At the Boston Book Festival this past fall, where I had the joy of sitting in a large venue talking with Howard Bryant, Etan Thomas, and...

On Wednesday, my nephew's high school soccer career ended. I've written about Max and soccer before -- indeed, one of my most popular...

...and we’re just living in it. The scope of the Lewiston High School Blue Devils never ceases to amaze me. Over the course of the last...

Unlike me, my daughter only knows the Boston Red Sox to be a powerhouse. Just 11, she's always seen them as contenders, winners. Last...

That the traditional gift for a 50th anniversary is gold is fitting, because that is exactly what Tommie Smith got on October 16, 1968....

The question I get asked perhaps most of all: where are they now? Where are the players, the coaches, and the families of ONE GOAL? ...

I first picked up a copy of Maria Semple's Where'd You Go, Bernadette? because my sister told me to. She picked it up because John Green...

With World Cup action going full throttle (I think MEXICO v. GERMANY took years off my life, not to mention ICELAND ICELAND ICELAND), I...

Putting together a book tour is a crazy thing. It's a combination of who you know, where your public relations folks want to send you,...

"When one walks through the gate of Don Roux field and buys a ticket the blue-and-white Snack Shack sits to the left just off the track. ...

I ducked into a local coffee shop this morning and greeted the usual suspects who sat at their various tables, starting their Fridays off...

Nuri was excited. He had loved soccer forever, kicking a ball around in the dirt in Saudi Arabia when he was little. Usually he scored...

1. Mother Nature Hates Soccer: Three storms, three weeks. The only thing I could do about it was laugh. Just a few days after the...

Last weekend, before an event for my book ONE GOAL at the amazing Savoy Bookshop in Westerly, RI, I did an interview with a writer from...

The very first person I reached out to when I first wrote about the Lewiston Blue Devils was Abdikadir Negeye. Co-founder of the Somali...

In between two nor'easters, I headed up to Ithaca this past week to give the Seymour Lecture at Cornell University. The lecture happened...

Day 1 and done. Publication Day began with a handful of radio interviews, a screening of the TODAY show piece about Blue Devils soccer,...

ONE GOAL launches in just a few hours, February 27, 2018. The fall of 2015, when I embarked on the writing of this book, seems so far...

It was thrilling to see an excerpt from ONE GOAL in Sports Illustrated. With only a few more days until publication, offering a snapshot...

In 2014 at the Sochi Olympic Winter Games, Hannah Kearney's face said everything. A bronze medal wasn't good enough for the virtuoso...