Torre graduated from Harvard Collegemagna cum laude with highest honors in Sociology in 2007, and was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa society.[7][8] There, he wrote a 114-page thesis entitled Sympathy for the Devil? Child Homicide, Victim Characteristics, and the Sentencing Preferences of the American Conscience,[9] which won the Albert M. Fulton Prize for best thesis in the field of sociology.[10] At Harvard, he wrote for The Harvard Crimson, where he was the executive editor.[11]
Career
Sports Illustrated
Upon graduating from Harvard, Torre joined Sports Illustrated as a staff writer, where his focuses included investigative reporting, boxing, and basketball.
His 2009 award-winning [citation needed] article, "How (and Why) Athletes Go Broke",[12] along with two follow-up reports, spurred an investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission of the investment firm Triton Financial for defrauding investors in a multimillion-dollar scam. A federal jury would later convict Triton's CEO Kurt Barton guilty of operating a Ponzi scheme which defrauded investors of more than $500 million. ESPN later broadcast Broke, a 30 for 30 documentary, which was based on Torre’s research and which featured him extensively on-air.
ESPN
On October 10, 2012, Torre joined ESPN as a senior writer for both its website and magazine.
On March 12, 2014, Torre first filled in as host on TV talk show Around the Horn in the absence of Tony Reali. In August of that year, Torre again covered for Reali when he took time off for the birth of his daughter. In 2015, Torre was the first person to report that Tony Wroten had begun using the term "Trust the Process" when talking to the Philadelphia 76ers during their rebuilding phase.[13]
In 2016, Torre produced his first 30 for 30 entitled Friedman's Shoes, which was directed by Danny Lee.
In 2018, Torre and Bomani Jones debuted High Noon, a daily show from the new ESPN Studios in New York City's South Street Seaport. The show was cancelled in March 2020.[14]
In 2020, Torre began hosting the ESPN Daily podcast.[15]
In March 2023, Torre joined Meadowlark Media, a new company founded by former colleague Dan Le Batard.[17][18][4] Torre continued making appearances on the ESPN program Around the Horn until its cancellation in 2025,[19] and continues to contribute to ESPN's Pardon the Interruption as a fill-in host.[20]
In September 2023,[21] Torre launched a new podcast and webseries called Pablo Torre Finds Out.[22] The show has a staff of about a dozen producers and editors, and combines both original reporting and conversational content.[4] In an interview with Intelligencer, he described his motto in making the show as "take stupid things seriously".[3] Frequent guests on the show have included Le Batard, Mina Kimes, Katie Nolan, and John Skipper.[4] The show was initially sponsored by DraftKings, but the relationship ended in 2025 as part of what Torre described as a "conscious uncoupling" due to the reputation of sports gambling companies.[3][23]
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