its' own entity. In October of 2016, Blue HQ Media was founded by Tinklenberg. Since that date the website has grown to cover over eight states with a team of over 30 writers.