John Walters

John Walters started at Sports Illustrated in 1989 at the age of twenty-two; his most recent byline appeared in 2022. A full-time Sports Illustrated staffer for fifteen years, he was also a staff writer at Newsweek for four years and a columnist at NBC Sports. The Notre Dame alum has worked as a producer for NBC Sports at seven Olympics, winning four Sports Emmys. He is the author of The Same River Twice: A Season with Geno Auriemma and the Connecticut Huskies. In 2004 he survived a cross-country RV trek with his coauthor, but has also ventured to all fifty states and all seven continents.