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Gilmore’s the Girl
I have the opportunity to meet many amazing people in the course of doing my job. And I take very seriously the fact that these people trust me with telling their stories. I like to joke that my Superpower is the ability to write one story and–presto!–pass their stories along to millions of readers.
I’ve never felt such a responsibility as I did a few weeks ago, when I met up with four-time world surfing champion Steph Gilmore while she was here in Los Angeles.
Photo: Timothy Devine
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Tagged ASP, coolangatta, ESPN The Magazine, Steph Gilmore, Surfing
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Alyssa Will Do It!
Remember Mikey, the kid from the Life cereal commercials who would try anything? Lately, I feel like that kid. Cannondale needs a writer to go on a morning ride with their team: “Alyssa will do it!” ASICS wants editors to test out their new gear by doing two celebrity workouts a day: “Alyssa will do it!” Reebok offers up British boxer Amir Khan for the day, with the caveat that the reporter will do a five-mile hill run and boxing workout with him: “Alyssa will do it!”
Amir and me, post-run, pre-very large breakfast.
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Tagged amir khan, boxing, ESPN, ESPN The Magazine, freddy roach, wildcard boxing
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Live! From New York … It’s ESPN The Magazine!
Last Wednesday, I had the opportunity to be part of what I think is one of the coolest things we’ve done at ESPN The Magazine. In conjunction with Pop-Up Magazine, we put on ESPN The Magazine the Live Issue at NYU’s Skirball Center for Performing Arts.
The ESPN Mag players and our EIC.
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Tagged ESPN, ESPN live issue, ESPN The Magazine, NYU, Pop-Up Magazine, Skirball
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Start Your Engines
Watch out, Danica!
Of all the reporting trips I’ve taken over the years, last week’s was, without a doubt, one of the best. As you already know if you read this blog, I have the opportunity to try my hand at a lot of very cool activities and new sports while reporting my stories, which take me all over the world. I get to walk a mile in the shoes/boots/flipflops of the athletes I’m writing about, so to speak. Last week, I laced up a pair of Oakley race boots and went to racing school. Actually, I went to two racing schools.
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Tagged BFGoodrich, DirtFish, ESPN The Magazine, rally racing, Shaun White, Skip Barber, Subaru
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Be A “Yes!” Man
Tuesday night, I posted a photo on Facebook. Within minutes, I started getting texts. “You’re there!? I was offered tickets, but I turned them down. I didn’t want to pay.” … “Wish I’d gone! My friend offered me tickets, but I have to get up early for work.” … “Our friend has a suite and offered us tickets, but we had dinner plans and decided not to go.”
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Tagged ESPN, ESPN The Magazine, lakers, NBA, ncaa, staples center, suns, triple overtime
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Bet On It!
Ladies, all the ladies ... where are you?
It’s always fun to discover a new subculture of sports, a world I know little about nestled within a world I often think I know too much about. When I find them, I love spending time in them, exploring them, researching their culture and learning their language … all in the name of job research. Last weekend, that happened in the most unlikely of places: Las Vegas.
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Tagged ESPN, ESPN The Magazine, march madness, ncaa tournament, sports betting, Vegas, wynn las vegas
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A Case For Seat Time
To drive or not to drive. Since I moved to California in October 2008, that’s been the question. After nine mostly car-less years in NYC, I tend to lean toward the latter. And since gas prices spiked to a week’s worth of groceries per gallon, I’ve been using my legs, and my bike, more and more. In two and a half car-filled years, I’ve only put 17,000 miles on my VW station wagon, and most of those came by way of weekend trips to San Fran, Mammoth, Vegas, San Diego or Lone Pine.
Whoops. Wrong Mammoth.
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Tagged ESPN, ESPN The Magazine, gas prices, mammoth, us snowboard grand prix
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Fans With Benefits
A few years ago, I started this blog because I wanted a place where I could share my experiences–the stories behind the stories, if you will. When I come home from a reporting trip, the questions my friends ask, the things they really want to know, are rarely answered in the 2,000 words that make it into The Magazine. So I try to answer them here. And hopefully provide a little behind-the-scenes access to the folks who are kind enough to read my posts. (Hi, mom!)
Hello 2009!! Cruisin’ Cuzzins … Berra Skates Wrigley … New Year’s, No Limits. No Kidding.
After nearly three weeks away from Los Angeles, my holiday sabbatical is over and I’m back on the west coast—but not for long. January’s a busy multi-sports month. Next Wednesday, I head to Miami for the BCS title game. (My co-workers have informed me that, along with no cheering in the press box, there is a new Alyssa Rule that includes a ban on handsprings and orange-and-blue socks.) Then it’s off to Park City for snowboarding and the Sundance film festival. And finally, the month wraps up in Aspen for the Winter X Games. February had better start working out. It’s going to have a tough time following the first month of 2009.
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Tagged Berra, ESPN, ESPN The Magazine, motocross, New Year No Limits, NHL, Outdoor Game, Rhys Millen, Robbie Maddison, Roenigk, Wrigley
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Guest Blog: Lindsay Laces Up at Wrigley
Dear Alyssa’s Blog:
I skated at Wrigley today!
If you have no idea what I’m talking about, the NHL is having its third Winter Classic on New Year’s Day. It’s an outdoor hockey game, this year between the Chicago Blackhawks and Detroit Red Wings at Wrigley Field. E.J. Hradek – my fellow ESPN Mag hockey scribe – and I arrived in the Windy City this morning, checked in to our respective hotels and took the Red Line out to Addison Street. We ducked into Gate K, took the first tunnel up to take a look and, well, wow. They’ve parked a sheet of ice right on top of Ernie Banks’ office, stretched across the middle infield with Wrigley’s ivy-covered walls and big green scoreboard in the background. The NHL has even covered the outside dasher boards with aesthetically pleasing faux-Wrigley brick.
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Tagged Berra, ESPN, ESPN The Magazine, NHL, Outdoor Classic, Wrigley
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