Michael F. Bamberger is a senior writer for Sports Illustrated

Sports Illustrated

Sports Illustrated is an American sports media company owned by media conglomerate Time Warner. Its self titled magazine has over 3.5 million subscribers and is read by 23 million adults each week, including over 18 million men. It was the first magazine with circulation over one million to win the...

 and the author of multiple books including Wonderland: A Year in the Life of an American High School and The Man Who Heard Voices: Or, How M. Night Shyamalan Risked His Career on a Fairy Tale. He is also the author of the play Bart & Fay," about the long time relationship of Bart Giamatti and Fay Vincent

Fay Vincent

Francis Thomas "Fay" Vincent, Jr. is a former entertainment lawyer and sports executive who served as the eighth Commissioner of Major League Baseball from September 13, 1989 to September 7, 1992.-Early life and career:...

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He was also a reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer

The Philadelphia Inquirer

The Philadelphia Inquirer is a morning daily newspaper that serves the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, metropolitan area of the United States. The newspaper was founded by John R. Walker and John Norvell in June 1829 as The Pennsylvania Inquirer and is the third-oldest surviving daily newspaper in the...

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