Arash Markazi
Arash Markazi is a sports journalist currently writing for Sports Illustrated. He was born in Oklahoma City and raised in Los Angeles, and graduated from Notre Dame High School (Sherman Oaks, Calif.). He attended Arizona State University and later the University of Southern California. He wrote a regular column for the Daily Trojan and also had work published in several magazines and newspapers outside of USC, including SLAM Magazine, XXL, King magazine, the Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Daily News and Associated Press. He graduated with a degree in Print Journalism from the USC Annenberg School for Communication in 2004. Markazi wrote for Sports Illustrated on Campus, appearing on the cover in 2005, and began writing a weekly column for Sports Illustrated’s website, SI.com. Markazi’s intimate and quirky portraits of Wayne Gretzky, Ronaldo, Matt Leinart and Reggie Bush caused the Los Angeles Times to name him one of the Faces to Watch in 2006.
Markazi is also a two-time cancer survivor and a cancer research and support advocate. He battled lymphoma first in 2001 and then relapsed in 2005. Markazi was able to beat the disease after undergoing chemotherapy, a stem-cell transplant and radiation treatments.
