tim layden Stories - Roll 'Bama Roll
An Interview with Tim Layden, Sports Illustrated Senior Writer
I recently had the good fortune of interviewing Sports Illustrated Senior Writer Tim Layden, author of Drew Brees' Sportsman of the Year profile in this week's Sports Illustrated. Here is an excerpt from the interview, edited slightly for clarity. You can listen to the entire, unedited interview...
Roll Bama Roll Goes Respectable: The Tim Layden Interview
Believe it or not, a real, live sports journalist took about fifteen minutes out of his life to talk with us about college football and to plug a book, and they actually sought us out for it! Where did my life take such a strange turn? Anyway, the journalist in question is Mr. Tim Layden, a...
Behind the Hit
I hear a lot of talk about the demise of Sports Illustrated, especially since the magazine has lost writers like Michael Silver and Jeffri Chadiha. But I thoroughly enjoyed Tim Layden's article about the culture of NFL hitting. It breaks down some memorable moments, and frames the issue in a lot of...





