Kent Babb covers sports for the Washington Post and is the author of Not a Game: The Incredible Rise and Unthinkable Fall of Allen Iverson. His journalism has received national praise; he has won more than a dozen awards from the Associated Press Sports Editors and received the Poynter Institute’s Van McKenzie Cup. His writing has twice appeared in the Best American Sportswriting series. He lives in Washington D.C. with his wife and daughter.