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"If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it."

                                                          -Toni Morrison

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​In love with sports since childhood, an impulse to write about the games, players, and contributors stuck with me over the years. The urge remained dormant. 

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But curiosity about those with critical but less recognized roles caught up with me. I heeded Ms. Morrison's advice. 

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Among those who pique my interest are referees and their crews who keep order on the football field. Unable to find a book offering a third-person account of the NFL's officiating world, I took a step off the day-to-day treadmill to explore the lives of NFL game officials on and off the field. I wrote The Third Team.

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Next up came the intricacies of the offensive line and the unsefish men who comprise it. Collaborating with renowned NFL line coach Howard Mudd, I sat with 20 past and present NFL offensive linemen to explore their careers and write their oral histories. 

Together, we created The View From the O-Line: Football According to NFL Offensive Linemen. Weaving the players' stories through Mudd's timeline, the result is a book that examines the most essential yet underappreciated players on the field. The stories intertwined with Mudd's career arc provide a composite look at the truest team players in the quintessential team sport.

In 2021, I revisited football's arbiters in A Tough Job Made Harder: Football Officials in an Unforgiving World. Calling on some of the most prominent voices in football officiating, the book looks into how changes in the game and its demands have intensified challenges to officials as well as how the new demands are being met. 

 

I am looking forward to immersing in other works that examine the sports enterprise and the people who give it life.