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Dick McCann Memorial Award
The Bill Nunn Jr. Award is bestowed annually by the Professional Football Writers of America (PFWA) to a reporter for their "long and distinguished contribution to pro football through coverage". It is named after Bill Nunn Jr., who worked for 22 years at the ''Pittsburgh Courier''. The award was created in 1969 and was originally named after Dick McCann, who was the first director of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Presentation of the award is made annually at the Pro Football Hall Enshrinement Ceremony. Prior to 2014, the presentation was made at the Enshrinees Dinner. The list of Nunn Award honorees is sometimes referred to as the "writer's wing" of the Hall of Fame, despite not being named as hall of famers, getting gold jackets or bronze busts like the actual hall of famers. Award recipients See also *J. G. Taylor Spink Award - sports writers (Baseball Writers' Association of America) *Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award The Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award, created in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Professional Football Writers Of America
The Pro Football Writers of America (PFWA), sometimes known as Pro Football Writers Association, is an organization that purports to be " heofficial voice of pro football writers, promoting and fighting for access to NFL personnel to best serve the public." Goals of the organization include improving access to practices and locker rooms, developing working relationships with all teams, and ensuring that football writers are treated in a professional manner. By the mid-2000s the group consisted of over 300 writers, editors, and columnists who cover pro football. The PFWA also issue several awards and honors following each NFL season. Awards All-NFL Team NFL Most Valuable Player Award NFL Offensive Player of the Year Award NFL Defensive Player of the Year Award NFL Rookie of the Year Award NFL Comeback Player of the Year Award George Halas Award :''Note: The George Halas Award should not be confused with the Newspaper Enterprise Association's George Halas Trophy tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Steadman
John Steadman (February 14, 1927 – January 1, 2001) was an American sportswriter for ''The Baltimore Sun''. His career spanned seven decades and he attended and reported on every Super Bowl from its inception until his death. Background Steadman was a student at Blessed Sacrament School on Old York Road and East 41st Street. Following his graduation after the eighth grade, heattended Baltimore City College high school where he played catcher on the varsity team. This propelled him to try his hand as a minor league baseball player. He decided to leave baseball in order to become a sportswriter. Career He was originally hired by the ''Baltimore News-Post'' in 1945 as a sports reporter, earning 14 dollars a week. In 1952, Steadman revealed that Baltimore would regain an NFL franchise. Steadman would attend every Baltimore Football game from 1947 to December 10, 2000, a streak of 719 games. He was also one of only eight writers to attend all 34 Super Bowls, through Super Bowl XXXI ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York Daily News
The New York ''Daily News'', officially titled the ''Daily News'', is an American newspaper based in Jersey City, NJ. It was founded in 1919 by Joseph Medill Patterson as the ''Illustrated Daily News''. It was the first U.S. daily printed in tabloid format. It reached its peak circulation in 1947, at 2.4 million copies a day. As of 2019 it was the eleventh-highest circulated newspaper in the United States. Today's ''Daily News'' is not connected to the earlier '' New York Daily News'', which shut down in 1906. The ''Daily News'' is owned by parent company Tribune Publishing. This company was acquired by Alden Global Capital, which operates its media properties through Digital First Media, in May 2021. After the Alden acquisition, alone among the newspapers acquired from Tribune Publishing, the ''Daily News'' property was spun off into a separate subsidiary called Daily News Enterprises. History ''Illustrated Daily News'' The ''Illustrated Daily News'' was founded by Patters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norm Miller (writer)
Norm Miller (October 28, 1917 – July 14, 2005) was an American sportswriter best known as the New York Giants beat writer for the New York Daily News. He was awarded the Dick McCann Memorial Award by the Pro Football Hall of Fame The Pro Football Hall of Fame is the hall of fame for professional American football, located in Canton, Ohio. Opened on September 7, , the Hall of Fame enshrines exceptional figures in the sport of professional football, including players, coach ... in 1981. References Sportswriters from New York (state) 1917 births 2005 deaths 20th-century American journalists American male journalists {{US-journalist-1910s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cleveland Plain Dealer
''The Plain Dealer'' is the major newspaper of Cleveland, Ohio, United States. In fall 2019, it ranked 23rd in U.S. newspaper circulation, a significant drop since March 2013, when its circulation ranked 17th daily and 15th on Sunday. As of May 2019, ''The Plain Dealer'' had 94,838 daily readers and 171,404 readers on Sunday. ''The Plain Dealers media market, the Cleveland-Akron Designated Market Area, has a population of 3.8 million people, making it the 19th-largest market in the United States. In August 2013, ''The Plain Dealer'' reduced home delivery to four days a week, including Sunday. A daily version of ''The Plain Dealer'' is available electronically as well as in print at stores, newsracks and newsstands. History Founding The newspaper was established in January 1842 when two brothers, Joseph William Gray and Admiral Nelson Gray, took over ''The Cleveland Advertiser'' and changed its name to ''The Plain Dealer''. ''The Cleveland Advertiser'' had been published fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chuck Heaton
