Cedric Golden

Austin American-Statesman columnist Cedric Golden grew up in Tyler, TX in a Dallas Cowboys household where names like Roger Staubach, Drew Pearson, and Tony Dorsett were spoken in the same reverence as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Abraham Lincoln and Jesus, not necessarily in that order.

Ced knew from an early age that he wanted to be one of three things: a professional athlete, a TV sports anchor or a sportswriter.

 Sportswriting won out. He worked at the Tyler Morning Telegraph from 1993-1999 then was hired at the Statesman in October of 1999 to cover high school sports. Three years later he was promoted to the Texas football/baseball beats and covered national championships in football and baseball in 2005. Ah, the good old days when Texas was good at everything.

He was promoted to general sports columnist in 2006 and has covered a handful of Super Bowls, Final Fours, NBA Finals,  prizefights in Las Vegas and cool local events like the Testosterone Festival, and a basketball league of 80-year-old grandmothers in Georgetown.

He appears during the football season on KVUE television in Austin, Sirius satellite radio and is the host of On Second Thought, a weekly podcast with his Statesman colleague Kirk Bohls.

He is married Beverley, who somehow endures his addiction to Mexican food and fantasy league football.