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Professional Experience

Independent Journalist, April 2008-Present

-- Wrote features and deadline game stories on Major League Baseball, the NBA, NHL and college football and basketball for clients that include USA TODAY, the Philadelphia Inquirer, ESPN.com, FoxSports.com, the New York Times, the Boston Globe and the St. Paul Pioneer Press.
-- Covered 2008 National League playoffs for the Philadelphia Inquirer.
-- Columnist for the Basketball Times.
-- Wrote Travel stories on California ballparks, California towns of San Clemente and Claremont and a consumer guide to carry-on luggage for the San Diego Union-Tribune.
-- Published as a photographer in San Diego Union-Tribune Travel section.

Los Angeles Times, 1986-2008
 

-- Wrote 23 A-1 stories as a staff writer in Sports.
-- College basketball columnist and reporter covered 11 Final Fours.
-- Covered Atlanta and Sydney Olympics, including beat coverage of men’s and women’s basketball in Sydney.
-- Lead reporter for Super Bowl XXXV as Times NFL columnist during 2000-01 season.
-- Covered Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, and Belmont Stakes, including reporting from East Coast veterinary hospital after Barbaro was injured.
-- First to report during NHL labor dispute that professional hockey players were receiving unemployment compensation in California.
-- Broke story that Ron Wilson would be hired as the first coach in the history of the Anaheim NHL team then known as the Mighty Ducks.

Other Professional Experience

Los Angeles Times Washington Bureau Intern, 1986
Washington Post Intern, 1985
Orlando Sentinel Intern, 1984
Camden (S.C.) Chronicle-Independent Intern, 1983