Dan Wolken is an award-winning national columnist focused on college sports and a variety of other topics. He's covered six Olympic Games, the NBA, tennis, golf and horse racing. Wolken's prior stops include USA Today for 13 years; the Memphis Commercial Appeal, where he chronicled the rise of the Memphis basketball program under John Calipari; and the Colorado Springs Gazette. He's also the author of "Cocomania," a book for young adults about Coco Gauff's 2023 U.S. Open title. Wolken is a 2001 graduate of Vanderbilt University, where he is now a member of the school's Student Media Hall of Fame.