ALEXANDER WOLFF

Biography

Alex Wolff has been a member of the Sports Illustrated staff since 1980. Although his primary focus has been basketball, he has also covered a variety of sports, including tennis, cycling, football and several Olympics. He will be a regular contributor on the college basketball beat to CNN/SI, the 24-hour sports news network from CNN and Sports Illustrated.

Wolff has written five books, which include: "The In-Your-Face-Basketball Book", co-authored with Chuck Wielgus, about playground basketball in America; "Raw Recruits," co-authored with ABC News investigative correspondent Armen Keteyian, about corruption in college basketball recruiting; and "SPORTS ILLUSTRATED'S 100 Years of Hoops", on the history of basketball.

Raised in Rochester, New York, Wolff played one year in the Swiss basketball league before earning a history degree from Princeton University in 1980. The grandson of famed publishers Helen and Kurt Wolff, he now lives in New York City.