About

Tommy Tomlinson is a staff writer for the new sports venture between USA Today Sports Media Group and MLB Advanced Media. They haven’t figured out an official name for the venture yet, so Tommy and his colleague Joe Posnanski are calling it Project X. There was a recent movie called “Project X” where a bunch of teenagers threw an epic party and got in trouble and stuff. This Project X has nothing to do with that one. As far as you know.

Tommy will be writing a little bit of everything for this new site, but he’ll have an emphasis on college football and stories from the South. He went to the University of Georgia, so be on alert for bias when the Dawgs play in the national championship game. (This might not be something you have to worry about for a while.)

Tommy spent 23 years as a reporter and columnist for the Charlotte Observer. While there he was named the best local columnist in America by The Week magazine and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2005. He still believes he is the only reporter in history to cover the Super Bowl, the Bassmaster Classic and the National Spelling Bee in the same calendar year. He has also written for Sports Illustrated, ESPN, Garden & Gun, Our State magazine and others. He teaches writing at Queens University in Charlotte and has done workshops across the country.

Tommy grew up in Brunswick, Ga., down on the coast, and most of his kin still live down that way. Since 1989 he’s lived in Charlotte, and since 1998 he’s been married to the beautiful and talented Alix Felsing. They have a sweet old yellow Lab named Fred. Tommy is a lucky man.