Matthew Futterman is a veteran sports journalist with The New York Times. He has previously worked for The Wall Street Journal, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Star-Ledger of New Jersey, where he was a part of the team that won the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News in 2005. He graduated from Union College, and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. He lives in New York with his wife and children. In his spare time he runs marathons. He is starting to understand why.    

Last year Matt Roberts of The Tennis Podcast and I completed our own career slam — playing in Melbourne, Paris, London and New York.