I’m Ian Casselberry, a freelance writer living in Johnson City, Tennessee. Previous stops have included Asheville, North Carolina and Iowa City. I’m a native of Ann Arbor, Michigan where I lived most of my life.

This is my often-neglected personal website and blog, where I generally write about whatever intrigues me (especially when it exceeds 280 characters).

Currently, I’m a contributing writer for Yahoo Sports focusing on professional and college sports.

I enjoy writing about movies, sports, pop culture, current events, media and personal experiences. My ambition here is to post three to four times a week, though I rarely achieve that output. The Podcass is my tiny little piece of the vast podcasting space.

Most recently, I covered breaking news and trending topics for Sports Illustrated, and sports media for Awful Announcing, and appeared twice a week on WISE Sports Radio in Asheville, North Carolina to provide baseball and NFL analysis. As a contributor, I helped cover the Los Angeles Dodgers’ 2020 World Series run for SI.com and wrote movie reviews for local alternative newsweekly, Mountain Xpress.

I’ve previously been a contributor to Yahoo! Sports baseball blog, Big League Stew, a lead writer for Bleacher Report‘s Major League Baseball coverage, and a writer for MLive.com’s Detroit Tigers coverage with a weekly column, compiling bi-weekly daily links posts, and helping moderate live game blogs.

Prior to those gigs, I was the managing editor of Bless You Boys, SB Nation’s Detroit Tigers blog. My work on the Tigers led to features on ESPN.com, USA Today Sports Weekly, Yahoo! Sports, and Maple Street Press’ Tigers Annual. 

I have worked in traditional media, as a feature writer and columnist for the now-defunct Motor City Sports magazine. Much of my work covered the 2006 Detroit Tigers, who went to the World Series. I’ve also covered the Detroit Pistons and Detroit Lions, in addition to college and prep sports.

This blogging thing began for me in 2004, with the site Fried Rice Thoughts. A year later, I authored a Detroit-centric sports blog titled Sweaty Men Endeavors (the sports blog with the slightly gay name), which was featured in the Metro Times in December of 2005.

Someday, I will write that novel, which is presumably why I attended the University of Iowa (and ran up a bunch of loans), studying with its Writers Workshop.

Thank you for reading, and I hope to keep you interested enough to check back regularly.