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Owen Takahashi

Owen Takahashi reports sports news, tennis and mixed martial arts for Featurd Stories. He grew up in Seattle watching late-night matches with the sound low so his parents would not wake, and he still files most of his stories from a spare room with a window and one stubborn plant. He likes a clear headline, a plain first paragraph and the occasional long run along the water.

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Hector Villalobos

Hector Villalobos writes about soccer, golf and Formula 1 for Featurd Stories. He spent years in El Paso driving to small-town fields on Saturday mornings to watch youth and amateur matches, and he still prefers a half-empty ground to a sold-out one. He keeps a paper notebook of every score he covers and refuses to trust a result until he has seen two sources for it.

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Danielle Pruitt

Danielle Pruitt covers the NFL, college football and basketball, the NBA, the WNBA and baseball for Featurd Stories. She grew up in Atlanta in a house where the Sunday game was never negotiable, and she still writes the way she talks about a game with her brothers, loudly and with the box score open. Off the clock she coaches her niece's rec-league basketball team and loses the post-game argument every time.

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