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Dan Wetzel is an author, screenwriter, sports podcaster, and national columnist for Yahoo Sports and Yahoo.com.
He is an executive producer on the Netflix three part docu-series about the life, crimes and death of former New England Patriot Aaron Hernandez. He also appears in the series.
As a screenwriter, he cowrote the 2014 movie Life of a King, starring Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Dennis Haysbert.
As a sports writer, he has worked as the national columnist for Yahoo Sports and Yahoo.com, covering events around the world, including the NFL, college football, the NBA, NASCAR, MLB, NHL, mixed martial arts, men's and women's World Cups and the Olympics. His columns appear In the sports section of Yahoo.com. He's appeared repeatedly in the Best American Sports Writing and been honored more than a dozen times by the Associated Press Sports Editors.
At Yahoo! Sports, he has been part of major investigative stories on pro and college sports, including scandals at Miami, Ohio State, Connecticut, Oregon, USC, various sports agencies and with in the NCAA itself.
Wetzel cohosts a weekly radio show on Yahoo Sports Radio with Pat Forde. He was a fill-in host on The Sports Inferno in Detroit, Michigan on AM 1270. He anchors the twice-weekly Yahoo Sports College Podcast with Pat Forde and Pete Thamel.
Wetzel is a native of Norwell, Massachusetts and a 1994 graduate of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he was editor of the campus newspaper (The Daily Collegian) and majored in political science.
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