Alexander Wolff

Alexander Wolff is a writer for Sports Illustrated and former owner of the Vermont Frost Heaves of the Premier Basketball League (PBL).

This article is about the writer. For the British officer, see Alexander Wolff (soldier). For the musician, see Alex Wolff.

He has written several books about basketball, among them Big Game, Small World (ISBN 0-446-52601-0), a look at basketball around the world. His most notable and notorious work was a feature article in Sports Illustrated from June 12, 1995, entitled "Why the University of Miami Should Drop Football." In it, Wolff wrote an open letter to then University of Miami president Edward T. Foote II claiming that the Hurricanes were a "disease" that had ruined the school's image and needed to be at least temporarily shut down. Wolff wrote a follow-up letter in 2011 to the then-current UM president, Donna Shalala, following the Nevin Shapiro booster controversy.[1] Endpapers: A Family Story of Books, War, Escape, and Home, Wolff's memoir of his father and grandfather, and observations drawn from his year living in Berlin, appeared in 2021.[2]

References
  1. "Registered & Protected by MarkMonitor". vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com. Archived from the original on April 15, 2008.
  2. Hammer, Joshua (April 8, 2021). "A Ghost in the War Machine". New York Review of Books. Vol. 68, no. 6. pp. 28–31. ISSN 0028-7504. Retrieved March 28, 2021.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)


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