Grant Wahl joined Sports Illustrated in November 1996 as a reporter and was promoted to his current position of senior writer in October 2000. Wahl’s writing for SI and SI.com includes college basketball, soccer, investigative reporting and features on a variety of topics. He began his career as an intern with the Miami Herald in 1996.

Wahl has covered 12 NCAA basketball tournaments, five World Cups and two Olympics for SI. Some of his recent stories include "Fast and Furious", which detailed the spread of the innovative Dribble-Drive Motion offense through every level of basketball, and cover stories on LeBron James, Kevin Durant, Tyler Hansbrough and David Beckham.

Wahl first won critical acclaim for his work (with L. Jon Wertheim) on the 1998 cover story "Where’s Daddy?" which documented the staggering number of illegitimate children born to professional athletes. He has also won three Magazine Story of the Year awards given by the U.S. Basketball Writers Association for his articles on the Princeton-style offense, North Carolina coach Roy Williams and Tar Heel Rashad McCants.

In 11 years Wahl has written 30 SI cover stories and more than 200 articles, which have taken him to 38 states and 22 countries.

When he isn’t traveling for SI, Wahl spends his time reading, running, watching indie movies and touring the world’s food capitals with his wife. He is conversational in Spanish.

Wahl, 34, grew up in Mission, Kan., and attended Princeton University where he graduated with a B.A. in politics in 1996. He lives in Baltimore.

Updated 18 April 2008