NSSA

Former Sports Illlustrated and ESPN The Magazine writer Jeff Bradley’s blog on ten-time Massachusetts Sportswriter of the Year, Dan Shaughnessy:  http://jeffbradleyblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/ode-to-one-of-my-heroes.html

KTRK sports director Bob Allen, whose near four decade-long run is believed to be the longest current streak in local TV, will leave the station at the end of 2012.  Here’s the story from the Houston Chronicle.

Not only is Doug Segrest of the Birmingham News a talented sportswriter, as evidenced by his election as 2011 NSSA Alabama Sportswriter of the Year, but he’s also a novelist.  His new book, A Storm Came Up, is set in 1963 east Alabama, amid the changing and at times, chaotic social and racial atmospheres.  To learn [...]

In this multimedia age, NSSA member Mike Maloni is a photographer and author, who has written two sports books, Shortstop – Where Grace and Power Collide and Defenseman.  Here’s a link for more information on the books.

2011 NSSA Massachusetts Sportswriter of the Year finalist Kevin Paul Dupont wrote the following tribute to longtime Boston Globe  hockey writer Fran Rosa in Sunday’s Globe:  http://www.boston.com/sports/hockey/bruins/articles/2012/01/08/late_globe_hockey_writer_francis_rosa_was_a_true_gentleman/

SALISBURY, NC (December 26, 2011) — A reminder to NSSA members:  the deadline for voting for the 2011 NSSA Awards is 11:55pm PST on December 31, 2011.  That means you have less than one week, if you have not voted yet.  All NSSA full members were emailed the ballot for their state, national and Hall of [...]