David Roth is a writer from New Jersey who lives in New York. He contributes to the sports blog
Can't Stop the Bleeding, has written about sports and other things for such publications as the
Wall Street Journal,
Slate, and the
New Republic, and writes the
Kicked Off and
Yakkin' About Football columns at The Awl. He has an essay about shoplifting and the New Jersey Nets in the anthology
Living on the Edge of the World.