Grant Wahl was remembered for his life as a sportswriter, pursuit of social justice and impact on family, friends and people he mentored.
Wahl grew up in the Kansas City suburb of Mission, received a bachelor’s degree from Princeton in 1996 and became a fact checker at Sports Illustrated. He was promoted to writer and covered college basketball and soccer before switching fulltime to soccer.Article content
Wahl stayed at SI until he was fired in 2021 during a time of the magazine’s retrenchment, then started his own website. Wahl also had a Planet Futbol podcast. “It was not easy to be Grant’s editor even then,” Samuels said of their Princeton days. “Every word that Grant Wahl wrote was gold. And I know that’s true for all of you writers, but for Grant, he would push back on any word we wanted to edit, ever.”
Wolff recalled “the high pitch his voice took on when he recounted an absurdity committed by some blazer-wrapped buffoon of world soccer.”
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