Archive | January, 2012

Tentative Schedule For 53rd NSSA Awards Weekend, June 9-11

SATURDAY, JUNE 9th Pickups at CLT Airport – As scheduled Noon-9pm – Registration, Holiday Inn Salisbury 3:30-6:30pm – Welcome Reception, Holiday Inn, Salisbury, NC 6:30-9pm – Welcome Dinner, followed by Issues Forum (theme, participants TBD), Holiday Inn Ballroom   SUNDAY, JUNE 10th Pickups at CLT Airport – As scheduled 9:30-11am – NSSA National Board Meeting, [...]

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MA Sportswriter of Year a “Hero” To Another Writer

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

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USA’s Longest Tenured Local Sportscaster To Leave At 2012′s End

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.

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NSSA Alabama Sportswriter of Year Segrest Writes Novel

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 [...]

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NSSA Member Maloni’s Two Books

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.

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Bear Bryant Award Voting Opens

Voting for the 2011-12 Marathon Oil Paul ‘Bear’ Bryant College Football Coach of the Year Award is underway.  National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association members provide the voting for the Award, which benefits the Houston chapter of the American Heart Association. The Bryant Award is the only coach of the year award voted on after the BCS [...]

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