TIM LAYDEN

Tim Layden is the author of Blood, Sweat And Chalk: How The Geniuses of Football Created America’s Favorite Game. He is also a Senior Writer at Sports Illustrated, primarily writing about the NFL, Olympic sports (chiefly track and field in the summer and alpine skiing in the winter) and horse racing, and has written about a wide variety of subjects for the publication and for si.com.

Prior to writing for SI, Layden spent six years at Newsday, three years at the Albany Times-Union and nine years at the Schenectady Gazette. During his three decades in journalism, Layden has won multiple sportswriting awards, including an Eclipse Award for coverage of thoroughbred horse racing in 1987.

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