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Matt Seeger

Matt Seeger

Retired sportswriter and author with master's degree in magazine journalism from Syracuse University; former sports reporter for the Cortland Standard and Vacaville Reporter.

Jul 13, 2026

1:46
What's the story behind that?
1:49
Okay, well, it's sort of a traumatic story, but let me just take it from the point of graduating from Cornell.
1:57
I didn't know what I wanted to do with my life, but I knew I liked writing sports.
2:02
because I had done it for the Cornell Daily Sun.
2:05
So I applied to journalism school.
2:07
And you have to remember, this was kind of the heyday for journalism school, because we had just had Woodward and Bernstein exposing President Nixon, you know, and uh, all the president's men had come out as a book and a movie.
2:23
And a lot of kids wanted to be come the next word when Bernstein, I just wanted to be the next sports writer.

7 MINS LATER

9:54
And

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