Patrick Hruby is an award-winning 
journalist who lives with his lovely wife, Saphira, and the world's greatest golden retriever in Washington, D.C. A culture writer for The Washington Times, he authors a weekly sports column for The PostGame and contributes to The Atlantic Online. His work has appeared four times in The Best American Sports Writing anthology and on ESPN.com and ESPNw. A graduate of Georgetown University, he holds a master's degree from Northwestern University and has specialized in intelligent, witty and insightful writing on a wide variety of sports-related subjects, from the conspiratorial, Oliver Stone-shaming possible murder of Pakistan's national cricket coach to the groupie-besotten world of professional video game players to how the Super Bowl can, in fact, kill you. Try not to panic.