Redlights and Redeyes

Unfortunately for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, this season is looking a lot like Detroit’s last year. Fortunately for me, New York teams always find their way down here, which gives me the opportunity to scoop up some New York Times work.  They also happen to wear blue and that color coming into the red-saturated stadium [...]

Sol Neelman somehow convinced TIME magazine that his weird sports fascination was actually publishable.  Check it out! Just kidding, Sol, you are the man.  Amazing work!

Saturday was a sad day.  Grey skies never parted and the rain never ceased. I was sent to cover the final memorial and funeral for Jazmine Thompson – the Bayshore High School cheerleader who was shot and killed last Friday night while riding with friends in a car after her school’s football game.  A lot [...]

I’ve spent the week alternating football games with events surrounding the death of Jazmine Thompson – the cheerleader from Bayshore High School who was shot and killed while riding with friends in a car last Friday night.  These are from a small memorial that was held at the school, which the Varsity cheerleaders presented the [...]

A high school cheerleader was shot and killed last night after a football game in Bradenton.  Bayshore High School student Jazmine Thompson was riding in the backseat of a car with a group of girlfriends on their way to a friend’s house.  The details are still coming out, but police say that they were approached [...]

I always find it ironic that I get all excited when the Travel editor calls from The New York Times and asks if I’m available.  I always say “of course,” hope for some far off land, and then I get the punchline: “We’re doing a story on Siesta Key.”  It’s great, don’t get me wrong, [...]