Michael Farber (born September 1951) is an American author and sports journalist, and was a writer with ''

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'' from 1994 to 2014. He covered mostly

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and olympic sports. Before 1994, Farber spent 15 years as a sports columnist for the ''

Montreal Gazette The ''Montreal Gazette'', formerly titled ''The Gazette'', is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Three other daily English-language newspapers shuttered at various times during the second half of th ...

,'' and previously wrote for the ''

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,'' and the ''Sun Bulletin.'' Farber is a commentator for CJAD 800 AM in

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, and on

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's ''The Reporters.'' Farber grew up in Bayonne, New Jersey.Farber, Michael
"Garden State: Returning to his hometown, Bayonne, the author marvels at the incongruity of an ultra exclusive golf club sharing a zip code with a city that's best known as a punch line"
''

'', November 12, 2007. Accessed December 26, 2017. "Bayonne is my hometown, in that I lived there for the formative years between fifth and 10th grade and the summers afterward." He graduated from

Rutgers University Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's College, and was ...

in 1973, and is a Phi Beta Kappa Society member. He relocated to

in 1979. He won the

Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award The Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award is an accolade presented annually to a print newspaper columnist or reporter in recognition of their achievements covering the game of ice hockey. The award is "to recognize distinguished members of the newspaper ...

in 2003, and is a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame selection committee.

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1951 births Living people American male journalists American sports journalists Canadian male journalists Canadian sports journalists Elmer Ferguson Award winners Journalists from New Jersey Montreal Gazette people Rutgers University alumni Sports Illustrated Writers from Bayonne, New Jersey Writers from Montreal {{US-journalist-1950s-stub