Mark Cofman is a 30-year newspaper veteran, a freelance writer, and an adjunct professor at Endicott College in Beverly, Massachusetts. He formerly worked for the Fitchburg Sentinel and the Marlboro Enterprise, was a beat writer and editor for the Boston Herald, and served as editor of the Boston Globe's weekly sports publication, OT. He lives in Hull, Massachusetts. Tony Massarotti is a sportswriter for the Boston Globe and cohosts a sports talk radio show on WBZ-FM. He formerly covered the Boston Red Sox for the Boston Herald. He is the recipient of the 2001 National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association's Massachusetts Sportswriter of the Year award.