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Griffin Floyd

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Griffin Floyd got his start as a professional sportswriter during his junior year of high school, covering high school sports for the local paper. Floyd attended the University of Pittsburgh, where he began writing for the student paper, The Pitt News, during his first week on campus. Since then, he's covered a variety of high school, collegiate and professional teams for Pittsburgh Baseball Now—where he covers the Pittsburgh Pirates of MLB—as well as Pittsburgh Sports Now and its sister site West Virginia Sports Now, where he covers WVU Baseball, WVU Women's Basketball and the occasional Pitt game.

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