On Riding Out Industry Turmoil

I’ve never met Tom Ziller, not even once. The opportunity never came up because he went about this gig in a different way. He eschewed the typical sports media circuit, preferring to stay a diligent blogger through and through. And as long as I’ve been aware of sports blogging, Ziller has been a respected presence. He was member of FreeDarko, a collective that was very influential among sports writers all the way back in the aughts. He was a founding editor of Sactown Royalty, the best blog devoted to coverage of his hometown Sacramento Kings, a site that remains to this day. Ziller started his GMIB newsletter back in 2014, the year I got hired by ESPN to cover the Warriors full-time as a beat writer, and it’s still going strong, every day, in your inbox.