Sports Writer Based in New York
Kavitha A. Davidson is a sports writer based in New York. She’s currently a national sports and culture writer for The Athletic and host of the podcast Culture Calculus.
She recently appeared as a correspondent on HBO’s Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel. She also currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Yogi Berra Museum. She was previously the host and editorial director of The Lead, The Athletic’s flagship daily podcast. She was previously a columnist and feature writer for espnW and ESPN the Magazine. Before that, she wrote a daily sports column for Bloomberg with a heavy focus on the intersection of sports and business, culture, race, and gender.
Her first book, “Loving Sports When They Don’t Love You Back,” co-authored with Jessica Luther, was published in September 2020 by the University of Texas Press. A native New Yorker, she attended Columbia University, where she was the sports editor of the Columbia Daily Spectator.
