Category — Clips

My item in this week’s Sports Illustrated on Peter Berg’s new cinéma-vérité series for HBO on Freddie Roach, the famed boxing trainer who also suffers from Parkinson’s disease. My full interview with Berg from Wednesday’s premiere at HBO headquarters ran on SI.com last week.

Here’s my write-up of Win Win for the Year in Sports Media package in this week’s SI.

Spent a few days in Manny Pacquiao’s camp in Hollywood last week ahead of Saturday’s welterweight title fight against Juan Manuel Marquez. I wrote a feature on what it’s like to spar with the champ for SI.com. Kobe stopped by. Spirits were high.

After Wednesday’s training, the whole entourage traveled with Manny for his Jimmy Kimmel Live! appearance. While killing time in the green room on the pool table, he set up and drained this trick shot on the first try (I swear).

My report for Sports Illustrated on the world’s top racing circuit bringing a Grand Prix to the banks of the Hudson River starting in 2013. (I also wrote off the announcement for SI.com.)

My review of Thursday’s Radiohead show at Roseland Ballroom for the Village Voice.

Came home to the Palestra today to write off the Battle for I-95 exhbition with LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony and Chris Paul for SI.com.

The two weeks of the U.S. Open always go by too quickly. This year I had a chance to write about the epic semifinal between Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer, Sloane Stephens’ first win at a major tournament, promising newcomer Jack Sock and flamboyant veteran Bethanie Mattek-Sands, but there are always so many more stories to tell. Maybe next year.

Djokovic just beat Rafael Nadal for the men’s title and the stairway near the entrance to Ashe Stadium (right outside the media center) is now a wall of Serbian pride.

Enjoyed spending time with Balaram Stack (@hair_piece), who is the first surfer from New York to have a chance to make the pro tour in more than 30 years. The Long Beach, N.Y., native, who turned 20 on Monday, was granted a wild-card entry into this week’s Quiksilver Pro New York, which is the first-ever ASP World Tour event in the Northeast United States. SI.com’s Collin Orcutt (@collin_orcutt) produced the video.

My obit of the Blue Horizon in this week’s Sports Illustrated.

I was enlisted to select SI.com’s 10 favorite Friday Night Lights moments on the occasion of tonight’s series finale. Also had a chance to interview actress Connie Britton (who plays Tami Taylor on the show) a few days ago.