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Sports Illustrated senior writer Tim Layden, who joined the magazine in
March 1994, primarily writes about the NFL, Olympic sports (chiefly
track and field in the summer and alpine skiing in the winter) and horse
racing, but has written about a wide variety of subjects for the
publication and for si.com.
Before coming to 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.
Among Layden's most significant work for the magazine are stories
detailing the remarkable recovery of injured NFL player Kevin Everett
(Dec. 2007), the phenomenon of Big Hits in the NFL (July 2007), the
Triple Crown near-misses by Funny Cide (2003), Smarty Jones (2004) and
Big Brown (2008), the tragic career of track star Marion Jones, the
subculture of ticket scalping in the pre-Internet world (1997) and
during the winter of 1995, the growing problem of gambling by college
students.
Born and raised in Whitehall, N.Y., Layden graduated in 1978 from
Williams College, where he was an English major and a member of the
basketball team. He is a runner-turned-cyclist who regularly battles the
hills of northern Connecticut, where he lives with his wife and two
children.