Philip Mark Jasner (March 24, 1942 – December 3, 2010) was a sports journalist in

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Formative years

Jasner was born in Philadelphia on March 24, 1942.

Professional life

Phil Jasner joined the staff of the ''

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'' in 1972. Jasner covered the

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and the

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on a full-time basis from 1981 until his death. Jasner was a past president of the Professional Basketball Writers Association and the Philadelphia College Basketball Writers Association. He was the Pennsylvania Sports Writer of the Year for 1999, and was presented the 2004

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, presented by the

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for outstanding contributions to the sport during his career; he was a finalist for the award in 2001, when he also received a lifetime achievement award from the Professional Basketball Writers Association during the

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. Along the way, he has covered high school sports, the

Philadelphia Big 5 The Big 5 is an informal association of college athletic programs in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is not a conference, but rather a group of NCAA Division I basketball schools who compete for the city’s collegiate championship. The Big 5 c ...

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and the

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, the

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, the

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and what was then the Major Indoor Soccer League. He was a graduate of

Temple University Temple University (Temple or TU) is a public state-related research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1884 by the Baptist minister Russell Conwell and his congregation Grace Baptist Church of Philadelphia then called Ba ...

, where he worked at

The Temple News ''The Temple News'' (''TTN'') is the editorially independent weekly newspaper of Temple University. It prints 6,000 copies to be distributed primarily on Temple's Main Campus every Tuesday. A staff of 25, supported by more than 150 writers, is re ...

, and spent his early professional days at the Pottstown (Pa.) Mercury, Montgomery Newspapers (Fort Washington, Pa.), the Norristown (Pa.) Times-Herald and the Trentonian.

Death

Jasner died in Philadelphia on December 3, 2010.

References

External links

Phil Jasner at the Philadelphia Daily News
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