About
Since graduating from Towson University with a degree in journalism, Sean has been on a relentless pursuit to turn his biggest passion into a career. For the last 15 years, he has been able to do just that, although the road has been filled with twists and turns along the way.
After a brief stint as the sports editor for a small-town Virginia newspaper right out of college, Sean landed a season-long position with the Washington Nationals publications team, where he wrote feature stories for the game-day magazine and online blog.
When that came to an end, Sean realized he wanted to focus on the sport he cared about the most - football. After writing for free anywhere that would accept him, Sean was eventually offered a full-time college sports writing position for HERO Sports, a small startup out of Seattle. While 90 percent of his work focused on college football, a one-on-one interview with Tom Brady (that happened completely by accident) ended up going viral. It was a first-person narrative titled, “I Jealously Resented Tom Brady for No Reason. Everything Changed When I Met Him.” That article changed the trajectory of Sean’s career, as he got a call from Sports Illustrated a few months after it was published. For the next six to seven years, Sean covered Virginia Tech, the ACC and, eventually, college football as a whole for SI and On3.
Ultimately, Sean was offered an editor position with FOX (OutKick) in 2020 and led a team of 15 to 20 reporters and writers. He was responsible for finding and assigning story ideas, editing each piece before publication on the site, managing social media channels, and ensuring all articles met editorial standards.
After three years there, Sean realized he missed telling unique, behind-the-scenes stories and trending angles, and decided to get back to doing what he loved the most - writing about football and the athletes, coaches, and storylines that make it the most popular sport in the United States.
For the last year and a half, Sean has been working for The Sporting News, where he is assigned coverage of eight NFL teams. He prides himself on storytelling and keeping the reader engaged in a media landscape where attention spans are at an all-time low and clicks are often incentivized over quality writing. Sean thrives in high-pressure, deadline-driven environments and is a stickler for detail. He prides himself on his ability to adapt, writing a detailed human-interest feature about a player’s battle with addiction and mental health one day, while predicting the top five breakout players in 2025 the next.
Sean lives between Richmond and Washington, D.C., in Fredericksburg, Virginia, and has two rescue pups, Wally and Reagan. He is a die-hard Commanders fan, and after a lifetime of letdowns under Dan Snyder’s ownership, Sean is brimming with optimism about Jayden Daniels and the future.
