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My name is Luke Scotchie, and I'm a writer based in San Antonio, TX. 

My bylines can be found on The Boston Globe, Orlando Magic HQ, Boston.com, Major League Table Tennis and The Florida Catholic. My reporting has been aggregated on CNN, Bleacher Report, Sports Illustrated and Yahoo! Sports.

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Phone: (321) 370-9961

Featured Articles

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A Walk With Anthony Black, and the Ride He's Taken

Markus Black happened to wake up early this morning. Not even the sun appears to be awake — if it is, it’s hiding behind the gray clouds dimming the Nashville sky. No matter. He’s up now. Why not get this crucial day started a little earlier than usual?He grabs his important belongings and leaves his hotel room. As he heads down, the graduate assistant for the University of Arkansas men’s basketball program still can’t see any of his team’s players, coaches, or coworkers. Not until he reaches th...
Boston.com •

Why Red Sox draft pick Payton Tolle meant so much to former scout Chris Reilly

Nothing could take Chris Reilly away from this conversation. Not the Oklahoma sun scorching his skin. Not the buzzing of the bugs that infiltrated the Stillwater summer sky. Not even the swings of the high school baseball players on Allie P. Reynolds Stadium’s on-deck circle about 100 feet away from him. Chris’s eyes and ears were locked onto this remarkable friend he had just made.

Her name was Jina Tolle. She was the mother of one of the high schoolers playing at Oklahoma State’s ballpark tha...
Boston.com •

How Roman Anthony became one of baseball's brightest prospects

The windiest November afternoons in Stillwater, Okla. don’t greet you with a warm smile upon an unprepared arrival. A blast of chilly air saps the energy out of your skin and makes your knees tremble. Your brittle fingers feel as though they’re one gust of wind away from snapping off your palm. You’ll be at risk of losing a hat if it doesn’t sit perfectly on your head.

But Roman Anthony doesn’t need warm greetings. Any place that allows him to improve his game is warm enough to keep his passion...
Orlando Magic HQ •

Inside the Heart and Hustle of Kentavious Caldwell-Pope

The Meriwether County Courthouse sits proudly in the middle of the town square. Turn on either side to find one of a few churches, and keep driving to see a small, triangular brick building that houses the public library. If you happen to spot a few people while on the road, there’s a good chance the second person you see knows that first person’s name, birthday, and how their children are doing.That’s probably what Mark Fox and Phillip Pearson saw on their first drive through Greenville, Georgi...

Portland defeats Carolina 21-18 to win Season 3 MLTT Championship

‍FREMONT, Calif. — Major League Table Tennis (MLTT) has a brand new champion.The Portland Paddlers defeated the Carolina Gold Rush in the Season 3 Championship Match, 21-18. They complete their historic 16-2 regular season by unseating MLTT’s defending champions in their first-ever postseason appearance.“If we finished fourth place in these playoffs, that’s normal,” Paddlers head coach Christian Lillieroos said on his mindset during Championship Weekend. “That we can make a win out of this is cr...
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Brand New Role, ‘Same Old Goga’: How Goga Bitadze Went From Struggling in Georgia to Starting in Orlando | Orlando Magic HQ

It didn’t take too long for six-year-old Goga Bitadze to decide that he hated basketball.

Even taking one step on that court felt like stepping on an emotional minefield. One wrong move and his coach would explode. And make him run. A lot. There was so much running, and for what? He already knew that he messed up. His heart would hurt from the mistake he had just made; did that mean his legs had to as well? How do the other kids not pass out midway through these running sessions? Do they find i
Boston.com •

Kristian Campbell's unprecedented rise is no surprise to his former coaches

Kristian Campbell taps his toe on the ground right before he swings his bat. It’s a subtle, quick tap, but it’s very hard to unsee it once you notice it. Campbell’s teammates at Georgia Tech caught onto his unique quirk. At some point, they started calling him “Toe Tap.”

Even associate head coach James Ramsey’s then 3-year-old son, Brogan, referred to his favorite player by that moniker. “I want to talk to ‘Toe Tap!” Brogan would implore his father during road trips. He wasn’t the only one. Eve...

Jiwei Xia's special return to Portland, his city and his court.

PORTLAND, Ore. — Hundreds of people packed Hall A of the Oregon Convention Center on Saturday night and colored the stands in orange. The harmonious cacophony of these roaring onlookers drowned out the sound of every other conversation taking place. Anytime the noise would start to die down, the sound of a sold-out crowd chanting “JIWEI! JIWEI! JIWEI!” re-emerged as if silence was never an option.This commotion reached its apex at the start of doubles. Almost as soon as Jiwei Xia approached the...
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‘He’s Got This Charm:’ How Dennis Salvagio Became The Fat Guy | Orlando Magic HQ

Dennis Salvagio rises from his seat and picks up a briefcase full of court documents that never once touched the defendant’s table. They didn’t need to. Most of the facts about his client’s possession of marijuana charge have already been seared into his brain. Now that his client’s time in front of the judge is over for the day, Salvagio starts to saunter toward the door. He turns his head toward the back of the courtroom and locks eyes with his son Chris, who gets up from the bench and joins his father in their walk toward the car.

