Author: arholt

Here’s a piece from April I wrote for the JCC of Greater Baltimore’s blog about Evan Huckfeldt, a Residential Director at nearby Stevenson University who has used the Rosenbloom Owings Mills JCC to help him lose weight and get in shape: http://www.jcc.org/evan-huckfeldt-story

I recently had the privilege of being asked to cover the 2017 Washington, D.C. Sports Hall of Fame ceremony at Nationals Park for the Hall’s website. In the weeks leading up to the ceremony, I talked to previous inductees Morgan Wootten, Bob Milloy, Missy Meharg, and Johnny Holliday, as well as the Hall’s current chairman, Bobby Goldwater, and Aviva Perlo, whose father, Phil, and uncle, Hymie, were inducted in 2016. The result was this piece examining what the honor of induction into the D.C. Sports HOF has meant to some of its inductees.

Then on July 9, 2017, I attended the Hall’s annual induction ceremony, held immediately prior to the Washington Nationals’ 10-5 win over the Atlanta Braves. After the game, I wrote this article covering the day’s events. It includes quotes from former NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue, former University of Maryland men’s basketball star and U.S. Congressman Tom McMillen, and Michael Ledecky, brother of U.S. Olympic swimming icon Katie Ledecky. Other inductees included ESPN and Washington Post veteran Tony Kornheiser, former Maryland men’s basketball star Juan Dixon and Maryland women’s basketball coach Brenda Frese.

I’d be remiss if I didn’t point out that S.L. Price of Sports Illustrated has a new book out from Grove Atlantic, Playing Through The Whistle: Steel, Football and an American Town. It’s the story of a steel town near Pittsburgh called Aliquippa and its high school football team and I was fortunate enough to be able to serve as a fact-checker on the book, creating all the citations you see in the book’s endnotes. Hopefully, it serves as an example of my research and fact-checking skills but aside from that, it’s also just a really good book, in my admittedly biased opinion.