Mass. native Dan Wetzel, Yahoo! Sports' first sportswriter, is leaving site for ESPN - The Boston Globe

Mass. native Dan Wetzel, Yahoo! Sports' first sportswriter, is leaving site for ESPN - The Boston Globe

Wetzel, a Norwell native who had been a national columnist with Yahoo! Sports since 2003, has won more than a dozen Associated Press Sports Editors awards.

Longtime Yahoo Sports columnist Dan Wetzel joins ESPN

After having spent the last two decades-plus of his career at Yahoo Sports, Dan Wetzel is on the move. On Thursday, ESPN announced that it has hired Wetzel, who will join the Worldwide Leader as a senior writer. According to a release, the Norwell, Mass., native will “focus on investigative reporting, news analysis, feature storytelling and will work in multiple platforms, including the podcast and television/streaming spaces.” His first day at …