What I Cover

I cover the world of sports, with a focus on holding its ecosystem of powerful people and institutions to account.

My Background

I have been a reporter on ProPublica’s national desk since May 2025 and primarily cover sports. Previously, I was an investigative sports reporter at The Washington Post, where stories I wrote revealed sexual assault allegations in baseball and the system that conceals them, death and mayhem at horse tracks, how the NFL sold a failing diversity policy to corporate America, and the hidden circumstances behind an MLB pitcher’s overdose death.

I got my start as an alt-weekly reporter for the Cleveland Scene and Miami New Times, where my work included exposing the raucous shortcomings of a billion-dollar Florida voucher school program. At Newsday, our series on hidden police misconduct was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. At the Los Angeles Times, colleagues and I exposed police and firefighters who were collecting salaries and pensions while out on disability, even though they were running half-marathons and teaching scuba classes. And at USA Today, I exposed the saga of an ex-detective who was able to delay his child rape trial for 25 years, with the approval of prosecutors, because he perpetually claimed to be dying.

I’ve also written two books: “Blood Sport: Alex Rodriguez, Biogenesis, and the Quest to End Baseball’s Steroid Era,” and “Jimmy the King: Murder, Vice and the Reign of a Dirty Cop.”