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John Canzano is an American sports
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,
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host on Portland's 750 AM "The Game". The show is also syndicated in Eugene. and
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. From 2002 to 2022, he was the lead sports columnist at ''
The Oregonian ''The Oregonian'' is a daily newspaper based in Portland, Oregon, United States, owned by Advance Publications. It is the oldest continuously published newspaper on the U.S. west coast, founded as a weekly by Thomas J. Dryer on December 4, 185 ...
'' and a sports commentator on
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-TV, Portland's NBC affiliate. He now writes his
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a
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and hosts a daily radio show called ''The Bald-Faced Truth.''


Early life and education

Canzano was born in
Medford, Oregon Medford is a city in and the county seat of Jackson County, Oregon, in the United States. As of the 2020 United States Census on April 1, 2020, the city had a total population of 85,824 and a metropolitan area population of 223,259, making the Me ...
. He grew up in
Gilroy, California Gilroy is a city in Northern California's Santa Clara County, south of Morgan Hill and north of San Benito County. Gilroy is the southernmost city in the San Francisco Bay Area, with a population of 56,766 as of the 2019 U.S. Census Projection ...
and graduated from
Gilroy High School Gilroy High School is a co-educational public school located in Gilroy, California, that serves the city of Gilroy. A part of the Gilroy Unified School District, is one of two public comprehensive high schools in the city and has an approximate ...
. He graduated from California State University, Chico, in 1995 with a B.A. in English. While at Chico State, he played baseball.


Career

In his career, Canzano has worked at six daily newspapers including '' The San Jose Mercury News'' and ''
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''. He covered
University of Notre Dame The University of Notre Dame du Lac, known simply as Notre Dame ( ) or ND, is a private Catholic research university in Notre Dame, Indiana, outside the city of South Bend. French priest Edward Sorin founded the school in 1842. The main campu ...
football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...
and
Indiana University Indiana University (IU) is a system of public universities in the U.S. state of Indiana. Campuses Indiana University has two core campuses, five regional campuses, and two regional centers under the administration of IUPUI. *Indiana Universit ...
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as the beat writer during the tenure of coach
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. He is a former national Major League Baseball writer and national NFL writer at the San Jose Mercury News as well. He has also covered five Olympic Games. Canzano was hired as lead sports columnist at ''
The Oregonian ''The Oregonian'' is a daily newspaper based in Portland, Oregon, United States, owned by Advance Publications. It is the oldest continuously published newspaper on the U.S. west coast, founded as a weekly by Thomas J. Dryer on December 4, 185 ...
'' in 2002."Writer from San Jose to join The Oregonian" (November 16, 2002). ''The Oregonian'', Staff Reports, p. D2. He also appears on KGW-TV, where he offers commentary and analysis on sports. Canzano also hosts a radio show called "The Bald-Faced Truth" on Portland's 750 AM "The Game". The radio show airs weekdays from 3-6 p.m. in the Portland metro area. The show is also syndicated in Eugene, Ore. on Fox Sports Eugene (95.7-FM and 1050-AM) and in Klamath Falls, Ore. on KLAD (104.3-FM and 960-AM). He worked as the NFL and Major League Baseball columnist at the San Jose Mercury News and is a member of the Baseball Writers' Association of America. He holds a Baseball Hall of Fame Vote and is a voter for the Heisman Trophy. Canzano's work has also appeared in ''GQ'' magazine and ''
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.'' Canzano left ''The Oregonian'' in March 2022, after 20 years with the newspaper to start his own writing endeavor. In August 2022, he launched a
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podcast centered around the
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with
Jon Wilner Jon is a shortened form of the common given name Jonathan, derived from "YHWH has given", and an alternate spelling of John, derived from "YHWH has pardoned".

Awards and honors

Canzano is a 12-time Associated Press Sports Editors (APSE) award winner. He's won APSE awards in four different writing categories (column, investigative reporting, enterprise and projects), with his most recent awards coming in 2019 and 2018 in the investigative category and in 2016 and 2017 for column writing. In 2008, Canzano was voted America's No. 1 sports columnist among large-circulation newspapers by the APSE. In 2006 and 2007, Canzano finished second in the same category, both times to Bill Plaschke of the Los Angeles Times. In 2010 and again in 2015, the Society of Professional Journalists named Canzano the National Sports Columnist of the Year. The Press Club of Atlantic City recognized Canzano with the National Headliner Award national sportswriter of the year in 2004, 2010 and 2014. Canzano's investigative work and reporting about Brenda Tracy, the survivor of an alleged gang raped by four college football players, was recognized as the best sports writing in 2014 with a first place in the National Headliner Awards. In 2013, Canzano won first place in Special Topic Column Writing in the Best of the West contest for his portfolio of columns that included a column on a soldier who died in action in Afghanistan and Canzano's own experience coaching a girls fourth-grade volleyball team with a player who has Down Syndrome. In 2002, Canzano was named the nation's top investigative sports writer by the Associated Press News Executives Council for his enterprise piece on Carlos Rodriguez, a 21-year-old Dominican basketball star who was masquerading as a 17-year-old high school basketball player. Canzano is a six-time Oregon Sportswriter of the Year winner (2005, 2006, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2021) as named by the
National Sports Media Association (NSMA). In 2016, the NSMA named Canzano the "Broadcaster of the Year" for the state of Oregon.


Personal life

In July 2010, Canzano married Anna Song, then weekend anchor for Portland television station KATU. He and his wife have three daughters: Dakota, Graziana and Sojourner.


The Bald Faced Truth Foundation

In 2009, Canzano co-founded The Bald Faced Truth Foundation, a
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funding extracurricular activities for children.


References


External links


John Canzano column archiveJohn Canzano archive at ''The Oregonian''John Canzano radio archive at 750-AM The GameThe Bald-Faced Truth Radio ShowTM WebsiteThe Bald-Faced Truth FoundationTM Website
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