Charlie Pierce
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Charles P. ("Charlie") Pierce (b. December 28, 1953, Worcester, Massachusetts) is a nationally-known American sportswriter, author, and game show panelist.[1]
He graduated with a journalism major from Marquette University in 1975.[2]
Pierce's first job was as a forest ranger for the state of Massachusetts, where among other duties he retrieved disposable diapers from trees so that raccoons would not choke on them.[3] He wrote for Worcester Magazine in the 1970s, where he covered the Blizzard of 1978.[4]
Pierce currently writes for the Boston Globe Sunday magazine, a position he has held since April 2002. He has also written for the The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Sports Illustrated, Esquire and GQ magazines, and the e-zine Slate as well as the Media Matters blog Altercation, hosted by historian/pundit Eric Alterman.
Pierce also makes appearances on radio as a regular contributor to NPR programs Only A Game and Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! He also represented the Globe on several occasions on ESPN's Around the Horn. He also often co-hosts with Bob Ryan on NESN's Globe 10.0.
[edit] Publications
Pierce has written four books:[3]
- Sports Guy (2000)
- Hard to Forget: An Alzheimer's Story (2001)
- Moving the Chains: Tom Brady and the Pursuit of Everything (2006)
- Idiot America (2009)
[edit] References
- ^ . Worcester Magazine. 2006-04-27. http://www.worcestermag.com/archives/2006/04-27-06/city_desk.html.
- ^ "Charles P. Pierce". Charles Pierce. http://www.charlespierce.net/aboutPage.
- ^ a b "About the Panelists". National Public Radio. http://www.npr.org/programs/waitwait/aboutpanelists.html.
- ^ Chet Williamson (2008-02-21). "30th Anniversary: Blizzard of '78". Worcester Magazine. http://www.worcestermagazine.com/content/view/2472/.
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