About Me
Evan Easterling joined The New York Times's Sports desk full time in 2020 after interning at the paper's Print Hub through the Dow Jones News Fund.
As a night editor in Sports, he has edited coverage of several sports and marquee events like the Tokyo Olympics and the Super Bowl. Evan has experience editing live coverage of sports and of seminal moments like the coronavirus pandemic the 2020 United States presidential election.
Evan has also written for The Times, including his coverage of the 2023 Division I women's basketball tournament and his profile of Angel Reese, the LSU basketball star.
He graduated from Temple University in 2019 with a bachelor of arts in journalism, a minor in environmental studies and honors program certification.
During his college career, he covered high school, college and professional sports for outlets like the Philadelphia Inquirer, SB Nation and The Temple News.
In 2018, he won a first-place Student Keystone Press Award from the Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association for sports writing for his story on student-athletes' experiences after Temple's 2014 sports cuts.
He also covered stories like the 2017 NFL Draft, Temple's consideration of an on-campus football stadium, the Bill Cosby mistrial and attendance at university sporting events.
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