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Ashwin Rodrigues is a staff writer at Vice. 

Jon Ronson is a Welsh-American journalist, author, and filmmaker whose works include Them: Adventures with Extremists  (2001),  The Men Who Stare at Goats  (2004), and  The Psychopath Test (2011). He produces informal but skeptical investigations of controversial fringe politics and science.

Jonathan Ames is an American author who has written a number of novels and comic memoirs, and is the creator of two television series,  Bored to Death  ( HBO ) and  Blunt Talk  ( STARZ ). In the late '90s and early 2000s, he was a columnist for the  New York Press  for several years, and became known for self-deprecating tales of his sexual misadventures. He also has a long-time interest in boxing...

Chuck Klosterman is an American author and essayist whose work focuses on  American popular culture . He has been a columnist for  Esquire  and  ESPN.com  and wrote "The Ethicist" column for  The New York Times Magazine . Klosterman is the author of eleven books, including two novels and the essay collection  Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto . 

Uncover the man behind the myth of one of America’s greatest and most complicated writers. Hemingway from Ken Burns and Lynn Novick premieres April 5, 2021 on PBS. 

Jerry Izenberg is a  sports journalist  with  The Newark Star-Ledger  in  Newark, New Jersey.  Izenberg has covered many memorable sporting events and figures of the late twentieth century, including  Sonny Werblin 's ownership of the  New York Jets , the boxing career of  Muhammad Ali , and the  Loma Prieta earthquake  which interrupted the  1989 World Series .

Dan Roberts is an attorney and has written about boxing, law, violence against women and - occasionally - good champagne for Deadspin (RIP), Splinter, and others.

Brian Koppelman is an American showrunner. He is the co-writer of Ocean's Thirteen  and  Rounders , the producer for films including  The Illusionist  and  The Lucky Ones , the director for films including  Solitary Man  and the documentary This Is What They Want for  ESPN  as part of their  30 for 30  series, and the co-creator, showrunner, and executive producer of  Showtime 's  Billions .    

Gay Talese is an American writer. As a journalist for  The New York Times  and  Esquire magazine during the 1960s, Talese helped to define contemporary literary journalism. Talese's most famous articles are about Joe DiMaggio and Frank Sinatra.

Alex Vadukul is a city correspondent for The New York Times. He writes for Sunday Metropolitan and is a three-time winner of the New York Press Club award for city writing. He teaches journalism at The New School.  

Jason Kander is an American attorney, author, veteran, and former politician. A Democrat , he served as the 39th  Secretary of State of Missouri , from 2013 to 2017.  Before entering politics, he was an intelligence officer in the  Army National Guard , achieving the rank of  captain .    

Holly Lawson is a personal trainer and former professional boxer originally from Sechelt, British Columbia, Canada     

Evan Rutkowski is the head of boxing at Ring City USA and formerly worked as a marketing executive for HBO Sports. 

Bruce Pandolfini is an American chess author, teacher, and coach. A USCF national master, he is generally considered to be America's most experienced chess teacher. Pandolfini was a consultant to  The Queen's Gambit , a 2020 American Netflix miniseries.

Andre Ward is an American former professional boxer who competed from 2004 to 2017. He retired with an undefeated record and held multiple world titles in two weight classes. He also won a gold medal in the light heavyweight division at the 2004 Olympics.  

Irvine Welsh is a Scottish novelist, playwright and short story writer. His novel Trainspotting was made into a film of the same name. He has also written plays and screenplays, and directed several short films.

Thomas Hauser is the author of forty-eight books on subjects ranging from professional boxing to Beethoven. Hist first novel Missing was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, the Bancroft Prize, and the National Book Award, and was the basis for the Academy Award-winning film starring Jack Lemmon and Sissy Spacek. Hauser wrote Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times—the definitive biography of “the most famo...

Bill Hillmann is an American author, storyteller, and journalist. He is a bull-runner and former boxer.

Charles Bock is an American writer whose debut 2008 novel Beautiful Children was selected by The New York Times as a Notable Book of the Year for 2008, and won the 2009 Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.  

T. J. English is an American author and journalist known primarily for his non-fiction books about the Irish mob, organized crime, criminal justice and the American underworld.

Fernanda Prates is an MMA staff writer at The Athletic. She is a sports journalist based out of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, who worked as a correspondent and reporter for MMA Junkie for three years.

Todd Snyder is associate professor of rhetoric and writing at Siena College and author of the new book 'Bundini: Don't Believe The Hype'

Robert Lipsyte is an American sports journalist and author and former Ombudsman for ESPN. He is a member of the Board of Contributors for USA Today's Forum Page, part of the newspaper's Opinion section. He received the Margaret Edwards Award from the American Library Association in 2001 for his contribution in writing for teens.

Chris Bell is an American director, producer and writer, known for his documentaries Bigger, Stronger, Faster., Trophy Kids, and Prescription Thugs. His work is focused on the impact that society has on our consumption and addictions, especially to prescription drugs.

Brian Campbell covers MMA, boxing and WWE. The Connecticut native joined CBS Sports in 2017 and has covered combat sports since 2010. He has written and hosted various podcasts and digital shows for ESPN and Grantland.