NSSA

By Pete Weber If you are a sportscaster, sportswriter, or some combination of the two, when I mention Salisbury, North Carolina, what occurs to you?   Are you hit with visions of an absolutely beautiful, peaceful place? Cheerwine? Salisbury Steak? Catawba and Livingstone colleges?   If you are in our business, what should come to [...]

The NSSA Hall of Fame has two members.  ESPN college basketball analyst Dick Vitale and Detroit Free Press columnist and best-selling author Mitch Album were inducted Monday night, while Dan Patrick of the Dan Patrick Show and Peter King of Sports Illustrated were honored as the National Sportscaster of the Year and National Sportswriter of the Year, respectively. Along [...]

A live webstream of the 54th Annual NSSA Awards Banquet will be available, beginning at 7:30 EDT on Monday, June 10th.  Total Event Production of Charlotte, NC is producing the Banquet, with Coaches Aid carrying the webstream.  To access the live webstream, please click here or paste the link into your web browser:  http://coachesaid.com/channel.aspx?channel=46. Among those [...]

SALISBURY, NC — Preparations for the 54th Annual NSSA Awards Weekend are in full gear, with some of the more than 400 guests expected to arrive in town next Friday.  Hall of Fame inductees Dick Vitale and Mitch Albom are both expected in Salisbury, NC, along with National Sportscaster of the Year Dan Patrick and [...]

Tulsa World sports columnist John Hoover is the 2012-13 winner of the National Athletic Trainers’ Association Sports Medicine Reporting Award, NATA announced today.  Hoover won for a column, four sidebars and some breakouts he wrote pertaining to catastrophic injuries in football.  The series appeared in the September 15, 2012 edition of the World. Hoover wins a [...]

SALISBURY, NC (April 3, 2013) – Tommy Amaker of Harvard University and James Stinson of Livingstone College (NC) have been named the winners of the third annual Clarence ‘Big House’ Gaines College Basketball Coach of the Year Awards, presented to the top minority college basketball coach in NCAA Division I (Amaker) and II (Stinson).  The [...]