Sandy Dover

Feature writer. Author. Magazine columnist. NBA scribe. Footwear & apparel expert and evaluator. Health & fitness consultant, advocate, and journalist. Media consultant and producer.

Professional creative.

It's clear that Sandy Dover has a deep, eclectic background within a multitude of different discliplines. As a former standout academic scholar and thespian, as well as an award-winning fine artist and vocalist in his earlier years, Sandy has gone on to become a man of the pen. He has been published by several elite publications, was a contributing author to Robert Atwan's 8th edition of "America Now", and even vetted by the Obama Administration as a member of The White House Press Pool during the 2012 Presidential Election.

Having collaborated heavily with some of the most innovative people and brands in the world, Sandy serves as an expert feature writer, opining principally on NBA basketball, sportswear and product, and fitness for a number of well-respected brand publications in media, such as Yahoo!, CounterKicks, and the YES Network's The Brooklyn Game.

Sandy is known most prominently as a featured columnist for the international bestselling basketball magazine, SLAM -- which hosts his San Dova Speak-Easy online column and a choice selection of print features for SLAM's annual KICKS magazine (2010, 2011, 2012) -- and more recently for his work with The Shadow League, a partner of ESPN.

Previously a Staff Writer for ESPN's Nets Are Scorching, Sandy also holds title posts as Expert Contributor for fitness & training brand STACK Media, and as a businessman, acting as Director of Sandy Dover Creative, a creative arts media company and the undercurrent of his professional endeavors.

For all of his work, Sandy has a following that literally stretches across the Atlantic to Europe, Australia, and Asia.

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"I do a lot and am fortunate to be gifted in several different areas, but I'm particularly good in what requires most of my time: being a writer, being a creator, being an artist. Ultimately, my goal is use my gifts to change the world, however I can, to the fullest and for the better."