Steve Rushin

Steve Rushin (b. September 22, 1966 in Elmhurst, IL) is an American sportswriter. He wrote a weekly column, "Air and Space", for "Sports Illustrated" magazine. Formerly labeled "Steve Rushin's Air and Space", the column ran from 1998-2007 and concentrated on subjects within and sometimes tangential to sports. [http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/inside_game/archives/steve_rushin/]

He was named the 2005 National Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association. [http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1104422/index.htm]

He is married to college basketball analyst and former basketball player Rebecca Lobo. They have two daughters, Siobhan and Maeve, and reside in Connecticut. [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa4112/is_200308/ai_n9292948] [http://uconn.blogs.com/huskyblog/2005/11/shes_a_rushin_n.html]

Rushin is the author of "Road Swing: One Fan's Journey Into the Soul of America's Sports" (1998) [http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=26492] and "The Caddie Was a Reindeer" (2004). [http://books.google.com/books?id=JCrBWjKygZwC&dq=steve+rushin+caddie+was+a&pg=PP1&ots=whvDI7uYrJ&sig=VHCXdpfvJ-Oko4wP-8jG_8-Bu-k&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result]

Rushin left Sports Illustrated in February 2007. He has since found a niche as an occasional contributor to Time magazine's issue-closing essays. [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1647487,00.html] [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1649321,00.html] [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1657807,00.html] [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1661681,00.html]

He is a graduate of John F. Kennedy Senior High School in Bloomington, Minnesota.He is a graduate of Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI where he was the speaker at graduation in May 2007.