About the Author

 

KEVIN ROBBINS is a senior lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin School of Journalism. He spent twenty-two years as a writer for daily newspapers, including the Austin American-Statesman, the Memphis Commercial Appeal, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. His work has appeared in Sports on Earth, the New York Times, espnW, and Texas Monthly and has twice been listed in The Best American Sports Writing. He lives in Austin, Texas.