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I’ll never forget the first time I heard That Was a Crazy Game of Poker. I was at the Drift Inn on Dune Road in the Hamptons, and a bar full of college kids began jumping around like lunatics. I quickly joined in. Flash forward a few years later to O.A.R.’s sold-out MSG gig, and […] Read More »

This piece captured Dwayne at an interesting moment in his career; he had just completed a lengthy return to WWE where he headline back-to-back Wrestlemanias and juiced an intense rivalry with John Cena every week, all while juggling a full filming schedule and prepping for Hercules. During the interview I told him the promos they […] Read More »

When world champion powerlifter Matt Kroczaleski was outed as a transgender woman, Janae Marie, the fitness industry was stunned. “Kroc” wasn’t just the strongest in his weight class, but maintained a reputation for being THE alpha of the sport, enduring notoriously extreme training routines and weight cuts that would kill the average man. Shortly after […] Read More »

At the time I wrote this, I didn’t know what a huge fan I’d become of Henry Cavill’s version of Superman. It was still months away from release and I’d only seen the trailer. Even so, this was a really interesting story and much more than a “how he got in shape for the role” […] Read More »

“I’d rather be lucky than good” is the mantra of golfers who know all too well that a fortuitous bounce can be worth as much as hundreds of hours of practice. I might apply it to this 2012 cover story on Drew Brees. It was a jam-packed weekend. I flew out to San Diego to […] Read More »

There isn’t a soul who follows bodybuilding and the fitness industry who doesn’t have an opinion about Mike O’Hearn. Appropriately for this beast, wherever those opinions fall, they are always STRONG. There are lots of reasons for this. Mike is an enigma, and not just because he’s got a physique that would have been competitive […] Read More »

I’ve been running Robert Irvine Magazine since its inception in 2016. A healthy lifestyle publication featuring motivational stories of uncommon success, it exists primarily as a free digital download (head over to RobertIrvineMagazine.com to get all back issues) except for a single special print edition we put out alongside the release of Family Table in late 2018/early […] Read More »

This was a very big get for M&F at the time. By this point, Strahan had moved to another stratosphere of stardom that put the GQs and Esquires of the world at a distinct advantage over us as the place to have the big photo shoot and feature about his new book. But as he […] Read More »

This wasn’t Terry’s first cover with M&F. That cover piece—which told the incredible story of physical transformation and career renaissance after football—was handled wonderfully by my colleague Joe Wuebben. It was so good I didn’t feel I had many places to go with his second cover. But having spent some time around Terry, I felt […] Read More »