About

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 writer for Sports on Earth and adjunct professor at Georgetown University, he contributes to The Atlantic online, Washingtonian magazine and elsewhere. His work also has appeared in ESPN the Magazine, Reader's Digest and The Washington Times and on ESPN.com, The PostGame, ESPNw, Business Insider and the UK Guardian online. Three of his features have been selected for The Best American Sports Writing anthology.

A Georgetown graduate, Patrick holds a master's degree from Northwestern University and specializes in intelligent, powerful, witty and insightful writing on a wide variety of sports (and non-sports) related subjects, including the national outrage that is Sports Welfare; the Oliver Stone-shaming world of sports conspiracy theories; the tragic, concussion-related suicide of a high school football player; the man behind the myth of Dock Ellis' LSD no-hitter; the head-spinning possible murder of Pakistan's national cricket coach; a bloody, anthropological Valentine to hockey goons and the men who love them. Oh, and also, how ballpark food hijacks your brain. Try not to panic.