Khari Thompson

Khari Thompson is a sports writer at Boston.com. Previously, he spent three years as a producer for Morning Edition at WBUR, one of Boston's NPR stations. He got his start in media writing about Chicago sports, has covered Chicago Bears training camp, and has worked as a sports data analyst and sports reporter for the South Bend Tribune. In a past life, he studied dinosaur paleontology at the University of Chicago and dug up a Stegosaurus or two in Wyoming. Khari is a major sports head who likes to play a bit himself from time to time, a purveyor of Puerto Rican food, and a fan of “The Lord of the Rings.”