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  • 09 October 2011 Al Davis' son Mark is talking to Raiders players before their game in Houston.
  • 23 August 2011 Oscar De La Hoya watching Canelo Alvarez sparring in Big Bear before his fight with Alfonso Gomez.
  • 20 March 2012 Starting Spring and the Persian New Year off right. #Soltani
  • 27 November 2011 Marc Tyler wearing a championship shirt you won't likely see at the USC bookstore.
  • 12 December 2011 Whenever I get this at an airport it makes me miss @chrissyteigen more than I usually do.
  • 11 December 2011 Breakfast of champions.
  • 12 December 2011 It looks like I'll get to watch Monday Night Football after all.
  • 19 March 2012 Good to see my man @jimrome looking over Ventura Blvd. again. #818
  • 28 October 2011 @whitneykblaine making her @whosay debut. Get her an account guys.
  • 25 January 2012 The coolest item in the Clippers' trophy case.
  • 31 October 2011 Spike Lee supporting his USC Trojans on Saturday.
  • 10 December 2011 A sight for sore eyes. #BrooklynsFinest
Arash Markazi Snapshot
Arash Markazi is a columnist for ESPNLA.com and a regular contributor to ESPN Radio 710 in Los Angeles. He has covered everything from the Super Bowl and the NBA Finals to the World Cup and the Oscars.

Markazi, who was born in Oklahoma City and raised in Los Angeles, was a staff writer for Sports Illustrated for five years before joining ESPN to help launch ESPNLA.com in December 2009.

He has also written for Slam, King, Vibe and Playboy and is on the board of directors for the Jim Murray Memorial Foundation.

After graduating from Notre Dame High School in Sherman Oaks, Calif. Markazi attended the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University and later the Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism at the University of Southern California. He wrote a regular column for the Daily Trojan and also had his work published in several magazines and newspapers while at USC, including the Los Angeles Times and the Los Angeles Daily News. He graduated with a degree in Print Journalism from USC in 2004.

Markazi was hired by Sports Illustrated out of college and appeared on the cover of the March 31, 2005 issue of Sports Illustrated on Campus. He soon began writing a weekly column for Sports Illustrated's website, SI.com. Markazi's intimate and quirky portraits of Wayne Gretzky, Ronaldo, Matt Leinart and Reggie Bush caused the Los Angeles Times to name him one of the "Faces to Watch" in 2006.

He is a two-time cancer survivor and a cancer advocate. He is a Global Ambasador for Quest 40 Cure, which seeks to eradicate pediatric cancer and register new bone marrow donors.
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