Victor Pete Thamel (born 1977) is an American sports reporter for ESPN. He previously worked for Yahoo Sports, Sports Illustrated, and The New York Times.
Pete Thamel
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Born | (1977-11-16) November 16, 1977 (age 46)
Ware, Massachusetts, U.S.
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Education | Syracuse University |
Occupation | Sports reporter |
Thamel was born in Ware, Massachusetts to Peter V. Thamel.[1] He was the sports editor at the high school paper.[2]
Thamel graduated from Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications in 1999, where he majored in magazine.[3] He began his sportswriting career during college at Syracuse, he served as sports editor of The Daily Orange for three years.[2][4][5] During his time at Syracuse, Donovan McNabb was the Orange's quarterback, and Jim Boeheim's men's basketball team reached the national championship game in 1996.[1]
After graduation, Thamel began covering college basketball for The Post-StandardinSyracuse, New York.[2][6]
Thamel joined The New York Times in 2003 and spent nine years there as the national college sports reporter. In 2006, The New York Times nominated him for a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. He left the Times in 2012 for Sports Illustrated as a senior writer, covering college football and basketball.[7][8] Thamel joined Yahoo Sports in 2017 and covered college sports and the NFL.[9][10]
He was hired by ESPN in 2022.[1][11]
Thamel is a member of the Football Writers Association of America and has won numerous FWAA writing awards.[11] He has also won several Associated Press Sports Editors (APSE) awards,[12] including first place for beat reporting in 2017 and breaking news in 2011. He considers Peter KingatSports Illustrated and Joe Drape from The New York Times his biggest mentors.[2]
Thamel lives in South Boston.[1] He got married in March 2021.[13]