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Pete Axthelm: A Sportswriter Ahead of His Time

Pete Axthelm wasn’t just a man of his time—a gritty, witty New York City scribe who rode the new journalism wave to sportswriting fame in the 1970s. He was also a man who uniquely anticipated media’s future. Thirty years after his early death from drinking, imagine all he could have been.
Jon Wertheim|

Pete Axthelm wasn’t just a man of his time—a gritty, witty New York City scribe who rode the new journalism wave to sportswriting fame in the 1970s. He was also a man who uniquely anticipated media’s future. Thirty years after his early death from drinking, imagine all he could have been.

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Jon Wertheim
JON WERTHEIM

Jon Wertheim is a senior writer for Sports Illustrated and has been part of the full-time SI writing staff since 1997, largely focusing on the tennis beat, sports business and social issues, and enterprise journalism. In addition to his work at SI, he is a correspondent for “60 Minutes” and a commentator for The Tennis Channel. He has authored 11 books and has been honored with two Emmys, numerous writing and investigative journalism awards, and the Eugene Scott Award from the International Tennis Hall of Fame. Wertheim is a longtime member of the New York Bar Association (retired), the International Tennis Writers Association and the Writers Guild of America. He has a bachelor’s in history from Yale University and received a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He resides in New York City and Paris with his wife, who is a divorce mediator and adjunct law professor. They have two children.

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