<div style="text-align: center !important; margin-bottom: 1.5em; width: 100%;"> <div style="font-size: 1.75em; font-weight: 600; color: #100F0F; line-height: 1.3; text-align: center;">Anthony Lopopolo</div> <div style="font-size: 1.1em; color: #6F6E69; margin-top: 0.2em; text-align: center;">Digital Writer & Journalist</div> </div> I'm a digital writer with more than a decade of experience in sports journalism, content strategy, and newsroom editing. I've worked at theScore and the National Post, covering everything from World Cups to transfer market economics, and I bring the same editorial rigor to audience engagement, push alerts, and coverage planning as I do to long-form storytelling. This is a selection of my best work and my current thoughts and opinions. ## Anthony's Top Reads <div style="margin-bottom: 20px;"> <a href="Napoli's Serie A Title" class="internal-link" style="text-decoration: none; color: inherit; display: block;"> <div style="background: #F2F0E5; border-radius: 6px; padding: 24px 28px; border-left: 5px solid #AF3029; cursor: pointer;"> <span style="font-size: 11px; color: #AF3029; letter-spacing: 1.5px; font-weight: 600;">ORIGINAL REPORTING</span> <div style="font-size: 1.1em; color: #100F0F; font-weight: 600; margin-top: 12px; line-height: 1.3;">More than the mafia: Winning Serie A helped Napoli show the city's true colors</div> <hr style="border: none; border-top: 1.5px solid rgba(175, 48, 41, 0.35); margin: 14px 0;"> <div style="font-size: 18px; color: #6F6E69; margin-bottom: 8px;">theScore · June 2, 2023</div> <div style="font-size: 18px; color: #6F6E69; line-height: 1.5;">Through interviews with locals, fans, and the club's famous stadium announcer, a look at how Napoli's improbable Serie A title became a love letter to a city the rest of Italy forgot.</div> </div> </a> </div> <div style="margin-bottom: 20px;"> <a href="Remembering Maradona" class="internal-link" style="text-decoration: none; color: inherit; display: block;"> <div style="background: #F2F0E5; border-radius: 6px; padding: 24px 28px; border-left: 5px solid #AF3029; cursor: pointer;"> <span style="font-size: 11px; color: #AF3029; letter-spacing: 1.5px; font-weight: 600;">ESSAY</span> <div style="font-size: 1.1em; color: #100F0F; font-weight: 600; margin-top: 12px; line-height: 1.3;">Remembering Maradona: The complicated legacy of Argentina's favorite son</div> <hr style="border: none; border-top: 1.5px solid rgba(175, 48, 41, 0.35); margin: 14px 0;"> <div style="font-size: 18px; color: #6F6E69; margin-bottom: 8px;">theScore · Nov. 26, 2020</div> <div style="font-size: 18px; color: #6F6E69; line-height: 1.5;">A portrait of Diego Maradona that stretches from the shantytowns of Villa Fiorito to the dark side of Naples, tracing the full arc of a man who was equal parts god, rebel, and cautionary tale.</div> </div> </a> </div> <div style="margin-bottom: 20px;"> <a href="What Life is Like in Qatar" class="internal-link" style="text-decoration: none; color: inherit; display: block;"> <div style="background: #F2F0E5; border-radius: 6px; padding: 24px 28px; border-left: 5px solid #AF3029; cursor: pointer;"> <span style="font-size: 11px; color: #AF3029; letter-spacing: 1.5px; font-weight: 600;">INTERVIEW</span> <div style="font-size: 1.1em; color: #100F0F; font-weight: 600; margin-top: 12px; line-height: 1.3;">Inside Qatar: What life is like in the World Cup host nation</div> <hr style="border: none; border-top: 1.5px solid rgba(175, 48, 41, 0.35); margin: 14px 0;"> <div style="font-size: 18px; color: #6F6E69; margin-bottom: 8px;">theScore · Nov. 15, 2022</div> <div style="font-size: 18px; color: #6F6E69; line-height: 1.5;">A social anthropologist's journey behind Qatar's glittering World Cup facade reveals a country of staggering inequality, where migrant workers earning less than $300 a month built a nation they'll never belong to.</div> </div> </a> </div> --- <div style="margin-bottom: 12px;"> <a href="Featured Work" class="internal-link" style="text-decoration: none; color: inherit; display: block;"> <div style="background: #F2F0E5; border-radius: 6px; padding: 16px 22px; border-left: 4px solid #E6E4D9; cursor: pointer;"> <div style="font-size: 1.1em; color: #100F0F; font-weight: 600;">Featured Work</div> <div style="font-size: 18px; color: #6F6E69; margin-top: 4px;">Original reporting, essays, interviews, analysis, audio, and live coverage — organized by type.</div> </div> </a> </div> <div style="margin-bottom: 12px;"> <a href="Commentary" class="internal-link" style="text-decoration: none; color: inherit; display: block;"> <div style="background: #F2F0E5; border-radius: 6px; padding: 16px 22px; border-left: 4px solid #E6E4D9; cursor: pointer;"> <div style="font-size: 1.1em; color: #100F0F; font-weight: 600;">Commentary</div> <div style="font-size: 18px; color: #6F6E69; margin-top: 4px;">A running journal of observations, opinions, and reflections on sports culture.</div> </div> </a> </div> <div style="margin-bottom: 12px;"> <a href="About" class="internal-link" style="text-decoration: none; color: inherit; display: block;"> <div style="background: #F2F0E5; border-radius: 6px; padding: 16px 22px; border-left: 4px solid #E6E4D9; cursor: pointer;"> <div style="font-size: 1.1em; color: #100F0F; font-weight: 600;">About</div> <div style="font-size: 18px; color: #6F6E69; margin-top: 4px;">Background, experience, and contact information.</div> </div> </a> </div> --- Published in theScore, National Post, FourFourTwo, Waking the Red, and Bleacher Report. --- 𝕏: [@sportscaddy](https://x.com/sportscaddy) · [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthony-lopopolo-a1533752/) · Email: [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])