Sean Deveney has been with the Sporting News since 1999, covering all major sports, and is the publication's resident baseball insider. Deveney has covered dozens of major championships: the World Series, NBA Finals, Super Bowl, the NCAA Tournament, college football's national championship, and the PGA championship. Deveney also has been honored in The Best American Sports Writing anthology for a story about Pedro Martinez. He has been a regular guest on ESPN2's First Take, ESPN Classic, and Comcast Sports Chicago Tribune Live, with appearances on Fox News, CNN, CBS, and MSNBC. He appears on numerous radio shows around the country each week and resides in Marblehead, Massachusetts.

Kent McDill has been a sports writer since 1978, and has worked for United Press International and the Daily Herald newspaper in Arlington Heights, Illinois. He is the only beat writer to have covered the Chicago Bulls for all six championships, and currently covers the team for NBA.com. He has previously written two books on the Bulls, and is currently working on one about the Chicago Bears. McDill resides in Park Ridge, Illinois