Joseph Romanos (born 1957) is a New Zealand journalist, author and broadcaster focusing mainly on sport.

Life and career

Romanos attended St Patrick's College in

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. His father Richie Romanos played

cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by str ...

for

in the 1951–52

Plunket Shield New Zealand has had a domestic first-class cricket championship since the 1906–07 season. Since the 2009–10 season it has been known by its original name of the Plunket Shield. History The Plunket Shield competition was instigated in Octob ...

season. Romanos has worked on a number of New Zealand newspapers. In 2008 he became editor of ''

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'' and in 2012 he also became '' The Dominion Post's'' Metro chief reporter. He was the

New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame The New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame is an organisation commemorating New Zealand's greatest sporting triumphs. It was inaugurated as part of the New Zealand sesquicentenary celebrations in 1990. Some 160 members have been inducted into the Hall o ...

's executive director from 1995 to 1998. Romanos and his wife Gael Woods have four children. Together with Phil Murray, the couple founded the publishing house Trio Books in 2003. In October 2016, Romanos joined the

Wellington City Council Wellington City Council is a territorial authority in New Zealand, governing the country's capital city Wellington, and ''de facto'' second-largest city (if the commonly considered parts of Wellington, the Upper Hutt, Porirua, Lower Hutt and ...

as Chief Advisor to Justin Lester in the Mayor's Office. In January 2017, while driving from

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, he and Lester were involved in a crash. All the passengers walked away unhurt, however the Council vehicle they were travelling in was damaged beyond repair.

Books

As sole author

*'' Chris Lewis: All the Way to Wimbledon'' 1984 *''Makers of Champions: Great NZ Coaches'' 1987 *''Famous Fullbacks'' 1989 *''Famous Flankers'' 1990 *''Great New Zealand Cricket Families: A Celebration'' 1992 *''A Century of Great New Zealand Cricketers'' 1993 *''Arthur's Boys: The Golden Era of New Zealand Athletics'' 1994 *''Tortured Genius'' 1995 (on

Martin Crowe Martin David Crowe (22 September 1962 – 3 March 2016) was a New Zealand cricketer, Test and ODI captain as well as a commentator. He played for the New Zealand national cricket team between 1982 and 1995, and is regarded as one of the count ...

) *''Black'' 1997 (a novel) *'' John Reid: A Cricketing Life'' 2000 *''

Merv Wallace Walter Mervyn Wallace (19 December 1916 – 21 March 2008) was a New Zealand cricketer and former Test match captain. Former New Zealand captain John Reid called him "the most under-rated cricketer to have worn the silver fern." He was nick ...

: A Cricket Master'' 2000 *''Judas Game: The Betrayal of New Zealand Rugby'' 2002 *''Great Sporting Rivals'' 2004 *''Cricket Confidential: The Game's Greatest Players, Matches and Disputes'' 2005 *''New Zealand's Top 100 History-Makers'' 2005, 2008 *''New Zealand's Top 100 Sports History-Makers'' 2006 *''Winning Ways: Champion New Zealand Coaches Reveal Their Secrets'' 2007 *''Our Olympic Century'' 2008 *''Cricket Portraits: A Century of New Zealand's Best'' 2008 *''Long or Short?: The Story of New Zealand Squash'' 2010 *''100 Māori Sports Heroes'' 2012 *''Unforgettable: Defining Moments in New Zealand Sport'' 2014

As co-author

*''100 Great Rugby Characters'' (with Grant Harding; illustrations by Murray Webb) 1991 *''Champions: New Zealand Sports Greats of the 20th Century'' (with Ron Palenski) 2000 *''The Basin: An Illustrated History of the Basin Reserve'' (with Don Neely) 2003 *''Lancaster Park: An Illustrated History'' (with Don Neely) 2006 *''No Ordinary Man: The Remarkable Life of Arthur Porritt'' (with Graeme Woodfield) 2008 *''Capital People: The Best of the Wellingtonian Interviews'' (with Rebecca Thomson) 2011

As editor

*''The Big Black Netball Book'' (with Gael Woods) 1992 *''Sporting Life: The Best of Broadcaster, Peter Sellers'' 1992 *''We Knocked the Bastard Off: Great New Zealand Sports Quotes'' 1994 *''I'm Absolutely Buggered: More Great New Zealand Sports Quotes'' 1994 *''Radio Sport New Zealand Sporting Records & Lists'' 2001

As collaborator with principal author

*''Lois Muir on Netball'' (by Lois Muir) 1985 *''Fastbreak'' (by John Dybvig) 1986 *''John Dybvig on Basketball'' (by John Dybvig) 1987 *''The Innings of a Lifetime'' (by

Walter Hadlee Walter Arnold Hadlee (4 June 1915 – 29 September 2006) was a New Zealand cricketer and Test match captain. He played domestic first-class cricket for Canterbury and Otago. Three of his five sons, Sir Richard, Dayle and Barry played crick ...

) 1993 *''Sandra Edge: Full Circle: An Autobiography'' (by

Sandra Edge Sandra Helen Edge (born 26 August 1962 in Te Puia Springs) is a New Zealand netball coach and former international netball player. She captained the New Zealand under 21 team in 1982, aged 17. She debuted in the Silver Ferns in Melbourne in 19 ...

) 1995 *''Striking Out'' (by Kevin Herlihy) 1997 *''Legends of the All Blacks: One: The Book of the Series'' (by Keith Quinn) 1999 *''Outrageous Rugby Moments: Stories of Controversy, Humour, Scandal and Disgrace'' (by Keith Quinn) 2001 *''Outrageous Cricket Moments: The Underhanded, the Undermined, the Underperforming and, of Course, the Underarm'' (by

Ian Smith Ian Douglas Smith (8 April 1919 – 20 November 2007) was a Rhodesian politician, farmer, and fighter pilot who served as Prime Minister of Rhodesia (known as Southern Rhodesia until October 1964 and now known as Zimbabwe) from 1964 to 1 ...

) 2003

References

External links

Catalogue
at the National Library of New Zealand
Trio Books: Joseph Romanos
{{DEFAULTSORT:Romanos, Joseph 1957 births Living people New Zealand sports historians New Zealand sportswriters New Zealand broadcasters New Zealand journalists Cricket historians and writers Rugby historians and writers