A brutal loss couldn't stop 15-year-old Tashiya Piyadasa

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Fifteen-year-old Tashiya Piyadasa (SPINDEX: 2407) spent her Saturday night inside the dining area of the Elements Charlotte Uptown hotel. She sat at one of its tables with a hamburger in her hand and a distraught look on her face. Across from her sat Florida Crocs teammate Marc Duran (2732), who tried his best to lift her spirits. “It’s good that you’re sad,” he told her. “That means you care, and that you’re a winner.” In his eyes, she was. He just needed to convince his frien...
Boston.com •

Wilyer Abreu talks about his breakout season and what it took to achieve it

Wilyer Abreu stared into the eyes of Buffalo Bisons pitcher Matt Wisler. He stood firm in the batters’ box with his bat held high, ready for whatever Wisler would throw at him next. He had no choice but to be. Wisler had already bested Abreu twice in that at-bat with two strikes. One more and he would be called for Worcester’s second out of the sixth inning, losing the chance to send teammate Enmanuel Valdez home from second base.

But that pressure didn’t mean much to Abreu. The left fielder wa

Portland defeats Carolina 21-18 to win Season 3 MLTT Championship

‍FREMONT, Calif. — Major League Table Tennis (MLTT) has a brand new champion.The Portland Paddlers defeated the Carolina Gold Rush in the Season 3 Championship Match, 21-18. They complete their historic 16-2 regular season by unseating MLTT’s defending champions in their first-ever postseason appearance.“If we finished fourth place in these playoffs, that’s normal,” Paddlers head coach Christian Lillieroos said on his mindset during Championship Weekend. “That we can make a win out of this is cr...
Boston.com •

'It really stems from who he is as a person': WooSox' Ryan Fitzgerald embraced the Worcester community — and the city repaid him

The clubhouse located underneath Polar Park’s home dugout is a large, vibrant room adorned with several wooden lockers, most of which look like near-replicas of one another. If no one’s sitting in front of it, or if you don’t read the WooSox-themed nameplates attached to each one of them, it’s nearly impossible to tell which locker belongs to which player.

But one particular locker, located near the left corner past the room’s entrance, stands out from the rest. Taped just above its nameplate i
Boston.com •

How Payton Tolle's mother helped him become a Boston Red Sox

Payton Tolle is not a small man. At 6-foot-6 and 250 pounds, Tolle towers over most of the batters brave enough to face him. But much larger than Tolle’s stature is the amount of enthusiasm he carries with him. When you meet Tolle for the first time, he greets you with a booming, animated voice that can fill entire stadiums. Once you sit down with him, he’ll chat with you about anything under the Boston summer sun with a Green Monster sized smile on his face.

That sunny disposition runs in the...

An Jaehyun declares for Season 4 MLTT Draft

South Korean superstar An Jaehyun has declared for the Season 4 Major League Table Tennis (MLTT) Draft.An is the No. 22 Men’s Singles player in the world, which is the highest current ranking of any player expected to compete in MLTT next season. The 26-year-old right-hander achieved his career-best ranking of No. 13 on Oct. 21, 2025 (Week 43).An is a two-time Asian Champion, a two-time World Cup silver medalist and a three-time World Championships bronze medalist. He represented South Korea in...
Boston.com •

'I'm an underdog': How Joe Jacques turned his childhood Yankees fandom into a love for pitching in Boston

Joe Jacques was sitting in a barber chair on a cold December day when he heard his phone ring.

As his barber sculpted his brand new haircut, Jacques took out his still vibrating phone and read the name at the top. What could his agent want from him?

The impending call could be about a number of different things, but Jacques already had a good idea of what he was about to hear. The 2022 Rule 5 Draft was just around the corner, and Jacques, a minor league pitcher in the Pittsburgh Pirates organi
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“This Is My Home Now”: Michael Carter-Williams on His New Deal, His Time Away, and What Orlando Means to Him

Orlando, FL – Michael Carter-Williams spends much of his time working out. No matter what new city he visits, any place with a weight room, a basketball court and enough space to exercise feels like home to him. That feeling never falters, even when he has no team to play for. He’s still able to find perfect peace inside a gym even when he doesn’t have a place to travel to or even a city’s name to wear on his chest.

Such was the case in March 2019, when Carter-Williams would often take to a Cal

Atlanta Blazers hiring Koji Itagaki as next head coach

The Atlanta Blazers have hired Koji Itagaki as their next head coach.Itagaki will replace Suzi Battison, who stepped down as the Blazers’ head coach on Monday. He will start Season 4 as the Blazers’ second head coach in two seasons.“MLTT is [a] young league, but it has many possibilities,” Itagaki said. “I try my best for players, for [my] team, [and] also for the league to develop.”Itagaki has coached TSV Bad Königshofen of Table Tennis Bundesliga since 2016. Under Itagaki, Bad Königshofen earn...
Boston.com •

How a YouTube video and Massachusetts helped Dalano Banton reach the NBA

Dalano Banton would sit patiently in his elementary school classrooms, but he couldn’t resist looking at the clock every so often. After all, how could he? Each and every tick of that clock’s minute hand meant he was one minute closer to the start of his IT class. Banton could hardly wait to enter that classroom. The secret to improving his basketball skills lay just behind the room’s doors.

Once it became time for IT class to begin, Banton would waste no time in getting there. He’d race to the
Boston.com •

Here's what convinced Conrad Cason to join the Red Sox

“Positive thoughts, positive outcomes,” Aaron Cason reminded himself as he ate his blueberry pancakes and hashbrowns. He knew that would be his breakfast order even before he and his teenage son Conrad arrived at the Cracker Barrel in Snellville, Ga. That order was the only thing anyone could predict on July 15. Every other question the Cason family had that day could only be answered by fate.

The most pressing of these questions was one the Cason family would have scoffed at a few years ago: c...
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