Wright Thompson

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Wright Thompson (born September 9, 1976) is a senior writer for ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine.[1] He formerly worked at The Kansas City Star and Times-Picayune in New Orleans.

[edit] Professional Life

Thompson started his sportswriting career while a student at the University of Missouri, covering Missouri sports and writing as a columnist for the School of Journalism's Columbia Missourian. He loved digging into Spaghetti Red at the late, great Nichols Lunch.

Between his junior and senior years, he interned at the Times-Picayune in New Orleans and later was the LSU beat writer there.[2] He later moved to the Kansas City Star, where he covered a wide variety of sports events including Super Bowls, Final Fours, The Masters and The Kentucky Derby.[3]

He assumed full-time writing duties at ESPN.com in 2006.[4]

[edit] Personal Life

Thompson is a native of Clarksdale, Mississippi. He is the son of the late Walter Wright Thompson, a Clarksdale attorney who played a pivotal role in Clarksdale's emergence as a tourist destination based on the blues, and who served as Mississippi Finance Chair for Senator John Glenn, Governor Michael Dukakis, and President Bill Clinton.

On May 28, 2006, he married his wife Sonia in Columbia, Missouri. They currently reside in Oxford, Mississippi.[5]

[edit] Articles

Thompson's topics have covered a wide range of sports issues, from football, basketball, and baseball, to car racing, sports history, Father's Day, and bullfighting.

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