George dohrmann sports illustrated biography
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George Dohrmann
American journalist
George Dohrmann (born February 14, 1973), is an editor and writer for The Athletic, the 2000 Pulitzer Prize winner for beat reporting,[2] and author of Play Their Hearts Out, which received the 2011 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing.[3]
Background and career
In college, he wrote for The Observer.
In 2000, while working at the St. Paul Pioneer Press, Dohrmann won a Pulitzer Prize for a series of stories that uncovered widespread academic fraud in the University of Minnesota men's basketball program. The Citation says,
Awarded to George Dohrmann of St.
Paul Pioneer Press for his determined reporting, despite negative reader reaction, that revealed academic fraud in the men's basketball program at the University of Minnesota.[5]
A few months after winning the prize he joined Sports Illustrated where he worked as a senior writer dealing with investigative projects into college bask