About moi

R. remembers attending Haverford College, graduating in 1979 with a major in philosophy, the first student to pass the very demanding Intro Logic midterm at Bryn Mawr in seven years. He then assumed a succession of positions -- compromising, appalling, and including: deli clerk, office temp, ticket-taker, box-office functionary, staff writer for Newsday (LI) sports, bookstore clerk, office temp, office temp, hospital clerk, freelance writer, office temp, and video director and producer. During this time he began contributing to publications, writing features for all the golf magaines -- Golf Illustrated, Golf Magazine, Golf World, Links, Golf Digest, Maximum Golf, while also reporting for Newsday and Wired and contributing to the Weekly Forward, and the satirical online 'zine Suck as well as Continental Magazine, RIS News, and Investor's Business Daily. 

 

He made his mark as the first in golf to cover the uneasy relationship between golf and the environment with a column for Golf Illustrated in 1985. Later that year, his book-length investigation of professional wrestling, "Sleeper Hold," was hailed by wrestling fans and journalists as an impeccably-researched, vastly entertaining and truly inside look at the pro wrestling industry, "the best mainstream coverage of the era," in the words of one well-known wrestling writer.  A 1987 Golf Illustrated story about emotions anticipated the focus on the mental aspects of competitive golf; his 1994 feature about caddies on the PGA Tour earned accolades from correspondents and television and radio broadcasters, while a Golf World guest column about team golf from later that year presaged the resurgence in match-play interest among golf fans. He honed in on the social changes wrought by the electronic age in a 1998 cover story for Yahoo! Internet Life titled "The Email Chronicles." His sports-related op-eds have placed Tiger Woods in the context of the post-Vietnam world of golf; anticipated the Supreme Court's ruling in the Casey Martin case, and deconstructed the psyche of then-Indiana University basketball coach Bob Knight. He's written engagingly about comedy -- about W.C. Fields and Woody Allen for Newsday and the Weekly Forward. In 2008, he rode his Moto Guzzi motorcycle from cross-county and wrote about the experience for Fairways And Greens.

 

Several of years ago he started appearing as a standup comic, and as "Ray Field," he's performed in clubs all around the country and acted in films, onstage, and in commercials.  He also works as a consultant for Forster-Thomas, helping business school candidates get into the best MBA programs in the world by finding and crafting compelling narratives.

 

In 2011, he and actress-singer Ruthie Stephens were married in East Hampton, New York. They live together in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.