Chuck Culpepper, an unreconstructed nomad, has lived in 10 states and four countries including all three named “United:” States, Kingdom, Arab Emirates. He joined ESPN as a writer in the Investigative and Enterprise Unit in April of 2026.

He has written from 10 Olympics and one camel race, four World Cups and one tractor pull, 61 college football playoff or bowl games and one mule-race training ground, 25 tennis majors and one motocross race, 51 golf majors and two taekwondo events, 25 men’s or women’s Final Fours and one round-the-world sailing race, 12 Super Bowls and croquet pitch.

Raised in Suffolk, Va., and employed part-time at age 14 writing Little League wrap-ups for the local Suffolk Sun, he has written sports for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, the National Sports Daily, the Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader, the Oregonian, Newsday, the Los Angeles Times, The National (Abu Dhabi), Sports On Earth and the Washington Post (from 2014-2026).

He has received 11 Associated Press Sports Editors nominations and has won for stories about a high school kicker who missed an extra point to end a championship game, a football player who wrestled alligators on trips home to Florida, and the progress of female athletes in the Middle East. His one book, titled “Up Pompey” in the United Kingdom and “Bloody Confused” in the United States, about roaming England on trains to follow a club (Portsmouth) in the English Premier League, received a nomination for William Hill Sports Book of the Year.

He once reached all six inhabited continents within a 133-day span. If flying deteriorates the brain, he’s doomed.

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