He graduated from The Hill School in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, attended Yale University for one semester before moving to Los Angeles where he took courses at UCLA and worked as a copy boy at the Los Angeles Examiner.

[2] During his career at Sports Illustrated he covered tennis, baseball, golf, college football and bridge.

[3] In 1983, Bingham left Sports Illustrated to join Time magazine at the request of its Managing Editor, Ray Cave.

His primary topic is PGA golf, but he also muses on life on Cape Cod and running.

"[5] In 1976, with his wife Betty, he co-founded the Port Washington Thanksgiving Day Five Mile race as a fund-raiser for the Save our Sports program for the local high school.