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NOSTALGIA
Sept. 1, 2021 Here’s how the night began …. I’m sitting in Boston’s TD Garden, wearing a mask and gazing up at the rafters and the Celtics championship banners while I wait for The Eagles concert to begin. Lydia is also masked. My hand rests on her legs – long, smoo...
BOOK TOUR FALL 2021
August 19,2021 When The Dynasty was published last fall I couldn’t do traditional book signings due to COVID. No bookstores were able to host in-store events. To improvise, I worked with dozens of booksellers throughout New England. We scrapped in-person author talks and question-and-answer session...
BRUUUUUUCE
This is from my journal. July 1, 2021 Last night I saw “Springsteen on Broadway.” It’s the first full-length show on stage since the COVID-19 pandemic shuttered Broadway theaters 470-something days ago. Proof of vaccination was required to enter the St. James Theater. I went with my book edit...
'POISONED' DOCUMENTARY
Today, Variety magazine reported that my book Poisoned, which was published in 2011, will be the basis of a television documentary.
SHOW TIME
Jan 8, 2021 When I finished writing Steve Young’s biography and before spending two years with the Patriots organization while writing The Dynasty, I teamed up with my longtime friend Armen Keteyian to write Tiger Woods’s biography. It was a three-year odyssey. Then, one week be...
IT'S HERE
December 22, 2020 Today HBO released the trailer for TIGER — the 2-part documentary premiering on HBO and HBO Max on January 10th and 17th. It was the opportunity of a lifetime to write Tiger’s biography with Armen Keteyian. It’s been a privilege these past two years to work with such a talented gr...
ONE FOR THE BOOKS
Dec. 15th, 2020 The other day I was at a book signing for The Dynasty. A man in a Tom Brady jersey handed me his copy and asked: “Of the all the books you’ve written, which one’s your favorite?”
BOOK TOUR
The COVID pandemic shuttered local bookstores throughout the country. According to the New York Times, more than one independent bookstore has permanently closed each week since the pandemic began. Those stores aren’t coming back.
ALL IN THE FAMILY
Last summer I had the opportunity to go to Israel with a group of past and present New England Patriots players. Team owner Robert Kraft was our host. Kraft has a habit of taking his players to the Holy Land during the offseason. Over the years he’s also taken many NFL Hall of Famers, from Jim Brow...
HBO DOCUSERIES AIRING IN DECEMBER
Global golfing icon Tiger Wood’s journey through success, scandal, injuries and one of the most amazing comebacks in sports history will be detailed in a two-part documentary series from HBO Sports and executive producer Alex Gibney.
TV MINI-SERIES
Rodney Barnes To Pen ‘Tiger Woods’ Scripted Miniseries, Entertainment 360 Comes On Board
THE DYNASTY
Jeff Benedict’s Inside Account of the New England Patriots Dynasty to be Published by Avid Reader Press in September New York, NY, May 19, 2020—The New England Patriots, the most dominant franchise in professional team sports over the past twenty years, are the subject of a new book by...
A GOOD COWBOY
T. Boone Pickens (courtesy of T. Boone Pickens) Today, T. Boone Pickens passed away at age 91. Eight years ago I had the privilege of shadowing him. Through that process, we became friends. He graciously hosted my family at his Texas ranch on numerous occasions. In his memory, I’m sharing here a sho...
PROUD
In the preface to his opus “The Best and the Brightest” (the definitive account of America’s involvement in Vietnam), journalist David Halberstam shared the secret to writing a bestseller: “A book that burns in your belly — something that has to be written before you c...
WRITE YOUR STORY
I love writing. I do it every day. And I never know where the stories may end up. Often, I go on a journey with the people I write about. The picture at the top of this post was taken while I was interviewing New England Patriots linebacker Kyle Van Noy back when he was a junior at Brigham Young Un...
