Shaun Assael, who has been with ESPN The Magazine since its launch in 1998, is a member of ESPN’s investigations unit and a contributor to the show Outside the Lines. He is also the author of three books: Wide Open: Days and Nights on the NASCAR Tour; Sex, Lies, and Headlocks, a New York Times bestseller (written with Mike Mooneyham); and Steroid Nation, a definitive account of the steroid era.