Victor Pete Thamel (born 1977) is an American

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for

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. He previously worked for

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, and the

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Early life

Thamel was born in Ware, Massachusetts to Peter V. Thamel. He was the sports editor at the high school paper. Thamel graduated from Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications in 1999, where he majored in magazine. He began his sportswriting career during college at Syracuse, he served as sports editor of

The Daily Orange ''The Daily Orange'', commonly referred to as ''The D.O.'', is an independent student newspaper published in Syracuse, New York. It is free and published daily during the Syracuse University academic year. It was one of the first college papers ...

for three years. During his time at Syracuse, Donovan McNabb was the

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's quarterback, and

Jim Boeheim James Arthur Boeheim Jr. ( ; born November 17, 1944) is an American college basketball coach who is the head coach of the Syracuse Orange men's team of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). Boeheim has guided the Orange to ten Big East Conference ...

's men's basketball team reached the national championship game in 1996.

Career

After graduation, Thamel began covering college basketball for

The Post-Standard ''The Post-Standard'' is a newspaper serving the greater Syracuse, New York, metro area. Published by Advance Publications, it and sister website Syracuse.com are among the consumer brands of Advance Media New York, alongside NYUp.com and ''The ...

in Syracuse, New York. Thamel joined the

in 2003 and spent nine years there as the national college sports reporter. In 2006, the New York Times nominated him for a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. He left the Times in 2012 for

as a senior writer, covering college football and basketball. Thamel joined

in 2017 and covered college sports and the NFL. He was hired by

in 2022. Thamel is a member of the Football Writers Association of America and has won numerous FWAA writing awards. He has also won several Associated Press Sports Editors (APSE) awards, including first place for beat reporting in 2017 and breaking news in 2011. He considers Peter King at

and Joe Drape from the

his biggest mentors.

Personal life

Thamel lives in

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. He got married in March 2021.

References

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