Happy newish year! I come to you with, as they say, some news. Today is my last day at Sports Illustrated. It’s been a hell of a ride. I know how to edit print magazines now and how to balance that work with editing on the internet. I also met a ton of wonderful people and wrote a lot of stuff I’m proud of. Here are a few of my favorite stories from the past four years:

• One of my many features on the nationwide attack on trans athletes
• A Lolo Jones profile
• Walking away from the NBA
• What we talk about when we talk about “mental toughness”
• Athletes and psychedelics
• From April 2020 (yikes): How the pandemic was affecting elite athletes’ mental health
• On perhaps my favorite subject, Nickelodeon

As for my next steps? I’ll be freelancing a lot as a writer, (copy) editor, and teacher.

Plus, I hope to have more about a new big project to share with you fairly soon.

Latest dispatch from the ’70s tennis beat

This week I returned to perennial favorite podcast You’re Wrong About, where Sarah Marshall and I broke down the Battle of the Sexes between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs. Give it a listen

In other news, we’re under the two-month mark for the Mind Game release. Get your preorders in and spread the word. Can’t wait!