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Andrés Martinez
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Andrés Martinez is a co-director of ASU's Great Game Lab, which explores how sport connects US to the world, and teaches at the Cronkite School.
He is the author of "The Great Game: A Tale of Two Footballs and America's Quest to Conquer Global Sport" (Bloomsbury, April 2026). Martinez grew up in Mexico and was stunned to discover upon arriving in the U.S. as a teenager that our nation wasn't part of the global sporting culture. He's been fascinated ever since with why that was, how that's changing, and what it means for how we engage with the world as Americans. Martinez previously directed the fellows program at New America, and was editorial page editor at The Los Angeles Times, assistant editorial page editor at the New York Times (where he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for a series of editorials on global trade), and editorial writer at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Martinez studied history at Yale and Stanford, and then obtained a J.D. from Columbia University.
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