- Stewart Mandel
Stewart Mandel is a
sports writer forSI.com , focusing oncollege football . He currently writes the "College Football Mailbag" (The Mailbag) column, numerous individual features, and a College FootballBlog . He also writes about men'scollege basketball . He is an AP voter in the NCAA Football AP poll.Stewart was raised in
Cincinnati, Ohio , attending Sycamore High School, and is a graduate ofNorthwestern University (1998) with a degree inJournalism . He has worked for SI.com since 1999. He currently lives in theUpper West Side ofNew York City .
=Personal life= Stewart plays on Sporting Wood, a charitysoftball team in New York City.In July 2006, Stewart announced on SI.com that he'd added his own
MySpace page.In September 2006, Stewart stayed with some Notre Dame students after asking for a place to stay in his Mailbag column. He reportedly received hundreds of offers from students willing to host him for a night while he watched games and worked.
In 2007, Stewart released his first book: "Bowls, Polls, and Tattered Souls: Tackling the Chaos and Controversy that Reign Over College Football."
A practicing
Jew , Mandel held off from writing his featured SI.com sports blog during and in observance ofYom Kippur when it fell on a game day during the college football season.Stewart Mandel, [http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/si_blogs/football/ncaa/2007/09/four-thoughts-for-friday.html Four Thoughts for Friday] , SI.com, September 21, 2007.]References
External links
* [http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/writers/stewart_mandel/archive/index.html SI.com Stewart Mandel archive]
* [http://www.myspace.com/stewartmandel Stewart Mandel's MySpace page]
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