Rick Roso

Rick Roso is TicketNews’s sports reporter. He has been writing professionally since 1988, when Washington, D.C.-based television and radio trade newspaper The Current brought him on board as reporter, writer, editor and special projects manager.

Prior, he had been successful in the cable television industry in Houston after graduating from the University of Pittsburgh with a bachelor of science in psychology and a minor in speech and communication. Rick was accepted to law school, but as he puts it, “I was there for the wrong reason! I wanted to make enough money to drive race cars, but I wasn’t great in chemistry, so I figured that ruled out med school. And I wasn’t brilliant in higher level math, so I ruled out engineering. But I knew I could write a little bit, so, what the heck, let’s go to law school!” He quit after a year...

... but by the early 1990s, Rick had figured out how to get paid in an industry that was his passion – motorsports. “Well, I wasn’t wealthy enough to go racing on my own,” he says. “I figured, Hey, what if I worked for a big racing outfit? Surely I could sleaze some ‘seat time,’ as we call it.’’

Which he did. In addition to writing, reporting and editing for the world’s largest racing school, Skip Barber, Rick had worked into his contract that he could race three or four times a year for free. (“Yea, well, I gotta pay for crash damage like anyone else would!”) So he got to live his dream.

In the meantime, Rick’s writing had brought him a bit of notice and was soon recruited to freelance for magazines, newspapers and websites on a variety of subjects, from sports and music to artist and musician profiles. He’s written expository and technical pieces for Porsche, Sprint – even an aviation and automotive think tank and forecasting organization.

Rick has produced shows and segments for ESPN and SpeedTV, written TV, radio and commercial scripts, appeared in numerous racing-reality programs, is a professional photographer (editorial and creative), and was an on-air radio DJ for a small station.

Rick has two teenage kids, Charlotte and Ricky (“No, they’re not race car drivers. But they are avid readers and writers. I wonder where they got that from?”), and lives in northwest Connecticut.