About Connor
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Connor is a multimedia journalist currently based in New York. He works as a digital producer and writer for Sports Illustrated (SI.com), primarily focusing on its Major League Baseball coverage. As a 2017 graduate of Syracuse University, Connor studied broadcast and digital journalism in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. He spent his final year at SU as the Syracuse men’s basketball beat writer for The Daily Orange, the independent student newspaper of Syracuse, New York. He contributed to the paper in every one of his eight semesters, serving as an assistant sports copy editor, assistant sports editor and sports digital editor.
In Connor’s time at home from school, he worked at San Francisco’s two biggest sports media outlets: KNBR-AM 680 and Comcast SportsNet Bay Area. Working in CSN Bay Area’s news department during summer 2015, Connor logged film and wrote short scripts in an iNews rundown. He infamously interned for KNBR’s Murph and Mac show in summer 2014, and worked as a digital media intern for KNBR.com in summer 2015. In his third stint with KNBR, Connor created his own position as a San Francisco Giants beat writer in summer 2016. He covered nearly 40 games, including the MLB All-Star Game in San Diego, for KNBR.com and appeared multiple times on-air to discuss the Giants.
Before writing struck a chord in Connor, sports were always a focal point of his life. He spent plenty of nights fighting his mother to watch the final out of Giants games as the clock trickled past 10 p.m. Connor cycled through desires of becoming a baseball player, umpire and broadcaster before settling on writing about his favorite sport. He collaborated with ESPN senior writer David Schoenfield in Oct. 2013 to create West Coast Bias, the San Francisco Giants blog affiliate in ESPN’s SweetSpot network. He ran the site with his best friend during the 2014 and 2015 seasons, garnering more than 200,000 views on game coverage, news stories and columns.
He is unquestionably an Apple fanatic who has read and re-read Steve Jobs’ biography. Connor’s always in search of the next great turkey, bacon, avocado sandwich and hopes to eventually write an oral history on what nearly became the most epic play in World Series history.
