Rich O'Malley

Rich is of the firm belief that at every game you attend, something will happen that you have never seen before. Hence, his lifelong obsession with viewing sports live and in person.

A former Executive Editor of the New York Daily News, Rich understood the passion of his city’s sports fans, who voraciously devoured team coverage 24/7, because he was one of them growing up.

Since 1994, he has traveled the country visiting stadiums and arenas, both as part of other trips and as journeys unto themselves.

In that time, he attended a home game for 83 out of the 123 pro sports franchises in the four major U.S. leagues – MLB, NFL, NBA and NHL. During the writing of One Lucky Fan, he successfully embarked on a two-month, all-out sprint to visit the 40 teams he had not yet seen.

Rich graduated from LIU/C.W. Post and Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism. He began his career at Newsday as a high school sports reporter. After brief forays into New York City politics, freelance writing, and teaching journalism at Hofstra and St. John’s University, he landed The News in 2005. Most recently, he was the Deputy Editor of Deadspin.

Rich lives in New York City with his half-blind hobo pup, Alfie, and rescued-from-his-dad's-backyard cat, "Mister" Boo.

He dreams of someday retiring to Monterosso, Italy, where he will probably get bored and decide he wants to visit every team in Serie A.