He is also an occasional columnist for the "Outdoor" section of The New York Times and for the Atlantic Salmon Journal.
He also says that he has few "strong, personal" feelings about players and believes that most of his readers understand the "fun" present in his writing.
[2] However, some readers have noted that Bodo, despite his Austrian birth, has a strong and regularly repeated bias in favor of American tennis players, in favor of an American or "midwestern" lifestyle, and in favor of an American style of sports, as contrasted with European tennis players, European sports, and European mores.
[2] Early influences on Bodo's journalistic writing style include Frank Deford, Curry Kirkpatrick, George Plimpton, Norman Mailer, Dave Anderson and Hunter S.
[1] Bodo attended the Catholic college, Seton Hall University (South Orange, NJ) in the late 1960s and early '70s.