I missed my calling and didn’t get a chance to play second base in the majors. Crash Davis was right when he said, “You’ll never make it to the bigs with fungus on your shower shoes.”

Instead, I've spent the majority of my career describing athletes as colorful in the press.

 

What I Do

I help people and companies tell their best stories to the world. My expertise: I can do it better than AI.

Content Director / Writer / Editor / Video Producer / Podcast Host / Digital / Print / Books / Storytelling

Career Stops

  • Boston Herald / sports writer

  • New York Daily News / covered everything from high schools to the World Series

  • Sports Illustrated / reporter, writer, senior editor, co-founder of The MMQB with Peter King

  • Men’s Health / features director

  • SportTechie / editorial director

  • BreakAway Data / director of content & communications

  • The Messenger / senior editor, sports

  • 108 Performance (TN) / consultant

The Back of My Baseball Card Goes Like This…

big ideas + smallest details + provocative questions + relentless curiosity + problem solving + high-level communications

 
 

I love to explore deep complexities and distill them into elegant simplicity. I love to dig into what’s new, next and unknown.

 
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Work Highlights

  • Four Sports Illustrated stories received honorable mention in The Best American Sports Writing anthology.

  • Feature for Men’s Health on brain trauma in youth football received honorable mention in The Best American Sports Writing anthology.

  • Part of a four-person editorial team at SI that founded TheMMQB.com, which won the EPPY Award for Best Sports Blog with more than 1 million unique monthly visitors.

 

Select Stories

Gary Plummer Gets His Mind Right

A headbanging linebacker who played on the edge for 15 pro seasons and says he had more than 2,000 concussions, Gary Plummer felt his mind slipping away once he left the game. Fearful and desperate, he turned to alternative therapies—yoga, music, diet, even gardening—to counter the cognitive decline. The question for struggling former players: Is it possible to reverse dementia? Is there hope?

Crushed Davis: Nobody Is Struggling With the Modern Game More Than Chris Davis

Not long ago, Chris Davis was one of the game's most feared power hitters. Now, he just wants to have fun playing again.

From Farm to Field, and Every Point Between: How a Cow Becomes a Football

You've seen it snapped, thrown, kicked and spiked. But chances are you've never considered the origin story of an NFL ball—or how painstaking the process is to get every detail just right.

 

Teamwork

 

Life Goals

When I’m not working, you can probably find me coaching youth baseball.

In my next life I plan on coming back as a pro surfer. If I win the lottery, I'll spend the rest of this lifetime fishing around the globe.

Fishing and baseball?

I’m basically Ted Williams without the .344 lifetime average.