Don Van Natta Jr. is an investigative reporter at ESPN who writes for ESPN The Magazine and ESPN.com. Prior to that, he worked for 16 years at the New York Times, where he was a member of two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams and was posted in the Times‘ London, Washington and Miami bureaus. He is the author of three books, including the New York Times bestseller First Off the Tee: Presidential Hackers, Duffers and Cheaters from Taft to Bush, and Wonder Girl: The Magnificent Sporting Life of Babe Didrikson Zaharias, which will be published in paperback in May. He is now writing a book about the Murdoch phone-hacking scandal with his former Times colleague Sarah Lyall. He lives in Miami with his wife, Lizette Alvarez, the Times‘ Miami bureau chief, and their two daughters.
I still remember where I was—sitting in a dive bar in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., trying to tune out the noise from the beach bums and a jukebox blaring Madonna and the Bangles—when I read these words: Just before noon the … Read more
