The amazing and blessed life of popular ESPN reporter and correspondent for College GameDay, Marty Smith, whose mission in this thoughtful and funny memoir is to return fans to the true soul of sports in this country.
Born 1959. Grew up in Suburbia (Washington, DC, then Omaha, Nebraska). Kent State University, 1977-82, majoring in Architecture with minors in Partying and the Society For Creative Anachronisms. Then moved to North Carolina, and never left. Worked as draftsman to local architects for 15 years; also as movie-theatre projectionists, census clerk, hobby-shop staff. Volunteer DJ at WXDU, Duke student radio, 1986-2009. Member of Carolina Bear Lodge (gay fraternal order) and St. John's Metropolitan Community Church. Married my husband Robin unofficially in 2005, legally in 2015.