About Me
Ryan Basen was a long-time sportswriter and news reporter with newspapers including the Charlotte Observer and a medical news site, earning investigative reporting awards from the North Carolina Press Association and Associated Press Sports Editors. He has also written features for the New York Times, Washington Post, and Baltimore Sun; authored several books aimed at the preteen audience; and even coached youth and high school baseball. A native of the Washington, D.C., area, he grew up rooting for the Baltimore Orioles.
He now lives in Washington, after the Great Recession forced him back and he has found easy access to music venues, Nationals and Capitals games, and old friends hard to give up. Ryan attended college at Washington University (St. Louis) and earned a master’s in journalism from the University of Maryland.
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Read some of my previous writings below, including features and columns published in the New York Times, Washington Post, Charlotte Observer, and Baltimore Sun -- among other sources.
- More about me and some more prominent authors who have also written for my publisher, The Sager Group.
- More about me on Amazon and Good Reads. Scintillating stuff, for sure.
"Fifty Years Ago, Last Outpost of Segregation in N.F.L. Fell [PDF]":
New York Times feature about Integration of Washington's NFL team, based on historical research.
"Many kids are overdoing it when it comes to sports, and that’s dangerous," [PDF]:
Washington Post column about overuse injuries among young athletes (including myself).
Pink-Shaded Marketing - [PDF]:
takedown of NFL's ubiquitous breast cancer awareness campaign.
Big dreams = big business - [PDF]:
Charlotte Observer feature about booming sports performance training industry.
The Yips, Potential CTE-Depression Link and More - [PDF]:
sample from my regular sports medicine column.
Playing Catch-up, - [PDF]:
magazine feature on the future of the Sporting News, which I briefly subscribed to shortly after 1989.