L. Jon Wertheim

Sports journalist Jon Wertheim has been a senior writer at Sports Illustrated since 1996 and reports for CBS's 60 Minutes. He writes books under the name L. Jon Wertheim, including Blood in the Cage, a history of how mixed martial arts grew from fringe fights into a mainstream sport in America, and This Is Your Brain on Sports, a popular science book. He is a tennis commentator, mainly for Tennis Channel, and was executive producer and on-air reporter for the 2025 HBO Max documentary Surviving Ohio State.