The Pitch Questionnaire: Kansas City Star columnist Sam Mellinger
Occupation: Sports columnist at The Kansas City Star
Hometown: Lawrence, Kansas
Current neighborhood: Downtown Kansas City, Missouri
Who or what is your sidekick? Frankie, my pointer mix with an enormous vertical leap. No joke, she can scale a tree. Career high is maybe 12 feet off the ground. Traffic stops when we’re out on walks.
What career would you choose in an alternate reality? This is hard because I’ve honestly never considered anything else since I was about 15. I hope the answer is that I would teach or do something with a nonprofit like Big Brothers Big Sisters, but if it turns out that I’m not as altruistic as I hope, sometimes I close my eyes and imagine tending bar on a beach somewhere.
