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Here is the cut-rate version:
I'm Michael Weinreb, a freelance sportswriter based in New York City. My work has appeared in The New York Times, Newsday, The Boston Globe, Boston Magazine, SLAM Magazine, ESPN the Magazine and many other places, and has been cited three times in the Best American Sports Writing anthology.
I grew up in State College, Pennsylvania, and attended Penn State University, where I did not play football, though I did write about it (and on occasion, I still do).
Before I came to New York, I spent five years as a sports writer and columnist at the Beacon Journal in Akron, Ohio, land of suggestive-sounding football stadiums and especially large meatballs, where I covered everything from the Masters to an electric football tournament to a young whippersnapper named LeBron. I was also one of the primary writers of special section about the 30th anniversary of the Kent State shootings that was nominated by the paper for a Pulitzer Prize, and I co-authored a pair of books with a serially upbeat NBA executive named Pat Williams.
I left Akron in 2000 to attend the graduate program in fiction writing at Boston University, and received scholarships to writing workshops in Belize and St. Petersburg, Russia. In 2004, my first book of short stories, Girl Boy Etc., was published, and perhaps a few dozen people noticed.
I was a staff writer at Newsday until April 2006, and I currently write for several publications.
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