Kevin Bilodeau
Kevin Bilodeau builds Live 5 News sports coverage around detailed, year-round reporting on Lowcountry high school and college teams, with a focus on scores, schedules and the stories behind local athletes. He is Sports Director at Live 5 News and has been part of the station’s sports team since September 2004. His work spans recurring series on football and basketball, coverage of college programs and special features that turn local games and players into sustained beats rather than occasional highlights.
Lowcountry high school football
Bilodeau’s defining line of coverage is Lowcountry high school football, where he maintains a weekly drumbeat of previews, polls and score roundups. He produces regular “Lowcountry high school football” packages that set a Game of the Week, such as Hanahan at Oceanside, James Island at Stratford, Summerville at James Island and Summerville at Berkeley, giving structure to the local football calendar and signaling which matchups matter most. His #Live5FNL Top 10 poll keeps close track of how teams like James Island and Berkeley move up and down the rankings, including stretches where James Island stays at number one after Game of the Week wins.
Beyond the marquee games, he documents the ecosystem around high school football, from Shrine Bowl selections for schools including James Island, Summerville, Oceanside, Beckham and Woodland to weekly scoreboards that show how many Lowcountry teams remain alive in the playoffs. His reporting extends to program-level changes, such as openings for head football coaches at Fort Dorchester, coaching departures like St. John’s parting ways with Mike Howard after four seasons, and early National Signing Day, where he notes dozens of local athletes signing letters of intent.
This steady attention makes his high school football coverage both granular and continuous, tracking teams through regular seasons, postseason runs, coaching decisions and player milestones.
High school basketball and other local sports
Bilodeau applies the same local-first approach to high school basketball and other prep sports, treating coaching moves and playoff runs as news beats. His basketball coverage includes stories on coaching changes and transitions at programs like Bishop England, West Ashley and Stratford, as well as features on long-serving coaches and their postseason records.
He follows playoff progress game by game, with scoreboard pieces that log results, note eliminations and highlight advances for schools such as James Island, Cross, Military Magnet, Northwood Academy, Summerville and Bishop England.
Outside football and basketball, he reports on a broad mix of high school and youth sports, including volleyball state championships for Bishop England and Wando, and baseball camps run by local products like Geoffrey Gilbert. These pieces emphasize continuity between local high schools and higher levels of sport, showing how players move from area programs into college or professional paths while staying connected to the community. The range of his prep coverage reinforces a clear pattern: he treats local teams and athletes as the core of the sports desk, giving them regular visibility across seasons and sports.
The Citadel and college sports
College sports form the second pillar of Bilodeau’s beat, with particular depth around The Citadel and other regional programs. At The Citadel, he covers on-field results such as NCAA Regional games against Oklahoma, triple-overtime upset wins at Charlotte and Southern Conference home openers, tying those outcomes to individual performances and league honors.
His stories detail achievements like running back Gavin Garcia’s 137-yard, three-touchdown game and subsequent Southern Conference Offensive Player of the Week recognition, connecting game narratives with conference-level significance.
He also focuses on personal and roster stories at The Citadel, including profiles of Ramel Bethea becoming the oldest Division I player in the country and First Baptist alumnus Colin McKenzie returning to the Lowcountry to join the Bulldogs.
Bilodeau links college programs to the wider sports landscape through pieces on events such as the Charlotte Hornets holding training camp at The Citadel and basketball exhibitions at Credit One Stadium featuring matchups like College of Charleston versus The Citadel. His college reporting extends to Coastal Carolina baseball, where he tracks staff changes such as the hiring of Tony Skole as general manager and Chris Lemonis as head coach, positioning these moves within the program’s ambitions.
Outside straight reporting, Bilodeau appears as part of regional college football conversation on Palmetto Sports Daily, where he joins other sports directors to give weekly “locks of the week” picks and segments like “Bilodeau’s Bakery” focused on college games. This combination of game coverage, player profiles, program decisions and on-air analysis shows a consistent interest in how college teams from the region compete, evolve and connect back to local fans.
