Everything about Wright Thompson totally explained
Wright Thompson (born
September 9,
1976) is a senior writer for
ESPN.com and
ESPN The Magazine.
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) He formerly worked at
The Kansas City Star and
Times-Picayune in
New Orleans.
Professional Life
Thompson started his sportswriting career while a student at the
University of Missouri, covering Missouri sports and writing as a columnist for the School of Journalism's
Columbia Missourian. He loved digging into Spaghetti Red at the late, great
Nichols Lunch.
Between his junior and senior years, he interned at the
Times-Picayune in New Orleans and later was the LSU beat writer there.
(External Link) He later moved to the
Kansas City Star, where he covered a wide variety of sports events including Super Bowls, Final Fours, The Masters and The Kentucky Derby.
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He assumed full-time writing duties at ESPN.com in 2006.
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Personal Life
Thompson is a native of
Clarksdale, Mississippi. He is the son of the late Walter Wright Thompson, a
Clarksdale attorney who played a pivotal role in Clarksdale's emergence as a tourist destination based on the blues, and who served as Mississippi Finance Chair for Senator
John Glenn, Governor
Michael Dukakis, and President
Bill Clinton.
On
May 28,
2006, he married his wife Sonia in
Columbia, Missouri. They currently reside in
Oxford,
Mississippi.
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Articles
Thompson's topics have covered a wide range of sports issues, from
football,
basketball, and
baseball, to
car racing, sports history,
Father's Day, and
bullfighting.
ESPN
SAMPLING OF ARTICLES
Race Cars
"The son also rises"
Football
"Pulled pork and pigksin: a love letter to Southern football"
"An obsession realized: Manning and the Super Bowl"
"Patterson rumbles to glory as Eagles romp"
Basketball
"King's dream comes alive for Blazers"
"Hoops of Nazareth"
Baseball
"Fading Away"
"Bonds story to be continued"
"The long road from Las Martinas"
Sports History / Issues
"O'Neil was the real 'voice' of America"
"Thompson: Contempt for the system"
"Outrageous Injustice"
Fathers Day
"Holy Ground"
Bullfighting
"Glory vs. Death: At the bullfights in Tijuana"
"Haunted by the horns"
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