John D. Lukacs, a writer with a budding reputation as a World War II and sports historian, specializes in one-of-a-kind stories—the unusual, the unprecedented and the virtually unknown.
His work has appeared in USA Today, The New York Times, ESPN The Magazine, World War II Magazine and on ESPN.com.
For the past eight years, Lukacs, a 1999 graduate of the University of Notre Dame, has worked as a consultant to ESPN College GameDay. In addition to his work with GameDay, where he has supplied story ideas as well as statistical data, written and produced features, teases and other segments, Lukacs is a frequent contributor to ESPN.com, has appeared as an on-air commentator on ESPN, and also has worked on projects with other ESPN entities such as Outside the Lines and Classic Sports Reporters.
A hands-on historian who enjoys forensic documentary research and believes that first-hand knowledge of a geographical location is essential to fashioning a riveting narrative, he has explored battlefields, bunkers, jungles, tunnels, wrecks and airfields everywhere from Europe to the Pacific, including: the Ardennes, Bastogne, Bataan, Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest at Berchtesgaden, Cabanatuan, Corregidor, Coral Sea, Dachau, Guadalcanal, Guam, Hiroshima, Iwo Jima, Manila, Midway, Paris, Pearl Harbor, Okinawa, Rabaul, Reims, Saipan, the Siegfried Line, Tarawa, Truk and Wake Island.
A former resident of New York City’s famed Hotel Chelsea, Lukacs, 33, lives in Arizona and Western Pennsylvania.