Hi! Welcome to my blog, which represents my views and my views alone, etc. 

I’m a freelance sports reporter and online editor for The Wall Street Journal, which means I’ve written about athletes doing the Dougie and the snow dances of ski resorts; champion lushes in college sports and impromptu basketball pickup games on the college campus; how New Yorkers keep up with Jeremy Lin and how Denver rabbis use Tim Tebow; artists who make fan zines about NBA players, talk-show hosts that yap like puppies and restauranteurs who prefer the ponies; plus much more. I’ve also blogged for the Daily Fix about Tebowing, Angry Birds, swag (and swag swag), Butler’s bulldog and Manny Pacquiao’s singing. Sometimes, I show up on camera, too. 

I’ve written recently for Grantland about basketball pro-ams, bumper stickers on Maybachs and Gus Johnson; Deadspin about the Heisman Trophy candidacy that started with a photo (and a lot of other things); The Classical about the most unlikely high-school hoops powerhouse in the country; Yahoo! Sports longreads about a club of statistical whiz kids at Harvard and the Dukie who found his game on Twitter; Tablet about all things Jewish; The Awl on a remarkable Southern writer and outdoor off-Broadway auditions; and Towerview on the past and future of Cameron Indoor Stadium. 

Last year, I published a Kindle Single, The Art of Winning, about the career of Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski. I wrote an epilogue for An Illustrated History of Duke Basketball, published in 2012, and I was the researcher for Open, Andre Agassi’s memoir. 

Please feel free to e-mail me anything and anytime at bzcohen [at] gmail [dot] com.