Aaron Gleeman

Today, Gleeman, at the young age of twenty-four, may be the envy of many newspaper sportswriters. Sports Illustrated has called his Twins blog one of the best in the country, and it has led to a full-time sportswriting gig for nbcsports.com and rotoworld.com, along with syndication on several other sites, including usatoday.com. He recently bought a new house in Minnetonka, where he often writes from the comfort of his bed in front of a large TV. His blog, now read by 100,000 fans a month, is savvy and opinionated and fortified with reams of in-depth statistics.

“My viewpoint is very clearly as an outsider, because I’ve never been in a press box or locker room,” Gleeman says. “When I put forth an opinion on something, good or bad, I always try to base it on evidence, fact, and logic, which I think is often lacking in the world of sports columnists.”
And what about his dream of being a newspaper sportswriter? “Given the state of the newspaper industry,” he says, “I feel just fine about where I’m at and what I’m doing.”