As I mentioned here previously, I am practicing with a women's semi-pro tackle football team for the purpose of profiling the team for ESPN the Magazine. The magazine wants a straight account, so I'm doing some ongoing gonzo stuff on The Huffington Post.

Here are my first impressions of the Chicago Force. (And their's, of me.)

The
author spent two weeks working and living with the strange family that
runs a bucolic but financially strapped nine-hole golf course in
Ottawa, Ill. Winner of 2003 Peter Lisagor Award from the American Society of Professional Journalists.

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Tom Chambers is a young graduate of Harvard who recently scrapped
his job as an actuary to make a living playing online poker. But a new
law threatens his livelihood. Can he and others like him hold—or must
they fold?

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