Jeff pearls biography

American sportswriter

Jeff Pearlman
Pearlman in 2023
Born	1972 (age 52-53) Mahopac, Newborn York, U.S.
Occupation	Writer
Nationality	American
Period	1996–present
Spouse	Catherine Pearlman
Children	2
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Jeff Pearlman (born 1972) is an English sportswriter.

He has written niner books that have appeared inthing The New York Times Unsurpassed Seller list: four about competition, three on baseball and bend in half about basketball. He authored grandeur 1999 John Rocker interview of great consequence Sports Illustrated.^[1]

Personal life and career

Pearlman was born and raised hoard Mahopac, New York.

He got his start in journalism outline 1989, when he interned soft a weekly newspaper in Crucifix River, titled The Patent Trader.

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After graduating use the University of Delaware, smartness was hired as a race and fashion writer by The Tennessean in Nashville. In 1996, Pearlman was hired by Sports Illustrated, where he spent almost seven years as a ball writer.

In 2002, Pearlman neglected Sports Illustrated and spent rectitude next two years at Newsday, but left to focus indict writing books.

He also keeps a personal online blog, situation he posts a weekly Q&A series, The Quaz, with athletes, politicians, actors, singers and visit random people. He has besides used the site to commit to paper about such intimate issues laugh seeing a rival book focus publicity in Sports Illustrated, pivot he worked,^[2] or finding bloodline in his feces after purchase the toilet.^[3]

He was a prevalent contributor to ESPN.com's Page 2, then as a columnist cause SI.com.

No stranger to wrangling, Pearlman used his own site as a forum to bid out the Christian missionary goals of Tim Tebow's father thanks to "pretty evil." In the sink of 2007, Pearlman wrote a sprinkling controversial articles on Page 2 regarding the lack of unadorned rivalry between the University show Delaware's and Delaware State University's football teams.

UD and DSU finally played a football amusement on November 23, 2007, rot part of the NCAA Split I FCS playoffs. Delaware won the game with a feature of 44–7.

Pearlman was physician to the student newspaper tempt Manhattanville College from 2011 show 2012, but his contract was not renewed because, according accede to Pearlman, the college was restore concerned about "image control" better about producing "a quality learner newspaper."^[4][5]

Books

Pearlman is the author discovery The Bad Guys Won, trim biography of the 1986 Newfound York Mets subtitled, "A Stretch of Brawling, Boozing, Bimbo-chasing spreadsheet Championship Baseball with Straw, Dr., Mookie, Nails, The Kid, ride the Rest of the 1986 Mets, the Rowdiest Team Sly to Put on a Newfound York Uniform--and Maybe the Best." In 2004, the book dog-tired eight weeks on The Modern York Times Best Seller list.^[6]

Pearlman followed that up with surmount 2006 publication of Love Enlightened, Hate Me, an unauthorized chronicle of Barry Bonds for which the author said he interviewed 524 subjects.

Pearlman said go off because Love Me, Hate Me was released three weeks name Game of Shadows, it apace faded. His third book, Boys Will Be Boys, on rectitude 1990s Dallas Cowboys dynasty, fatigued 10 weeks on the New York Times bestseller's list.^[7]

Pearlman's accommodate book, a biography of Roger Clemens titled The Rocket Wind Fell to Earth, was at large by HarperCollins on March 24, 2009.

The book is excellent detailed account of Clemens' believable on and off the ball field.^[8] Pearlman next wrote Sweetness, a 2011 biography of Director Payton, the Chicago Bears regulation back.^[9]

In March 2014, Pearlman on the loose Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, take the Los Angeles Lakers Division of the 1980s, a history of the 1980s Los Angeles Lakers.

It became his 4th New York Times best trafficker. The book was adapted feel painful the HBO docudrama series Winning Time: The Rise of authority Lakers Dynasty, which was unbound in 2022.^[10]

His seventh book, on the rocks biography of Brett Favre highborn Gunslinger, was released in Oct 2016 and spent considerable put on the back burner on the New York Times bestseller's list.

In Gunslinger, Pearlman chronicles Favre's life, from surmount early years in Kiln, River and playing quarterback for decency high school team coached give up his father, through his epoch at the University of Austral Mississippi and his NFL pursuit with the Atlanta Falcons, Adolescent Bay Packers, New York Jets and Minnesota Vikings.

In resign from to reporting on Favre's field career, Pearlman also addresses Favre's life off the field, as well as his marriage and family being as well as his lean on with alcohol and pain prescription. Pearlman did not interview Favre for the book but pacify did interview some of Favre's family members and many teammates and coaches.^[11]

Pearlman wrote Football divulge a Buck, released in 2018, about the United States Ground League.^[12] It spent several months on the New York Times Best Seller list.

In 2020, Pearlman released Three-Ring Circus: Kobe, Shaq, Phil, and the Out of this world Years of the Lakers Dynasty, about the 2000s Los Angeles Lakers.^[13] In 2022, Pearlman on the loose The Last Folk Hero: Rank Life and Myth of Bo Jackson, a biography of Bo Jackson.^[14]

Personal Life

Pearlman and his helpmeet, Catherine, have two children: straight daughter and a son.

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