
Reid Forgrave
@reidforgrave
Writer. Author, LOVE, ZAC: Small-Town Football and the Life and Death of an American Boy. @StarTribune. Also: @GQMagazine, @NYTMag, @SINow. Calmer than you are.
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Congrats to Jason Lentz, who won STIHL TIMBERSPORTS US Trohpy this weekend & will rep US at World Trophy event June 10 in the Netherlands. I profiled Lentz earlier this year for NYT Magazine: nytimes.com/2022/12/28/mag…

"Human familiarity is the only pathway — the only pathway — through all the crap." My The Minnesota Star Tribune profile of ellie krug, one of a handful of trans school board members in the nation: startribune.com/trans-woman-el…

Once in a while, I’m humbled to come across people who shift my entire perspective on life. Peter & Aaron Berry - the whole Alabama men’s wheelchair hoops team for UA Adapted Athletics, in fact - will do the same for you. Check out my new Sports Illustrated piece 👇


Psst, Alabama Athletics & Alabama Football: A remarkable sports/human story is happening in Tuscaloosa with UA Adapted Athletics wheelchair basketball. Especially the Berry brothers (Peter Berry). Use that Bama football juice to elevate these guys. Sports Illustrated: si.com/college/2023/0…

Wheelchair basketball is hoops meets football meets rugby, a full-contact bash where fingers are slammed, hands are bloodied and players spill to the ground—only to pop right back up. And Alabama’s Berry brothers are out to dominate, writes Reid Forgrave trib.al/jP0AGyo

This disturbing piece, by Andy Mannix & Renee JonesSchneider, is one of the best pieces of investigative narrative writing you’ll ever read. Bonus: The Minnesota Star Tribune took down paywall for this story. Take some time this weekend and read it.

This summer I travelled across Minnesota to learn more about how the The Minnesota Star Tribune can best deliver for our state. Here's what I learned, in our Sunday The Minnesota Star Tribune: startribune.com/what-ive-learn… I'd love to hear your comments & advice! 1/2


Here, summer is "trauma season." I spent trauma season embedded at HCMC's emergency room, the busiest ER in Minnesota, to document the trauma of dealing with increased trauma of the past few years. The Minnesota Star Tribune: startribune.com/inside-hcmc-mi…

My goodness, this story. Crying in public after finishing it. 👏👏👏 Jenisha Watts

Thoroughly enjoyed getting to know GothamChess in reporting this story for NYT Magazine. The dude has helped change perceptions of chess, and opened up chess to a whole new audience. (Including my 7-year-old kid.)


Thrilled to share this news: Starting Monday, along w/Ashley Nicole Moss & Jawn Gonzalez, I'll be hosting Beyond The Arc, a five-day-a-week NBA podcast, for CBS Sports. We'll be live each day at 2p ET, talking everything you need to know across the NBA. Watch live here:

My first impression of Bronny was that he was tiny. Then I spent the combine trying to see him as clearly as I could. What emerged was a picture of a young man in full — w/a large name to carry, yes, but perhaps the composure & grit to do it successfully: cbssports.com/nba/news/insid…

I spent last week driving around rural Nebraska: the cowboy town where Tim Walz was raised, the tiny farm town of less than 300 where he graduated high school. Jessie Van Berkel & I wrote The Minnesota Star Tribune on how small towns shaped Democratic VP nominee: startribune.com/formed-by-nebr…

Going to the Minnesota State Fair Friday? Stop by the The Minnesota Star Tribune stage at 2 p.m. I'll be interviewing two people from Change The Outcome, a Minnesota organization combatting opioid and fentanyl abuse among youth. Powerful stories, useful for parents.


He was the primary source for the Steele Dossier. It turned his career - and life - upside down. Please read my first story for Rolling Stone, about the years-long saga of Igor Danchenko.

Reposting my first story for Rolling Stone, about Igor Danchenko’s work on the Steele Dossier and how it wrecked his life: Outed as a confidential FBI informant, acquitted at trial, unable to find work.

Wrote on the Bucks brutal start and what it could mean for Giannis' future for CBS Sports NBA, including: -Strong belief across NBA Giannis could ask for a trade if things continue to go badly in Milwaukee -- perhaps before trade deadline -Speculation of Giannis’ rumored
