Biography: Alan Abrahamson is an award-winning sportswriter, best-selling author and in-demand television analys. From 2006 until 2010, Alan served as columnist at NBCOlympics.com, NBCSports.com and UniversalSports.com. For the 17 years before that, he was a staff writer at the Los Angeles Times; he spent his first nine years covering news, and his final eight, sports, mainly the Olympic movement.