Trinity Rodman and Reilyn Turner have become sports celebrities and are the faces of competing global brands – Rodman for Adidas, Turner for Nike. Their story is of divergent paths and of risky choices that ended up paying off.
Do-Hyoung Park pursued a degree in chemical engineering at Stanford. Set to graduate in 2016 at the age of 19, sports journalism did not appear in Park’s plans but halfway through his freshman year, he tagged along to a Stanford Daily event. Within weeks, Park had joined The Daily’s writing staff.
With no formal training, Ansgar Grunseid is currently ranked by the California Beach Volleyball Association as 49th in the state and is one of the best players in Northern California.
Not only does Joon Lee feel strongly about continuing to fight for representation in the field of journalism but has expressed his desire to begin to tell more diverse stories among the Asian sports community.
Ken Rosenthal is one of the faces of baseball reporting, writing for The Athletic and broadcasting at Fox Sports from the dugout. His experience goes back decades, and his connections with players, agents, coaches and front office members have earned him the title of “baseball insider.”
Collegiate hockey referees must finance their own equipment and provide their own transportation. They can spend more than two hours driving to a distant ice rink on a Friday night.
David Lombardi epitomizes what it means to be a modern journalist. His Twitter, with nearly 60,000 followers, is brimming with updates and commentary.
Hal McCoy, a sports writer with the Dayton Daily News, reflects on his immense journalism career, 49 years of which he spent writing about baseball. He laments the current state of print journalism.
Coyote hunting has been a part of society in the American West for decades, becoming a pastime in a region where the closest professional or college sports teams are a day’s journey away. Though state lawmakers protect these competitions, events are clouded in secrecy to avoid conflict with wildlife rights activists who hope to put an end to the bloodshed.
The region is brimming with elite women’s basketball. Cal reached the Final Four in 2013 and Stanford won its third national championship in 2021.
Jack Todd became a sports columnist for the Montreal Gazette in the 1990s. Today, he works freelance but still writes with all the verve and critical assessment as he did when he was a full-time sports columnist.
Freshman Jake Beber-Frankel says he’s inspired by his grandfather, New York Times’ Pulitzer Prize-winning editor Max Frankel.
