My name is Shaker Samman. I’m an Editorial Assistant at The Ringer. In the past, I’ve worked for MTV News, the Tampa Bay Times, and The Times Herald, and have written for sites like Raleigh & Company, The Classical, and PolitiFact, among others. You can find some of my work below:
The Ringer
- Anatomy of a Goal, July 2, 2018
- Belgium’s Last Stand, June 22, 2018
- Why Isn’t Thomas Müller One of Soccer’s Biggest Superstars?, June 16, 2018
- Stan Van Gundy’s Exit Signals the End of the Coach/GM, May 7, 2018
- The Same System That Made UVA a Powerhouse Turned It Into a Punch Line, March 16, 2018
- Collin Sexton Is the Best One-Man Show in March Madness, March 12, 2018
- Joel Berry II and Grayson Allen Are Entering Their Final Act, March 2, 2018
- Move Over, Bear Bryant: Nick Saban’s Coaching Legacy Is Now Second to None, January 9, 2018
- How The Browns Went 0-16, December 31, 2017
- Disintegration Hoops: An Ode to Virginia-Wisconsin and Ugly, Slow Basketball, November 28, 2017
- Give Baker Mayfield the Damn Heisman Already, November 12, 2017
- A Boston University Study May Lead to a Way to Diagnose CTE in Living Patients, September 26, 2017
- Syria Is Just Four Games Away From Qualifying for the World Cup, September 5, 2017
- Penn State’s Trace McSorley Is College Football’s Master of the Deep Ball, August 30, 2017
- The End of the Justin Verlander Era in Detroit, July 28, 2017
Duke Chronicle
- Love Thy Neighbor: A Championship in Chapel Hill, April 4, 2017
- Worth a shot: Scenes from the end of the walk-up line, February 9, 2017
- Is Grayson Allen dirty? Comparing the superstar guard to past Blue Devil villains, December 2, 2016
- Birth of a tradition: How ‘Everytime We Touch’ became Duke’s unofficial anthem, October 4, 2016
Raleigh & Company
- NCAA Tournamentapalooza 2017, March 14, 2017
- NCAA Tournamentapalooza 2016, March 15, 2016
- The Once and Future Kings of Music, October 2, 2015
- NCAA Tournamentapalooza 2015, March 17, 2015
- Diary of a Juice Cleansing Man, January 7, 2015
Tampa Bay Times
- Seminole Heights community garden robbed in fishy tilapia heist, August 5, 2015
- Family, friends remember St. Petersburg’s Josh Greenberg, co-founder of Grooveshark, July 22, 2015
- For Temple Terrace police officer, Arabic is key, July 16, 2015
Everywhere Else
- Running on Empty: scenes from the last day of the worst campaign in American history, Duke Political Review, November 8, 2016
- Barack Obama’s Last Stand, Duke Political Review, November 4, 2016
- The Next Michigan Man, The Classical, December 23, 2014
- Sen. Kay Hagan says Thom Tillis refuses to say what he would do to combat ISIS, PolitiFact, October 7, 2014