explore his longtime fascination with the connection between inner and outer strength. At Springfield College, Tuthill did plenty of heavy lifting. He came


in as an undersized linebacker, but became a very productive player and a favorite of Coach Mike Delong ’74 for his intelligence and his relentless work in the weight room. He also sweated through the grueling world of in-depth feature reporting. Working from abundance, he penned a brilliant tribute to retiring English professor David Carlson, one of the finest stories ever published in the Springfield Student. It took Tuthill a little while to


find the path to combine his passions. He caddied for awhile, before moving up to Vermont and taking a job at The Bennington Banner. Working for a small-town newspaper, first as a reporter and then as an associate sports editor, was, he says, great training: “It was really, really good for me. It


gave me the discipline to hammer


stuff out every day.” In time, Tuthill moved down to


New York with his then-girlfriend, now wife, Jill, following her job to the big


city. There he found work first as a personal trainer, and then— capitalizing on some freelance work he had done and a shift in company operations from los Angeles to New York—at Muscle and Fitness. In addition to layout and social media responsibilities, he has profiled the likes of Arnold Schwarzenegger and NFl quarterback Drew Brees. Always, he has found himself intrigued about what it means to be strong. That question came to the fore in a big


way this past summer when he did a cover story about the training Henry Cavill did for the lead role in the blockbuster Man of Steel film. Tuthill’s reporting took him to director Zach Snyder and trainer Mark Twight. His interviews pointed to a moment when


Cavill truly inhabited the character, completing a particularly daunting workout. Says Tuthill, “When you’re able to do something really diffi- cult in the gym, you push through it, and find that thing deep inside of you—it’s the plot of the movie, too— it all crosses over. It all intertwines.” Makes sense. After all, fans of Superman can tell you that before the cape goes on, Clark kent works at The Daily Planet as a reporter.


TV: Nick Carboni


These days, Nick Carboni keeps his shoes on. Always as well-dressed as Will Ferrell’s Ron Burgundy in


“Anchorman,”—but with infinitely more journalistic focus—Carboni ’08 is the sports director for WBIR, the NBC television affiliate in knoxville, Tenn. With his well-polished brown wingtips firmly planted on the ground, he is making a name for himself as an award-winning journalist with an eye for a good story. His formative days as a reporter go way back—not perhaps to the


days of Shoeless Joe Jackson—but to the days of One-Shoe Nick in Connecticut. As a kid growing up, he displayed dual passions for sports and stories, routinely chronicling neighborhood athletic events in a homemade newsletter. One edition, he admits, included an account of his own heroics: “I ran back a touchdown on our street with one shoe on.” Most of his journalism,


when the CardInalS won the SerIeS the followIng nIght, CarbonI waS In the loCker room, followIng the Story, tryIng to keep the SprayIng Champagne from StIngIng hIS eyeS. It waS Clear that he had ChoSen the rIght profeSSIon.


though, focused on others. Carboni’s father was an assistant high school football coach, and young Nick was transfixed. “I lived and died with the Fitch High School Falcons and what they did every Saturday afternoon on the football field,” he recalled. At age 8, Nick started filling up notebooks with every key interception and third- down conversion. Years later he took his notebooks to Springfield College, and


quickly established himself as a multimedia journalist on the rise. He became the editor-in-chief of the Springfield Student and one of the founding editors (along with Matt Schooley, see page 20) of Pride Sports Journal, a yearly feature magazine about Springfield College sports produced by students. Carboni also began writing for the Hartford Courant during this time, even penning a front-page feature on a high school pitcher named Matt Harvey—the New York Mets star who just this summer started for the National league in the All-Star game. Carboni took his talents to


Nick Carboni at the 2011 World Series


Syracuse for graduate school, where he shifted to the TV side.


Shortly after graduation, he was hired in “the other Springfield” at kOlR in Springfield, Mo., and continued his journalistic climb. (He was hired away by the station in knoxville this fall.) Carboni won first


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