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 / Editorial Director / Writer / Editor / Videos / Podcasts / Digital / Print / Storytelling That Moves the Needle
Main 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
I’ve Also Worked With
Red Bull
Patagonia
Backbridge
Leorêver
Onda Blue Acupuncture
The Boston Globe
Car and Driver
Varsity Magazine
Best Body magazine
Men’s Exercise magazine
Natural Bodybuilding & Fitness
ESPN
The Back of My Baseball Card Goes Like This…
big ideas + smallest details + provocative questions + relentless curiosity + problem solving + high-level communications + collaborative teamwork
I love to explore deep complexities and distill them into elegant simplicity. I love to dig into what’s new, next and unknown.
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
Dybantsa announced his college decision on ESPN’s First Take last December and sent shockwaves throughout the basketball world. One sports journalist who regularly covers the university reacted to the moment on social media by writing, “BYU just won the lottery.”
N.C. State wideout Thayer Thomas turned his once scrawny body into Sunday-ready with a data-driven training approach that he traces all the way back to (checks notes) the fifth grade. It’s the future, he says, for the next generation of athletes.
Gary Plummer Gets His Mind Right
A headbanging linebacker who played on the edge for 15 pro seasons, 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 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’ll find me coaching 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.
