On the staff of The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine and a regular panelist on NPR’s It’s Only a Game, Charles P. Pierce has written for, among others, Sports Illustrated, GQ, and Esquire. He is the author of the books Sports Guy, Hard to Forget: An Alzheimer's Story, Moving the Chains: Tom Brady and the Pursuit of Everything and Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free.