Stewart Mandel

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Stewart Mandel is a sports writer for SI.com, focusing on college football. He currently writes the "College Football Mailbag" (The Mailbag) column, numerous individual features, and a College Football Blog. He also writes about men's college basketball. He is an AP voter in the NCAA Football AP poll.

Stewart was raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, attending Sycamore High School, and is a graduate of Northwestern University (1998) with a degree in Journalism. He has worked for SI.com since 1999. He currently lives in the Upper West Side of New York City.

[edit] Personal life

Stewart plays on Sporting Wood, a charity softball team in New York City.

In July 2006, Stewart announced on SI.com that he'd added his own MySpace page.

In September 2006, Stewart stayed with some Notre Dame students after asking for a place to stay in his Mailbag column. He reportedly received hundreds of offers from students willing to host him for a night while he watched games and worked.

In 2007, Stewart released his first book: Bowls, Polls, and Tattered Souls: Tackling the Chaos and Controversy that Reign Over College Football.

A practicing Jew, Mandel held off from writing his featured SI.com sports blog during and in observance of Yom Kippur when it fell on a game day during the college football season.^[1]