Insider NFL Player X: Staying alert at two-a-days
Welcome to camp, boys and girls. I'll be your new NFL Player X, picking up where last season's anonymous All-Pro left off. I don't know who he was, …
Insider Driver X: Few friends in the garage
This article appears in the Aug. 9 issue of ESPN The Magazine. Over the past weeks I've seen lots of photos of new teammates LeBron, Dwyane Wade and …
Insider MLB Player X: Our crazy superstitions
Baseball players are creatures of habit. I know I've said it before in this space, but it's in our DNA. We wear a uniform. We are identified by the sa…
Insider MLB Player X: On trade rumors
This story appears in the July 26 issue of ESPN The Magazine. Guess what? I'm getting traded. Just kidding. But that's what a friend told me they wer…
Insider Catchers are the real MVPs
In the most recent issue of The Magazine, there's a feature on Rockies pitcher Ubaldo Jimenez. He's been awesome and is the NL Cy Young favorite. He's…
Insider MLB Player X: Sounds of the game
This article appears in the June 28 issue of ESPN The Magazine. Like everyone else in baseball, I was fired up for Stephen Strasburg's big league deb…
Insider MLB Player X: Where I'd choose to play
I've been getting a lot of e-mails from readers asking where I'd play if I could choose my team. It's an interesting question because professional spo…
Insider MLB Player X: Umps need to keep cool
In the span of about a week, Mark Buehrle and Roy Oswalt were chucked by umpires Joe West and Bill Hohn, respectively, for questionable reasons. Most …
Insider MLB Player X: "Importing" girls? Big deal
For a story in the current issue of ESPN The Magazine, Kansas City Chiefs WR Dwayne Bowe claimed that a few years ago the K.C. veterans would fly in g…
Insider NBA Player X: Questions from the pros
This article appears in the May 31 issue of ESPN The Magazine. I've spent an entire NBA season telling readers what I think. So this column is for my…