Mark Titus (born June 25, 1987 in Overland Park, KS) is an American author, podcast host, and former walk-on basketball player at Ohio State.
[3] He played on the same AAU team as future NBA players Daequan Cook, Eric Gordon, Josh McRoberts, Mike Conley, and Greg Oden.
[4] In the fall of 2006, Titus enrolled at Ohio State University, where he planned on attending medical school and working as a student manager for the basketball team.
[3] In the Buckeyes' season opener, Titus received three minutes of playing time and made each of his two free throw attempts.
[5] Following his college career and popularity of viral videos on social media, Mark was invited to participate in Harlem Globetrotters tryouts.
You need to be an entertainer and his stuff on his blogs and his Twitter feed are hysterical and you have to be a good person, which we’ve heard he is.”[7] Mark did not make the team.
[16] After graduating, Jimmy Kimmel and Bill Simmons—being fans of "Club Trillion"—flew Titus to Hollywood and had him sign with their agent James "Babydoll" Dixon.
[4][17] In 2012, Titus began writing for Grantland, a sports journalism and pop culture website affiliated with ESPN and run by Bill Simmons.
[27] Titus was unable to profit from shirt sales as a student-athlete, so he instead began donating the proceeds to A Kid Again, a charity providing recreational therapy for children with life-threatening illnesses.