Writers

Will Leitch is a contributing writer for Sports on Earth, and he also serves as a contributing editor for New York Magazine and a regular contributor to GQ, The Wall Street Journal and Sporting News. More»

Gwen Knapp is a senior columnist for Sports on Earth, based in San Francisco. The first time she covered a Major League Baseball game, it turned out to be a no-hitter (Terry Mulholland, 1990, Phillies over Giants). More»

Shaun Powell is a staff writer for Sports on Earth, covering the NBA and other sports. He brings more than 25 years of experience and has worked for a variety of newspaper, broadcast and digital outlets. More»

Tommy Tomlinson is a staff writer for Sports on Earth, focusing primarily on college football and stories from the South. Tomlinson spent 23 years as a reporter and columnist for the Charlotte Observer. More»

Mike Tanier is a staff writer for Sports on Earth, with a focus on the NFL. He joined Football Outsiders in 2005 and co-authored Pro Football Prospectus from 2005-08 and the Football Outsiders Almanac from 2009-12. His weekly "Walkthrough" column was an eclectic mix of jokes, statistical analysis, strategy diagrams, historical research and pop-culture references. More»

As a nomad all but stateless, staff writer Chuck Culpepper has resided in all three of the countries that begin with "United" -- United States, United Kingdom and United Arab Emirates -- as well as, for a big chunk of 2009, in Paris, still No. 1 on his top 25 of earthly cities. More»

Patrick Hruby is a writer for Sports on Earth. An adjunct professor at Georgetown University, he contributes to The Atlantic online and Washingtonian magazine, and previously he wrote for The Washington Times and ESPN.com. More»

Leigh Montville is contributing writer for Sports on Earth and the author of eight books, mostly biographies, on subjects that range from baseball greats Ted Williams and Babe Ruth, to NASCAR champion Dale Earnhardt, 7-foot-7 basketball player Manute Bol, motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel and the Mysterious Mantague, a forgotten golfer from the '30s. More»

Dave Kindred is a contributing writer for Sports on Earth. He is a winner of sports journalism's highest honor, the Red Smith Award, given by the Associated Press Sports Editors for lifetime achievement in the craft. He is a member of the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association Hall of Fame. More»

Matt Brown is producer/reporter for Sports on Earth, with a primary focus on college sports. Prior to joining the staff, he worked for a year as the research assistant to Joe Posnanski for "Paterno," a biography of the former Penn State coach that was released Aug. 21, 2012. More»

Emma Span is a writer and editor at Sports on Earth and the author of "90% of the Game Is Half Mental: And Other Tales From the Edge of Baseball Fandom." More»

Selena Roberts, an award-winning sportswriter and New York Times best-selling author, is the founder of Roopstigo Mobile Sports Network, an app for tablets and smartphones set to launch in October 2012. More»

Jack Dickey is a contributing writer for Sports on Earth and the editorial fellow at Deadspin, where he writes primarily about baseball, football and hockey. In his spare time, he studies English at Columbia University. More»

Jonathan Bernhardt is a contributing writer for Sports on Earth. His work has previously appeared in Baseball Prospectus, The Classical, and ESPN's SweetSpot Network. Born in central Maryland, Bernhardt currently lives in the New York metropolitan area and on Twitter, much of which still thinks of him as an angry, violent bird. More»

David Roth is a co-founder of and editor at The Classical. He writes the Mercy Rule column at Vice, co-writes the Daily Fix blog-column for the Wall Street Journal and writes for GQ, The Awl and other places when there's time. He's from New Jersey and lives in New York, and also sort of lives on Twitter. More»

Joe DeLessio is a senior producer at New York Magazine's website, nymag.com. He formerly served as nymag.com's sports editor, and has written for BuzzFeed and Fordham Magazine. Follow him on Twitter @joedelessio. More»

Howard Megdal is Writer At Large for Capital New York. He writes about baseball, basketball, and soccer for Sports on Earth, The Journal News, and numerous other publications. His books include "The Baseball Talmud," "Taking the Field" and "Wilpon's Folly." You can follow Howard on Twitter @HowardMegdal. More»