Wendell Maxey is the Editor of Beyond The Beat, providing extended coverage across Oregon sports with featured writers covering the Portland Trail Blazers, Portland Timbers, Oregon State Beavers, Oregon Duck, University of Portland Pilots, the Portland State Vikings, Willamette University, and minor league baseball with the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes and Eugene.

A freelance writer currently contributing to Page 2 on ESPN.com and SLAM Magazine/SLAMonline, Wendell has also appeared on NBA TV, NBA Radio on SIRIUS and ESPN Radio among others.

An active member of the Professional Basketball Writers Association, his writing has been also notably featured with USA Today, FOXSports.com, NBA.com, CBSSports.com and NCAA.com. He also possesses newspaper experience with the Reno Gazette-Journal, Ames Tribune, Portland Sentinel and remains a frequent contributor to the Northwest Examiner, serving Northwest Portland.

A former NBA Senior Writer for HOOPSWORLD, Wendell has covered the league for the past seven seasons in New York during the Larry Brown and Isiah Thomas era from 2005-'07, New Jersey with the Nets postseason runs in '06 and '07 and now with the Portland Trail Blazers and their Rip City revival. 

In addition to covering the NBA, Wendell contributes to the Oregon Encyclopedia Project, sponsered by the Oregon Historical Society, and has previously written about high school basketball, college football and minor league baseball.

Wendell is also in the never-ending process of concluding the manuscript for his first book, co-authored with Portland State University Professor William Cornett, on the Negro Leagues 1946 West Coast Baseball Association.

Wendell can be easily reached at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it  or http://twitter.com/w_maxey

Currently Featured With:

ESPN.com/Page 2, Contributing Writer (April, 1- present)

SLAM Magazine/SLAMonline, Contributing Writer (October, 09 - present)

Previous Writing Experience:

Ames Tribune, Contributing Writer (April, 10)

USA Today, Contributing Writer (January, 10 - March, 10)

FOXSports.com, Contributing Writer (December, 09, and  April, 10)

CBSSports.com, Contributing Writer (December, 09)

NCAA.com, Contributing Writer (December, 09)

NBA.com, Contributing Writer (November, 09)

The Portland Sentinel, Contributing Writer (November, 09 - March, 10)

Oregon Encyclopedia Project / Oregon Historical Society, Contributing Writer (November, 09)

Portland Family Magazine, Contributing Writer (September, 09 - April, 10)

HOOPSWORLD and HOOPSWORLD Magazine, Senior NBA Writer (January, 04 - September, 09) / Executive Editor (July, 07- June, 08)

Reno Gazette-Journal, Featured Writer (July, 09)

Sports Northwest Magazine, Featured Writer (June, 09)

Northwest Examiner, Contributing Writer (May, 08- August, 09, August, 10)

Associated Content.com, Contributing Writer (March, 06 - July, 08)

OregonLive.com, Featured Writer (April, 08 and May, 09) 

CBS Sports.com, Featured Writer (August, 07 NBA 2007-08 Preview Magazine)

SWISH Magazine, Contributing Writer (October, 06- May, 07)

Collegehoops.net, Contributing Writer (July, 03 - January, 04)

On-Air Experience:

TV - NBA TV; Comcast SportsNet Northwest - "Trail Blazers Courtside"; Comcast SportsNet Northwest - "Talkin' Ball"; KPTV- Fox 12, "Oregon Sports Final"; 

Radio - NBA Radio on SIRIUS; 95.5 FM "The Game"; KRLD 1080AM-Dallas; SportsRadio 1470AM-Tampa, Florida; Inferno Radio/Podcast- New York; Sportsline WBAL Radio 1090AM- Baltimore; ESPN Radio 1420 Honolulu.

Education:

Portland State University, 2003- Major: BS Liberal Studies/Minor: Black Studies

Seattle Pacific University- Writers Conference, 2003

Other:

Member of the Professional Basketball Writers Association, since 2007

Partnering with Sports Media Exchange and TeamWork Press

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