Charles Heaton Jr. (October 22, 1917 – February 14, 2008) was an American sports news columnist, journalist, commentator, and reporter. He worked for 50 years as a sportswriter for ''The Cleveland Plain Dealer'' in Cleveland, Ohio. He was the father of actress Patricia Heaton of ''Everybody Loves Raymond'' and '' The Middle''. He was also the father of Michael Heaton, who was a writer and movie critic for the ''Cleveland Plain Dealer'' and served for 30 years as the newspaper's "Minister of Culture." Michael is the author of four books, and is the screenwriter for Hallmark's movie, ''The Christmas Heart.'' Among the many awards he received during his career was the 1980 Dick McCann Memorial Award, given by the Pro Football Writers Association for distinguished reporting. After his death from pneumonia at the age of 90, the Press Club in Cleveland established the annual Chuck Heaton Award, given to a print, radio, online or television journalist "who best exemplifies the sensit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pittsburgh Press
''The Pittsburgh Press'' (formerly ''The Pittsburg Press'' and originally ''The Evening Penny Press'') was a major afternoon daily newspaper published in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from 1884 to 1992. At one time, the ''Press'' was the second largest newspaper in Pennsylvania, behind only ''The Philadelphia Inquirer''. For four years starting in 2011, the brand was revived and applied to an afternoon online edition of the ''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette''. Early history The history of the ''Press'' traces back to an effort by Thomas J. Keenan Jr. to buy ''The Pittsburg Times'' newspaper, at which he was employed as city editor. Joining Keenan in his endeavor were reporter John S. Ritenour of the Pittsburgh ''Post'', Charles W. Houston of the city clerk's office, and U.S. Representative Thomas M. Bayne. After examining the ''Times'' and finding it in a poor state, the group changed course and decided to start a new penny paper in hopes that it would flourish in a local market full of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newspaper Enterprise Association
The Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA) is an editorial column and comic strip newspaper syndication service based in the United States and established in 1902. The oldest syndicate still in operation, the NEA was originally a secondary news service to the Scripps Howard News Service; it later evolved into a general syndicate best known for syndicating the comic strips ''Alley Oop'', ''Our Boarding House'', '' Freckles and His Friends'', ''The Born Loser'', '' Frank and Ernest'', and ''Captain Easy'' / ''Wash Tubbs''; in addition to an annual Christmas comic strip. Along with United Feature Syndicate, the NEA was part of United Media from 1978 to 2011, and is now a division of Andrews McMeel Syndication. The NEA once selected college All-America teams, and presented awards in professional football and professional BA basketball. Corporate history On June 2, 1902, the Newspaper Enterprise Association, based in Cleveland, Ohio, started as a news report service for different Sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murray Olderman
Murray Olderman (March 27, 1922 – June 10, 2020) was an American sports cartoonist and writer. His artwork often accompanied the sports stories he authored. His art also has been used by the Pro Football Hall of Fame and hung above the Hall of Fame busts. The Hall of Fame made all of the artwork digital so it must be accessed by visitors to the hall through electronic kiosks. Early life and education Olderman was born in Manhattan, New York, the son of Jennie (Steinberg), a homemaker, and Max Olderman, who worked in the garment industry. His parents were Russian Jewish immigrants. He aspired to be a sportswriter at an early age. When he was in his teens, he wrote sports columns for a county weekly. He practiced drawing cartoons through trial and error. One of his drawings was first published in '' The Columbia Missourian'' during his junior year at the University of Missouri. Olderman graduated from University of Missouri with a B.J. degree, Stanford University with a B.S. in hu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Green Bay Press-Gazette
The ''Green Bay Press-Gazette'' is a newspaper whose primary coverage is of northeastern Wisconsin, including Green Bay. It was founded as the ''Green Bay Gazette'' in 1866 as a weekly paper, becoming a daily newspaper in 1871. The ''Green Bay Gazette'' merged with its major competitor, the ''Green Bay Free Press'' in 1915, assuming its current title. The newspaper was purchased by Gannett in March 1980. In 1972, an internal labor dispute led to the creation of the ''Green Bay News-Chronicle'' by striking workers. In 2004, the ''News-Chronicle'' was taken over by ''Press-Gazette'' publisher, Gannett, who closed it in 2005. Its sports section includes extensive coverage of the local NFL franchise, the Green Bay Packers; since Gannett's purchase of the ''Milwaukee Journal Sentinel The ''Milwaukee Journal Sentinel'' is a daily morning broadsheet printed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where it is the primary newspaper. It is also the largest newspaper in the state of Wisconsin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Daley
Art Daley (born Arthur James Lunkenheimer August 16, 1916 – February 19, 2011) was an American sportswriter who is best known for his over 60 years covering the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League from 1941 to 2011. Early life Daley grew up in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, and served in the United States Army during World War II. Career Daley served as a sports writer for the Green Bay Press-Gazette for 21 years. He was a charter member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame selection committee, serving on it until 1998. Along with Jack Yuenger, Daley founded the Green Bay Packers Yearbook in 1960, and was an original member of both the board of directors and the selection committee of the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame. In 1978, Daley joined "Packer Report", where he was a writer until his death. Honors Daley was inducted into the Packers Hall of Fame as a contributor in 1993, and in 1977 was awarded the Dick McCann Memorial Award from the Pro Football Hall of Fame The Pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
