Jackie "Mac" MacMullan Boyle [1] (born October 7, 1960) is a retired American freelance newspaper sportswriter and NBA columnist for the sports website ESPN.com.
She started her sports journalism career at the age fifteen in order to write only about her high school's girl teams for their local newspaper.
In 2011 MacMullan collaborated with NBA superstar Shaquille O'Neal to write his autobiography titled Shaq Uncut: My Story.
It would be counter-productive to why I’m doing this in the first place.On May 12, 2010, MacMullan and longtime Cleveland Cavaliers radio play-by-play announcer Joe Tait received the Curt Gowdy Media Award from the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
[6] In 2018, MacMullan was a co-editor with Rafe Bartholomew and Dan Klores for the oral history book "Basketball: A Love Story", based on the ESPN documentary series of the same name.