Selena Roberts (born May 16, 1966 in Live Oak, Florida) is an American author and sportswriter.
Previously, she was a senior writer for Sports Illustrated and a columnist for The New York Times.
Roberts began her career as a beat writer for the Minnesota Vikings at the Minneapolis Star Tribune and for the Orlando Magic and Tampa Bay Buccaneers at the Orlando Sentinel.
She received a B.A.
degree in journalism from Auburn University in 1988 where she was a sports editor for the university paper The Plainsman.
She also made frequent appearances on the ESPN talk show The Sports Reporters.
In a February 7, 2009 article on SI.com that quickly made the cover of Sports Illustrated, Roberts revealed that Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez tested positive for steroids in 2003.