Tom Friend

Tom Friend is a feature writer, columnist, director and commentator who has worked for ESPN, the New York Times , the Washington Post , the Los Angeles Times , the Kansas City Star , the San Jose Mercury News and the National Sports Daily . He has had multiple stories reprinted in the anthology The Best American Sports Writing, and his TV version of The Chicken Runs at Midnight --which he reported and wrote for ESPN--was nominated for a 2016 Sports Emmy. A graduate of the University of...See more

Tom Friend is a feature writer, columnist, director and commentator who has worked for ESPN, the New York Times , the Washington Post , the Los Angeles Times , the Kansas City Star , the San Jose Mercury News and the National Sports Daily . He has had multiple stories reprinted in the anthology The Best American Sports Writing, and his TV version of The Chicken Runs at Midnight --which he reported and wrote for ESPN--was nominated for a 2016 Sports Emmy. A graduate of the University of Missouri and a native of Washington, D.C., he lives in Southern California with his wife and two children. See less