BIO

Mitch Goldich is a sports writer, editor and podcaster, who is currently a senior editor at Sports Illustrated. Since 2018, he has worked primarily for The MMQB, the site’s premium NFL vertical, playing an integral part in shaping the staff’s overall coverage plans and editing many of SI’s most-read stories. He joined SI in 2014 as a social media producer and has written on a variety of sports throughout his time there. His stories range from features and profiles to columns and news analysis, including many SI digital covers and one magazine cover story. He also invented the octopus, when the same player scores a touchdown and the ensuing two-point conversion.

Goldich earned an undergraduate journalism degree from Lehigh University in 2009 and a master’s degree in journalism from the Medill School at Northwestern University in 2014.

Goldich has also covered the Olympics extensively as both a writer and podcaster, with a focus not only on the most-covered sports but many of the niche events that make up the Games. His daily podcasts in 2016, 2024 and 2026 (first Very Olympic Today, then SI’s Daily Rings) consistently ranked well in the Apple Podcast charts. In 2018, he covered the Olympics for SI from PyeongChang, South Korea as a writer and editor. In 2012, he was a web producer for NBC Olympics during the London Games.

Before joining SI, he also had work published by The New York Times, Baseball Prospectus, The Huffington Post and espnW, among other outlets. And one of his stories for SI was syndicated by Food & Wine.

He has attended everything from five Super Bowls and two Olympics, to the World Series, NBA Finals and even a sumo wrestling match at Madison Square Garden. He tracks every venue where he’s caught a game on his stadium map.

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