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 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. He also invented the octopus, when the same player scores a touchdown and the ensuing two-point conversion.

Goldich earned a master’s degree in journalism from the Medill School at Northwestern University in 2014. He completed the video/broadcast concentration and was a member of the Sports Immersion Program. He also earned an undergraduate journalism degree from Lehigh University in 2009.

Goldich has also covered the Olympics extensively, including daily podcasts and newsletters that focus not only on the most-covered sports but many of the niche events that make up the Games. During the 2016 Rio Olympics, he co-hosted a daily podcast from the U.S. that peaked at No. 6 in the iTunes sports podcast rankings, and his daily podcast in 2024 again ranked highly. In 2018, he covered Olympics from PyeongChang, South Korea as a writer and editor. In 2012, he was a web producer for NBC Olympics during the London Games.

Goldich has also produced and co-hosted NFL podcasts for The MMQB, and was the host of Next Question, Sports Illustrated‘s weekly live trivia game show, which ended because of remote work and changes to SI’s studio availability. Before joining SI, he also had work published by The New York Times, Baseball Prospectus, The Huffington Post and espnW. And one of his stories for SI Eats 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. You can see every venue where he’s caught a game on his stadium map.

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