Robert Strauss

Robert Strauss is the proud father of two daughters who play sports. He has been a staffer at "Sports Illustrated" and has written extensively for the "New York Times." He is an adjunct professor of writing in the English department at the University of Pennsylvania; he also managed to play, just barely, Division III freshman basketball and rugby at Carleton College. He lives with his wife, Susan, and daughters, Ella and Sylvia, in Haddonfield, New Jersey.