a bit about me...

I am writer, teacher, and a speaker.  I currently serve as a full professor in the Honors College at the University of New Mexico.  

I am the author of A Beautiful Shame: One Team's Fight for Survival in a New Era of College Sports (2025), The Strenuous Life: Theodore Roosevelt and the Making of the Modern Athlete (2019), and When Baseball Went White: Reconstruction, Reconciliation, and Dreams of a National Pastime (2014).    

In the classroom, I teach UNM Honors courses such as The Legacy of Failure and The Strenuous Life and The History of Sports in America.  While I love teaching, you can certainly count me among those academics trying to figure out what to do about reading and writing assignments now that we live in the AI generation!  

​My wife Rachael and I live in Corrales, New Mexico with our three children - Carter, Tyler, and Kate.  We also have a completely unruly 1 year old lab named Phoebe.  In my free time, I enjoy shooting hoops, tinkering with my always failing sprinkler system, sitting in the shade, and watching whatever game happens to be on.  

​I'm currently at work on a new book about the longevity revolution occurring in American sports.