This is my Web site, dedicated to my work as a journalist. You'll find a variety of pieces I've done for ESPN - where I currently work - and stories I've written for various newspapers.

How safe is the food you eat at sports stadiums? We wanted to find out, so we requested health department inspection reports for all 107 MLB, NBA, NHL, and NFL venues in the U.S. and Canada. The result: At 28 percent of the stadiums and arenas, more than half of the food stands had incurred a critical food safety violation. Read the report and watch the "Outside the Lines" piece that aired July 25, 2010, here.

It was the summer of June 1996 and I was a fresh-faced 20-year-old intern for The Times-Picayune in New Orleans. On an otherwise dull Saturday shift, I was assigned to cover the Institute of Food Technology convention where former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop was scheduled to give a speech on how people need to eat healthier. After Koop gives me his pre-speech spiel on the dangers of fatty foods, I couldn't resist asking him about his own habits. (I mean, who can reasonably have a good time in New Orleans without some decadent indulgence?)

As we stood in front of his entourage of assistants, PR handlers, and convention organizers, I asked Koop, "What did you have to eat last night?" He stiffened up, turned a little red and - realizing there were several witnesses in the room - fessed up: Fried catfish. A few stifled snickers broke the silence in the room, at which point the surly, white-bearded veteran bureaucrat peered at me through his glasses and said, "Young lady, you will soon learn that we in government get paid to tell you do as we say, not as we do."

In all my years as a journalist since, truer words have never been spoken.