Selected pieces from an arbitrary period between my departure from USA TODAY and a re-organization of my work portfolio:

BEST OF 2015

• Dec. 4, 2015: College football’s playoff format is broken. Here’s how to fix it (The Guardian)
• Dec. 1, 2015: US college sports are a factory for Olympic medalists – but for how much longer? (The Guardian)
• Nov. 7, 2015: Speed skating: can the US team shine after the failure of Sochi? (The Guardian)
• Oct. 29, 2015: Single-Digit Soccer: Time for parents to raise their voices (SportsMyriad)
• Oct. 28, 2015: Teddy Dure, 2001/02?-2015 (Mostly Modern Media)
• Oct. 15, 2015: A fully legal way to set up youth soccer leagues not strictly by birth year (SoccerWire)
• Sept. 24, 2015: Winning isn’t everything; it’s the only thing. Right?(The Guardian)
• Aug. 30, 2015: Why Serena Williams, not Ronda Rousey, is the world’s most dominant female athlete (The Guardian)
• Aug. 28, 2015: My hometown, my writing, my life (Mostly Modern Media)
• Aug. 27, 2015: U.S. Soccer’s birth-year plan is shortsighted, helping coaches, not kids (SoccerWire)
• Aug. 27, 2015: What’s THAT Supposed to Mean?: R.E.M., “What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?” (Popdose)
• Aug. 18, 2015: Alex Morgan and the Bedbugs That Ate the NWSL(SportsMyriad)
• Aug. 4, 2015: Is the UFC turning into Rollerball? (The Guardian)
• June 25, 2015: Can U.S. women ditch “Whack it to Wambach” style? (SoccerWire)
• May 21, 2015: Young players must learn to pass the dadgum ball(SoccerWire)
• April 30, 2015: Ann Hammond Dure: 1939-1995 (Mostly Modern Media)
• March 23, 2015: Paul Jeffrey, Duke jazzman (Mostly Modern Media)
• March 15, 2015: The value of a four-year college (Mostly Modern Media)
• March 12, 2015: USA soccer culture is and is not what you want(SportsMyriad)

BEST OF 2010-14

• Oct. 1, 2014: Why Millennials are avoiding small-town America(OZY; picked up at NPR)
• July 22, 2014: Remembering Dan Borislow (SportsMyriad; yes, he’s the guy you read about at Deadspin)
• May 21, 2014: Why we believe utter crap (Mostly Modern Media)
• Jan. 1, 2014: How Reality Bites and the dictionary screw up irony(Mostly Modern Media)
• (2013 was heavily focused on the book Enduring Spirit)
• Dec. 12, 2012: The year in moderately popular sports (Popdose)
• 2012 medal projections (SportsMyriad)
• July 3, 2011: Marta has her Diego Maradona moment (ESPN; Women’s World Cup coverage)
• June 2011 special section: Day jobs: Fighters’ balancing acts (USA TODAY)
• Jan. 27, 2011: For U.S. Soccer, it’s a matter of style (ESPN.com)
• Aug. 26, 2010: Leap from boxing to mixed martial arts not always pretty (USA TODAY)
• July 2, 2010: Brock Lesnar on return: ‘I’m a cat with 9 lives’ (USA TODAY)