Electric Bilodeau and extended coverage
Bilodeau extends his reporting beyond the sports desk through the Electric Bilodeau podcast, which blends interviews with newsmakers and entertainers and updates on Lowcountry sports. Episodes range from college baseball updates as the season winds down to previews of the NCAA basketball tournament, giving him space to go deeper on topics he covers in his reporting. The podcast is branded with Live 5, reinforcing that his voice and perspective anchor the station’s broader sports presence.
His social media presence further amplifies his beat, as he uses platforms like X to share standout moments and emotional stories from games, including viral clips such as a Citadel offensive lineman surprised on the field by his father returning from deployment and postgame scenes from college matchups. He also posts about live events like WWE shows, mixing professional coverage with fan-focused commentary from local sports and entertainment. Taken together, his roles at Live 5 News, his podcast work and regional collaborations position him as a central, long-tenured figure in Lowcountry sports media whose coverage is grounded in the day-to-day realities of high school and college athletics.
4 more sports journalists.
Adair Reid
Adair Reid is a sports columnist for The Cavalier Daily who covers Virginia men’s programs with a blunt, fan-aware voice that treats them as long-term projects rather than one-off games. He focuses on trajectory, legacy and risk, using opinion columns to question coaching decisions and program strategy while grounding his arguments in recent results, records, tournament performance and roster realities. Men’s lacrosse is a recurring subject, and his work on the program’s coaching change shows how he uses a single decision to examine overall health, standards and competitive standing. He frames games in terms of stakes, identity and institutional expectations, emphasizing postseason implications, recruiting, national perception and alignment with a championship standard. He writes mostly in the first person only when needed, keeps the spotlight on institutional choices and brings analysis-first, evidence-based judgment to Virginia’s flagship men’s teams.
Adam Stern
Adam Stern covers the business of motorsports and combat sports at Sports Business Journal, focusing on how sponsorships, media deals and new events reshape racing and fighting. His beat includes NASCAR, IndyCar, Formula 1, NHRA, rallycross, UFC and boxing. He tracks brands, broadcasters, manufacturers, promoters and streaming platforms, with reporting on sponsorship strategy, rights deals, original content, series growth, team projects and technical regulations. He examines how Cadillac’s Formula 1 entry supports broader marketing aims, how F1 Academy builds commercial momentum and whether new MMA promotions can challenge UFC. His work includes short speed reads on deals and longer features on multi-party investments. He reports on the money and strategy behind the action, treating motorsports and combat sports as connected marketplaces shaped by branding, dealmaking and media innovation.
Albert Burneko
Albert Burneko writes about how systems of power bear down on ordinary people, using sports, politics, technology, food, and domestic life as entry points. He is an assignment editor and writer at Defector and part of its founding ownership group. His politics and capital reporting examines how policy, policing, and public rhetoric turn into harm for specific people, centering victims and vulnerable people. He also covers artificial intelligence, media criticism, and technology’s effects, asking who benefits and who absorbs the costs. His domestic writing focuses on parenting, bodily discomfort, and everyday frustration. His recurring Chefector column turns cooking failures into comic studies of impatience, ego, and routine. He writes sharp reported essays, first-person dispatches, mock explainers, and sports-adjacent guides. His work combines moral seriousness, comic voice, close attention to ordinary life, and a focus on how people live under larger systems.
Albert Samaha
Albert Samaha is a sports investigative reporter who uses games to examine how power, money and culture shape players, workers, fans and communities. He works in The Washington Post sports section, covering global tournaments, migration, fan culture, sports betting, match-fixing, ownership, NIL money, football safety, participation gaps and the changing culture of women’s basketball. His reporting connects events on the field to decisions in boardrooms, betting markets, government offices and law enforcement. He previously reported for BuzzFeed News and wrote for the Village Voice, San Francisco Weekly and the Riverfront Times. His work has also appeared in The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, The New York Times and The Paris Review. He writes long, deeply reported stories that combine narrative scenes, data analysis, public records, medical records and other documents.