Hi! I'm Mary. I'm a journalist and filmmaker who spends most of my time poking around the intersection of sports and business.

I also hold a private investigator's license in California because apparently I wasn't solving enough mysteries through journalism alone.

I've written a few books including a couple of New York Times bestsellers: "The Monopolists" (because who doesn't love a good board game conspiracy?) and "The Longest Race," which I co-authored with Olympian Kara Goucher. I also co-created and co-hosted the audio series "Twisted: The Story of Larry Nassar," tackling one of sport's most important reckonings.

On the film side, I've worked as an Emmy-nominated producer with NBC at the Olympics (nothing will humble your gym visits more) and as a story editor on HBO's documentary "BS High," which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. I've co-directed a feature documentary about pickleball and am currently bringing my Vanity Fair reporting about unrest in the French bulldog world to life as a feature documentary, among other zany projects.

My writing appears in The New Yorker, Esquire, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, The New York Times, and other places kind enough to let me loose with a keyboard. Previously, I was on staff at the Times sports desk and The Wall Street Journal.

I started reporting as a teenager in Eugene, Ore., at the Register-Guard and was a wildly mediocre athlete.