Vol. LVI, No. 5 September 4, 2019 Hi all, Bob Glauber, PFWA President2018-2020 seasonsNewsdayTwitter: @BobGlauber As we begin the regular season, I’d like to catch you up on several items – media policy reminders, remembering two special writers, a note about dues, a reminder about the PFWA’s Art Rooney Scholarship, pool reporter procedures, and other […]
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Don Banks 1962-2019
Longtime NFL reporter Don Banks died Sunday, August 4 in Canton, Ohio after attending the Pro Football Hall of Fame Enshrinement Weekend, where he covered the HOF ceremonies and was in attendance when his good friend Sam Farmer was honored with the Dick McCann Award. Banks’ first story for the Las Vegas Review-Journal was published hours before […]
August 2019 PFWA Newsletter
Vol. LVI, No. 4 August 1, 2019 (more…)
2019 PFWA Connor Writing Contest/2020 Rooney Scholarship details
DICK CONNOR WRITING AWARDS We are now taking entries for the annual Dick Connor Writing Awards, a competition that honors some of the best work in the entire sportswriting community. There are a few important changes, so here goes: Malcolm Moran, director of the Sports Capital Journalism Program at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, will judge the […]
June 2019 PFWA Newsletter
Vol. LVI, No. 3 June 11, 2019 (more…)
Cunningham and Westhoff selected to PFWA 2019 Dr. Z Award class
The late Gunther Cunningham, who spent 33 of his 35 NFL seasons as an assistant coach and was best known for his feared defensive units in Kansas City over two stints and nine seasons as the Chiefs’ defensive coordinator, and Mike Westhoff, who spent 32 seasons as an NFL assistant coach and is regarded as […]