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Wright Thompson is a senior writer for ESPN.com

ESPN.com

ESPN.com is the official website of ESPN and a division of ESPN Inc. Since launching in 1995 as ESPNet.SportsZone.com, the website has developed numerous sections including: Page 2, SportsNation, ESPN 3.com, ESPN Motion, My ESPN, ESPN Sports Travel, ESPN Video Games, ESPN Insider, ESPN.com's...

and ESPN The Magazine

ESPN The Magazine

ESPN The Magazine is a bi-weekly sports magazine published by the ESPN sports network in Bristol, Connecticut in the United States. The first issue was published on March 11, 1998....

.http://sports.espn.go.com/keyword/search?searchString=wright_thompson&rT=sports He formerly worked at The Kansas City Star
The Kansas City Star
The Kansas City Star is a McClatchy newspaper based in Kansas City, Missouri, in the United States. Published since 1880, the paper is the recipient of eight Pulitzer Prizes...

and Times-Picayune in New Orleans.

Professional life

Thompson started his sportswriting career while a student at the University of Missouri

University of Missouri

The University of Missouri System is a state university system providing centralized administration for four universities, a health care system, an extension program, five research and technology parks, and a publishing press. More than 64,000 students are currently enrolled at its four campuses...

, covering Missouri sports and writing as a columnist for the School of Journalism's Columbia MissourianMissouri School of Journalism
The Missouri School of Journalism at University of Missouri in Columbia, claims to be the oldest formal journalism school in the world. Founded in 1908, only the Ecole Supérieure de Journalisme de Paris established in 1899 may be older...

.

Between his junior and senior years, he interned at the Times-Picayune in New Orleans and later was the LSU beat writer there.http://apse.dallasnews.com/apr2001/20arnold.html He later moved to the Kansas City Star, where he covered a wide variety of sports events including Super Bowls, Final Fours, The Masters and The Kentucky Derby.http://google.com/search?q=cache:FgvjJM3Uf2IJ:mississippi.scout.com/2/689605.html+wright+thompson+university+of+missouri&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=4&gl=us&client=firefox-a

He assumed full-time writing duties at ESPN.com in 2006.http://bottomlinecom.com/wright_thompson.htm

Personal life

Thompson is a native of Clarksdale, Mississippi

Clarksdale, Mississippi

Clarksdale is a city in Coahoma County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 20,645 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Coahoma County....

. He is the son of Mary Thompson and the late Walter Wright Thompson, a Clarksdale

Clarksdale

Clarksdale may refer to some places in the United States:*Clarksdale, Illinois, unincorporated community in Christian County*Clarksdale, Indiana, unincorporated community in Brown County*Clarksdale, Mississippi, city in Coahoma County...

attorney who played a pivotal role in Clarksdale's emergence as a tourist destination based on the blues, and who served as Mississippi Finance Chair for Senator John Glenn

John Glenn

John Herschel Glenn, Jr. is a former United States Marine Corps pilot, astronaut, and United States senator who was the first American to orbit the Earth and the third American in space. Glenn was a Marine Corps fighter pilot before joining NASA's Mercury program as a member of NASA's original...

, Governor Michael Dukakis

Michael Dukakis

Michael Stanley Dukakis served as the 65th and 67th Governor of Massachusetts from 1975–1979 and from 1983–1991, and was the Democratic presidential nominee in 1988. He was born to Greek immigrants in Brookline, Massachusetts, also the birthplace of John F. Kennedy, and was the longest serving...

, and President Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton

William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...

Articles

Thompson's topics have covered a wide range of sports issues, from football

American football

American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

, basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

, and baseball

Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...

, to car racing, sports history, Father's Day

Father's Day

Father's Day is a celebration honoring fathers and celebrating fatherhood, paternal bonds, and the influence of fathers in society. Many countries celebrate it on the third Sunday of June but it is also celebrated widely on other days...

, and bullfighting

Bullfighting

Bullfighting is a traditional spectacle of Spain, Portugal, southern France and some Latin American countries , in which one or more bulls are baited in a bullring for sport and entertainment...

. Thompson also covered the 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup in the Sub-continent of India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

ESPN

ESPN's list of "Wright Thompson articles"

SAMPLING OF ARTICLES

Boxing

"Shadow Boxing"

Race Cars

"The son also rises"

Football

Basketball

Baseball

Cricket

"Why you should care about cricket"; alternate title: "In Tendulkar country"
"Bangladesh madly in love with cricket"

Sports History / Issues

Fathers Day

"Holy Ground"

Bullfighting

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