Writing Samples
Sports business, finance, and culture. NBA, NFL, MLB, and college sports. Plus two pieces from 2016 that started all of this.
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Sixth Street. Arctos. Thrive Capital. Three PE firms now own pieces of the SF Giants. As a lifelong fan who rode Caltrain to eight games in 2021 and watched Yastrzemski hit a grand slam to beat the D-backs, I have some questions about what they actually bought and whether the front office understands what the fanbase still has to give.
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Personal sports writing grounded in real financial analysis. Fan voice combined with PE knowledge. The free agency misses, the pattern, and what it means for the future.
MLB · Personal · BusinessThe 2026 World Cup will generate $11 billion. Host cities are expected to lose money. Gillette Stadium does not even have its name on it right now. The deal was signed years before anyone asked the hard questions.
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Ability to cover international sports business with the same financial lens applied to domestic leagues. Timely and contrarian without being reflexively negative.
Business · Soccer · TimelyThe Giants were up 18 to 3. The Cubs were cooked. Then someone checked their phone and word spread through the bleachers that the Bears board had voted to move to Indiana. First-person reporting from inside the moment.
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First-person sports reporting. Being in the right place and knowing what to do with it. The kind of piece that only gets written by someone who was actually there.
Reporting · Personal · BearsNBA
Curry's $400M Li-Ning deal, the Chinese NBA takeover, and how Nike showed up to the pitch meeting with the wrong name on the slides and lost the greatest shooter alive twice over thirteen years.
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Business reporting on a breaking story. Ability to explain a complex deal structure while keeping the human angle front and center.
NBA · Business · BreakingZoom. Cloudflare. Coinbase. Fifty-plus companies across nineteen NBA seasons. The Wiggins sideline moment in the 2022 Finals. Then a $200M venture fund. The sixth man had the longest view in the room.
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Ability to connect on-court analysis to off-court business story. Warriors fan perspective with genuine financial knowledge. The kind of piece that only gets written by someone who watched those teams closely.
NBA · Venture Capital · AnalysisSpringHill. Fenway Sports Group. Lobos 1707. LeBron built something that will still be making money fifty years after he retires. Most coverage still treats him like an athlete.
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Business analysis applied to the most covered athlete in sports. Accounting background used to reframe the story everyone thinks they know.
NBA · Business · LeBronNFL
The Bills stadium deal line by line. The relocation threat, the economic impact study, and why the politician who lets the team leave is remembered forever while the taxpayer who funded the building is forgotten immediately.
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Financial analysis of a complex public deal. Clear point of view without being a polemic. The kind of piece an editor at a sports business outlet reads twice.
NFL · Stadium · BusinessWritten hours after Super Bowl 50. On touchdown celebrations, the dab, and what it means to play with joy in a league that punishes it. Real-time writing on a story that was still happening.
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Fast reactive writing on a live news cycle. Cultural analysis under deadline pressure. Written at 18. The origin of this voice.
NFL · Archive · ReactiveMLB
When Ohtani signed his $700M deal most people looked at the number and moved on. The number was not the story. The structure was the story. And the structure was one of the most sophisticated financial arrangements in the history of professional sports.
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Accounting background applied to the biggest contract in sports history. Explains present value, luxury tax, and deferral structure in plain English without losing the reader.
MLB · Finance · ContractCurt Flood refused a trade, sued the league, lost in the Supreme Court, and never played meaningful baseball again. Every player making $30 million a year owes him something. Most have never heard his name.
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Long-form historical narrative. Labor and power through a sports lens. The kind of piece that shows range beyond game recaps and business analysis.
MLB · History · LaborCollege Sports
A hundred years of amateurism, NIL, and the legal cases slowly dismantling a system designed to keep money away from the people generating it. The coaches still make $9 million. The math has not changed as much as the headlines suggest.
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Long-form reported piece on a complex institutional story. Clear argument sustained over several thousand words without losing the thread.
College · Longform · Labor