Dan Wetzel is a senior writer and multimedia journalist for ESPN, working with the Enterprise and Investigative unit.

Wetzel arrived at ESPN in March of 2025 after over two decades at Yahoo Sports where, as a national columnist, he helped build the organization and develop a content brand.

At Yahoo, he broke major stories and investigations, co-hosted the popular College Football Enquirer podcast and covered nearly every major sporting event, including 10 Olympics and five men’s and women’s World Cups. He specialized in crime and court reporting, including cases involving Aaron Hernandez, Larry Nassar and Jerry Sandusky.

He’s won scores of writing awards and has routinely been honored as one of the top 10 columnists in the country by the APSE as well as a finalist for National Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sports Media Association. His work has appeared in multiple editions of the Best American Sportswriting. In 2019 he was inducted into the United States Basketball Writers Hall of Fame.

Wetzel is a New York Times bestselling author. Among his 16 books is “Glory Road” with Coach Don Haskins about the trailblazing 1966 Texas Western basketball team that was turned into a Disney movie of the same name, the ground-breaking “Sole Influence” about shoe companies’ impact on youth basketball and “Death to the BCS” – along with Jeff Passan and Josh Peter – which helped advocate for the creation of a playoff system in college football.

His award-winning “Epic Athletes” series features biographies of sports stars designed for middle school readers. Editions include Stephen Curry, Simone Biles, Patrick Mahomes, Lionel Messi, and Caitlin Clark.

Wetzel has worked extensively in documentaries, including as an executive producer for the 2020 Netflix series “Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez.” As a screenwriter he co-wrote the 2013 film “Life of a King” starring Cuba Gooding Jr. and Dennis Haysbert.

A native of Norwell, Mass. and a graduate of the University of Massachusetts, he lives in Huntington Woods, Mich., with his wife Jan and their two daughters.

(Wetzel photo credit: Melissa Tremblay Platinum Imagery / ESPN)

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