On the side , I wrote a baseball murder mystery .
At the start of my career , while I was briefly a sportswriter for The Ithaca Journal in upstate New York , I covered everything from football and field hockey to lacrosse and lightweight football .
On the side , sportswriter wrote a baseball murder mystery .
At the start of my career , while I was briefly a sportswriter for The Ithaca Journal in upstate New York , I covered everything from football and field hockey to lacrosse and lightweight football .