A Paducah native who interned at The Paducah Sun at 16, Jerry Brewer has been national sports columnist for The Washington Post since 2015. He was named one of the nation’s top 10 sports columnists by The Associated Press in 2016 and 2017, two of his many awards. After earning a journalism degree at Western Kentucky University and reporting for The Courier-Journal, he became an Orlando Sentinel sports columnist at age 25, then went to The Seattle Times and The Philadelphia Inquirer. He says his approach to sports journalism is: “The game is not the story. The game is a platform to tell a story.” He is the author of Gloria’s Miracle, a book about a young girl’s fight with cancer, supported by her family’s faith, and Pass Judgment: Inside the Seattle Seahawks' Super Bowl XLIX Season and the Play That Dashed a Dream.