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Super Sunday
Three times in seven years. That’s the frequency with which my favorite team has made it to the Super Bowl since I started working for ESPN. The first year, 2006, I went to the game and blogged about my experience for ESPN.com. The Steelers beat the Seahawks and I had a weekend I will never…
Read MoreOut With It, Already!
This morning, longtime sportswriter Steve Buckley of the Boston Herald wrote a moving column he called his Coming Out Party. In it, he reveals to his readers that he is gay. I don’t know Steve, but he is a good friend of one of my best friends and many of my colleagues. He told them…
Read MoreNext Year, Let the Cow Jump Over the Moon
I’ve spent the past few New Year’s Eves watching guys jump over stuff and writing about it. To put it simply. It started with FMXer Robbie Maddison long-jumping his dirt bike and, the next year, jumping it onto a replica of the Arch de Triumph in Vegas. Also in Vegas, rally driver Rhys Millen backflipped…
Read MoreA New Weekly Column
Once again, I am writing a weekly action sports column for ESPN.com. Each week, I’ll pick one topic/person/event/newsmaker to profile on ESPN.com/action. For my first piece, I talked to Travis Pastrana and Michael Waltrip about their new partnership and Pastrana’s foray into NASCAR. You can check that piece out HERE. I spent Saturday, Dec. 4,…
Read MoreSomeone’s Gotta Do It
When people ask me why I choose to cover action sports, I should simply show them photos from my most recent reporting trip. (And then ask them to recall the football games taking place the same day. Minnesota roof collapse, anyone?) Each November/December, the ASP World Surfing Tour heads to the North Shore of Oahu…
Read MoreWe Wear Helmets on Vacation
Over the Thanksgiving holiday, I had the pleasure of introducing many (many, many, many! — as my friends keep pointing out after seeing my vacation photos on Facebook) members of my family to one of my favorite places on earth, Costa Rica. I started traveling to CR almost 10 years ago and have been back…
Read MoreThe Movie Issue
If you haven’t seen it yet, our Movie Issue is out, and in it is my story on the transformation of big-mountain snowboarder Jeremy Jones. You might remember my post about the three-day reporting/backpacking/split-boarding trip I took with Jones and Co. into the Sierra over Memorial Day weekend. If not, you can refresh your memory…
Read MoreSecond-Stringers and Staches …
After more than a year in the making, my story on backup QBs, as exemplified by Todd Collins of the Chicago Bears (among other teams), is finally out. It was one of my favorite stories to report and I left the experience with a new respect for what is required of the position–-easily the most…
Read MoreOn The Run
Until last weekend, I didn’t think I would ever be a runner. In high school, I was a sprinter. Trust me. There’s a great distinction between the two. Sprinters run 100 or 200 meters very fast. They run to feel the oxygen sucked out of their lungs and fire fill their quads. They don’t enjoy…
Read MoreI Want A Dirt Bike!
That’s all I could think about on my two-hour drive home yesterday from Pala Raceway. “I want a bike of my own!” I spend so much time around dirt bikes and the athletes who ride them, but I rarely have the opportunity to hop on and ride one myself. And they are so much fun!…
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