While at UConn he also met his future wife Margaret Zera and moved from the school paper to The Willimantic Daily Chronicle.
While some readers found his consciously literary prose enigmatic and confusing, Twombly defended his style, asserting: "I try to be as literate as I can be.
If you want me to write about you, you’ll have to call me.”[7] During the 1976 Olympics in Montreal, Twombly broke a major story exposing Russian cheating at the games.
He discovered that the Russian pentathlete, Boris Onischenko, had rigged his fencing equipment to allow him to falsely trigger a touch without making any contact on his opponent.
While the rest of the press staff covering the games attended the early morning cycling events, Twombly slept in; he claimed to have only been stirred out of bed by a “ruckus nearby” that turned out to be caused by Onischenko’s accusers.