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email: terry@terryfrei.com Terry
Frei is a general feature writer and columnist at the Greeley
Tribune, a commentator for Mile High Sports, an
affiliate professor at Metropolitan State University of Denver and
the author of seven well-received books. He also has written
for the Denver Rocky Mountain News, the Denver
Post, the Oregonian, and The Sporting News. On the heels of his critically acclaimed fact-based novel, Olympic Affair: Hitler's Siren and America's Hero, Frei returned to non-fiction for March 1939: Before the Madness. Frei's other non-fiction books are Playing Piano in a Brothel; '77: Denver, the Broncos, and a Coming of Age, Third Down and a War to Go, and Horns, Hogs, and Nixon Coming.
at
age 17, and part of it appeared in the Wheat Ridge (Colo.)
High literary magazine. It was published many years later.
Frei and Adrian Dater also collaborated on Save By Roy. Frei spent his early years in Eugene, Oregon, where his father, Jerry, spent 17 years on the University of Oregon football staff, including as the Ducks' head coach. Jerry Frei, a decorated World War II fighter pilot, was progressive and
ahead of his times on such issues as integrating his coaching
staff and allowing his players freedom to wear their hair as
they liked and participate in campus politics and anti-war protests.
In fact, those teams, players, coaches and times became
the basis of The Witch's Season.
Terry is a graduate of Wheat Ridge High School in the Denver area -- he was
half of the infamous (Dave) Logan &
Frei battery -- and has degrees in history and journalism from the University of Colorado at Boulder. At CU, he has served as vice
chair of the History Department advisory board and chair of the International Affairs advisory board.
Frei has been named a
state's sportswriter of the year seven times -- four times
in Colorado and three times in Oregon. At various times in his career, he has been best known for his NFL and/or NHL writing, but has covered it all. In Denver, he frequently has been labeled a "hockey writer" because of his long-time coverage
of the Colorado Avalanche and the NHL
for The Denver Post and also simultaneously as a featured ESPN.com
hockey columnist for eight years. He doesn't dodge that title
but it doesn't do justice to his background and ecletic interests
as a writer and columnist. At The
Sporting News, his stories included major or cover pieces on
Jerry Rice,Thurman Thomas, Emmitt Smith, Shaquille O'Neal,
Michael Irvin, Richard Dent and Aeneas Williams. He has
covered many Olympic Games, Super Bowls, NBA Finals, NHL
Finals, World Series, Final Fours, major bowl games and
high-profile boxing matches -- all while continuing to
enjoy writing about events both high profile and grassroots.
(Credentials from one of each are below.) Because of his
extensive research, interviewing and writing about the U.S.
effort in World War II, in both European and Pacific theaters,
Frei appears at veterans-oriented functions, as shown below.
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