Dan Wolken

Dan Wolken is an award-winning columnist for USA TODAY Sports who has spent more than two decades primarily covering college sports, the NBA, the Olympic Games, tennis, and horse racing. His work has been recognized multiple times by the Associated Press Sports Editors. Prior to USA TODAY, Wolken’s work appeared on FOX Sports and in The Commercial Appeal, where he primarily wrote about the Memphis Tigers’ basketball program during its rise to the Final Four under John Calipari. A 2001 graduate of Vanderbilt University, Wolken started his career at Colorado Springs’s The Gazette. He currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia and plays tennis every chance he gets.