Brian Phillips is a staff writer for The Ringer. He formerly wrote for Grantland and MTV News, and his work has also appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Slate and other publications. His first book, the New York Times–best-selling ‘Impossible Owls,’ was published in 2018.    He was nominated for the 2020 Dan Jenkins Medal for Best Sportswriting Award for “The Two Sides of Diego Maradona,” a piece published by The Ringer on October 1, 2019.        Check it out here: theringer.com/2019/10/1/20891805/diego-maradona-hand-of-god-argentina-world-cup       #brianphillips #sportswriting #danjenkins #moodycollegeofcommunication