Game of My Life Penn State: Memorable Stories of Nittany Lion Football
Jordan Hyman is a writer-reporter in the Editorial Projects department at Sports Illustrated magazine in New York City, where he helps produce custom content about everything from the Indy 500 to the Olympics. He has been at Sports Illustrated for four years, contributing profiles, Q&As;, research, ideas, and more for programs that run in the magazine and/or on SI.com. His favorite moment with the magazine? Battling former Penn State All-American linebacker LaVar Arrington in a chess match on a couch in Arrington’s posh suite at NYC’s W Hotel. (Arrington, the 1999 Butkus Award winner, calmly answered Hyman’s questions while taking the shocked reporter down in a mere 20 minutes, employing a string of shrewd moves to secure checkmate.)Hyman, a former editor at the Preview Sports line of magazines in New York and onetime reporter for the Easton, Pennsylvania Express-Times daily newspaper, freelances regularly for The Penn Stater, Penn State’s alumni magazine. He’s a 1999 graduate of Penn State, where he covered the 1997 football season and later served as sports editor for The Daily Collegian, the university’s college newspaper.