John Schulian:  

I'm one of the lucky ones: I discovered that I could make a living doing something I loved. I'm a writer. I spent 16 years in newspapers, turning out stories about politics, crime, characters and rock and roll at the Baltimore Evening Sun and about sports of every description at the Washington Post, Chicago Daily News, Chicago Sun-Times and Philadelphia Daily News. My sports column was syndicated in 100 papers around the country and propelled me into the pages of such magazines as Sports Illustrated, GQ and Esquire. The Associated Press Sports Editors twice named me the nation's top sports columnist, and in 2016 I received the PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary Sports Writing. All my life, however, I had wondered what it would be like to work in Hollywood. When the opportunity presented itself, in 1986, I took the leap and wrote an episode of a TV series that had just premiered, "L.A. Law." In what seemed like a heartbeat, I had a new career. I went on to write and produce such shows "Miami Vice," "Wiseguy," "The 'Slap' Maxwell Story," "Midnight ...Expand for more