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Melissa Segura

Melissa Segura

Joined: Dec 11, 2013

Staff Writer, Sports Illustrated Staff writer Melissa Segura made an immediate impression at Sports Illustrated. As an undergraduate intern in 2001, her reporting helped reveal that Danny Almonte, star of the Little League World Series, was 14, two years older than the maximum age allowed in Little League. Segura has since covered a range of sports for SI, from baseball to mixed martial arts, with a keen eye on how the games we play affect the lives we lead. In a Sept. 10, 2012, cover story titled, The Other Half of the Story, Segura chronicled the plight of NFL wives and girlfriends caring for brain-injured players. In 2009 she broke the story that MLB had discovered that Washington Nationals prospect Esmailyn Gonzalez, who had been signed to a team-record $1.4 million bonus in 2006, was really Carlos Alvarez and he was four years older than he had claimed to be. Segura graduated with honors from Santa Clara University in 2001 with a B.A. in Spanish studies and communications (with an emphasis in journalism). In 2011, she studied immigration issues as a New York Times fellow at UC-Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism. Before joining SI full-time in 2002, she worked for The Santa Fe New Mexican and covered high school sports for The Record (Bergen County, N.J.). Segura says Gary Smith is the SI staffer she would most want to trade places with for a day. "While most noted for his writing style, having worked alongside Gary, I've come to realize he is an even more brilliant reporter than he is a writer."

Tim Kennedy's ability to cope with contrasts keeps him sane
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Tim Kennedy's ability to cope with contrasts keeps him sane

But what the elder Kennedy didn't know is that, in small pockets of the globe, a new sport was emerging. "The dark ages," as Kennedy called them. A show in a

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UFC's Perez trail blazing Mexican presence in MMA
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UFC's Perez trail blazing Mexican presence in MMA

It's a promise he'll put in ink.

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MMA fighter? Breaking Bad actor? Keith Jardine little of both

ALBUQUERQUE -- Long before the casting director called his name for his Breaking Bad audition, veteran MMA fighter Keith Jardine had already begun his act.His

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About to make her UFC debut, women's MMA pioneer Kedzie looks back
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About to make her UFC debut, women's MMA pioneer Kedzie looks back

Looking back, my journey in MMA has been me tripping every two feet but I wouldn't trade places with Ronda Rousey. I wouldn't trade places with Meisha Tate or

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Holly Holm going to ground to learn a new way to fight
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Holly Holm going to ground to learn a new way to fight

HH: I don't want to fight Ronda tomorrow just like she wouldn't want to box me tomorrow. But she's probably working on that. And I'm working on my ground game.

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Marloes Coenen already has the best title she could ever want
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Marloes Coenen already has the best title she could ever want

Like most fights, the Coenens' started with a few opening moves in their battle against the Nazis. The couple slaughtered animals on their rural estate to

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Having battled Sandy, Chris Weidman now preparing for Anderson Silva
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Having battled Sandy, Chris Weidman now preparing for Anderson Silva

WAGENHEIM: Everything you need to know about UFC 162

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Melvin Guillard case heads to court ahead of his July 27 bout
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Melvin Guillard case heads to court ahead of his July 27 bout

Guillard found a new home at Grudge Training Center in Colorado and the lightweight (30-12-2) is scheduled to fight Mac Danzig (21-10-1) July 27 in Seattle as

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Luke Rockhold looks to beat up another bully in his UFC debut
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Luke Rockhold looks to beat up another bully in his UFC debut

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SI College Athlete of the Year nominee: LSU's Kimberlyn Duncan
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SI College Athlete of the Year nominee: LSU's Kimberlyn Duncan

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SI College Athlete of the Year nominee: Oregon's Liz Brenner
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SI College Athlete of the Year nominee: Oregon's Liz Brenner

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Jackson/Winkeljohn cornermen are crucial to their fighters' successes
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Jackson/Winkeljohn cornermen are crucial to their fighters' successes

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