Hello! Thanks so much for stopping by my site.

I’m a sports reporter who writes about the intersection of sports, culture, and politics. In other words, I’m a sports reporter who never sticks to sports.

I’m currently a freelance sports reporter and a co-host of a feminist sports podcast with some of the most brilliant women in the business, Burn it All Down.

Previously, I was the sports reporter at ThinkProgress for four years.

I am working on a book on the current wave of female athlete activism with Beacon Press.

My writing has also appeared in USA Today, Vice Sports, Bleacher Report, Tennis Magazine, and Sports on Earth, and I have been interviewed on NPR, MSNBC, CBC, and CNN, among others.

That’s the short story, but I’m never good at stopping there.

I grew up as a die-hard Carolina Panthers and Tar Heels basketball fan in Greensboro, North Carolina, and went to college at New York University, where I studied film and television production at the Tisch School of the Arts.

After school I took a winding path that included stints working on America’s Next Top model, teaching screenwriting, and even nannying. But, eventually, my passion for sports and for writing took over.

In 2012, I wrote a historical fiction novel, Titanic: The Tennis Story, based on the true story of two Hall-of-Fame tennis players who survived the sinking of the Titanic, met on board the rescue ship Carpathia, and played each other in the U.S. Open two years later. The book was written about in a Sports Illustrated Magazine feature by Jon Wertheim, USA Today (print and online), CNN, and the The Tennis Channel, among others.

I wrote regularly about tennis as a columnist for Bleacher Report and on a popular tennis website I co-founded, The Changeover, and soon took the leap full-time into freelance sports writing. In addition to my tennis coverage, I wrote columns on the Sochi Olympics, NASCAR, golf, college basketball, and horse racing, and began writing regularly about the intersection of sexism and sports, particularly as it relates to media attention and violence against women.

I moved to Washington, D.C. in the fall of 2015 to begin working at ThinkProgress. Here, I have extensively covered this age in athlete activism, brain injuries in sports, how sports leagues and universities handle domestic violence and sexual assault, the implementation of Title IX, the quest for equal pay, and the advancement of LGBTQ rights in sports. I have also covered D.C.’s WNBA team, the Washington Mystics, for various outlets — most recently for The Athletic.

My article “The Disturbing Details of the Derrick Rose Gang Rape Case,” received more than one million page views, and was named one of Medium’s Top 10 articles of 2017. The next year, my article “Then and Now: Cam Newton and the ongoing plight of the black quarterback,” was named as a notable selection in the 2017 edition of Best American Sports Writing, and my article, “Michigan State hasn’t faced consequences for enabling the biggest sex abuse scandal in U.S. sports” was a notable selection in the 2018 edition of the book. I hope to amass more accolades soon, as that seems like a very nice way to end a biography.

I tweet frequently @linzsports, and am available by e-mail at lindsayjgibbs@gmail.com. I am available for select freelance writing assignments, plus television and radio interviews, panel and speaking appearances.