John Branch is The New York Times 2013 Pulitzer Prize winner for Feature Writing , Prior to the NY Times he was a sports columnist at The Fresno Bee from , and worked at The Colorado Springs Gazette as a business reporter from 1996 to 1998 and a sports reporter from 1998 to 2002.
His 2011 series “Punched Out,” about Derek Boogaard, shed light on the sport’s potentially brain-damaging violence. The series won several awards, including a Dart Award for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma, and was a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing, that three-part newspaper series paved the way to an amazing book called Boy On Ice The Life And Death of Derek Boogaard, He joins Mark and AJ to talk about the book.
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