David Fleming

During the last three decades at Sports Illustrated, ESPN The Magazine and ESPN, David Fleming has been one of the industry’s most prolific, versatile, and imaginative longform writers, traveling the globe while penning more than 40 cover stories and numerous groundbreaking pieces on everything from the Super Bowl and Steph Curry to the Musical Chairs World Championship, hockey dentists and the NFL’s obsession with glutes. He has reported in China, Switzerland, England and Mexico and has covered 25 Super Bowls, the Olympics and every major sporting event, including Lightsaber Dueling and Big Foot Calling. Along with the definitive profiles of Bill Belichick, Andy Reid, Michael Vick and many others, Fleming has produced countless innovative pieces on the cross-section of sports, history, science, sociology and culture, including his award-winning piece on Life and Death at the Chicago Marathon and Reche Caldwell's journey from the Patriots to prison, which was the 5th-most read sports story on the Internet in 2014. Fleming’s unique work has earned numerous national awards and a hand-written note from the White House. He is a correspondent for Meadowlark Media and has appeared across all ESPN outlets, including SportsCenter, OTL and E:60, and was a frequent guest, and host, of the ESPNDaily podcast. He has also appeared on HBO, CNN, FOX, Good Morning America, NPR and Howard Stern. Fleming is the author of three books, Who's Your Founding Father? One Man's Epic Quest to Discover the First, True Declaration of Independence (Hachette, May 2023); Breaker Boys: The NFL’s Greatest Team and the Stolen 1925 Championship (Random House, 2008); and Noah's Rainbow: A Father’s Emotional Journey from the Death of his Son to the Birth of his Daughter (Baywood Publishing, 2007). A native of Detroit, Fleming attended Miami University where he was captain of the varsity D1 wrestling team. He and his wife, Kim, live in North Carolina with their daughters.