After graduating from New York University with a degree in journalism and political science in 1983,[1] Shaun Assael went to work as a crime and court reporter for newspapers in Florida.
[17] Dubbed the magazine's "longtime steroid expert"[18] by the Wall Street Journal, Assael has covered some of the sport world's most notorious scandals involving performance-enhancing drugs.
[19][20] On December 13, 2007, Assael broke the news that Yankees pitcher Roger Clemens would be implicated in the Mitchell Report in a story dictated to his editor from the backseat of a taxi.
His 2015 Outside the Lines investigation of the suspicious hanging death of a North Carolina teen Lennon Lacy[24] won the Bronze World Medal for best sports journalism at the 2016 New York Festival TV & Film Awards,[25] third place in the 2016 National Headliner Award for sports or human interest feature,[26] and a Silver Radio winner for documentary on social issues from the 2016 World's Best Radio Competition.
His most recent book, The Murder of Sonny Liston: Las Vegas, Heroin, and Heavyweights was published by Blue Rider Press in October 2016.