Lance Pugmire

Lance Pugmire was the Los Angeles Times’ boxing/MMA/Ducks beat writer. He has provided Associated Press Sports Editors’ prize-winning coverage on doping and the death of Northwestern football player Rashidi Wheeler and was also first on the scene in The Times’ Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage in 2003 of wildfires in the Inland Empire and San Diego. Raised in El Cajon and Glendale, Ariz., he graduated from Cal State Fullerton. Pugmire left The Times in June 2019.