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 […]
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PFWA officers, board elected for 2019-2020 seasons; Rooney Scholarship recipient announced
At the PFWA Annual Meeting in Atlanta’s Georgia World Congress Center on February 1 during Super Bowl LIII week, the PFWA membership elected a slate of officers and board members for the 2019-2020 seasons. Bob GlauberNewsdayPFWA President 2019-2020 Bob Glauber, national football columnist for Newsday, who became the 29th PFWA president in April in a […]
PFWA announces 2014 Dick Connor Writing Awards
Michael Schottey of Bleacher Report, Michael Lev of the Orange County Register, Scott Pitoniak of the Rochester Business Journal, Ralph Vacchiano of the New York Daily News, Seth Wickersham of ESPN the Magazine and Kyle J. Rodriguez of ColtsAuthority.com and Bleacher Report all won first place in their respective categories in the Professional Football Writers […]
PFWA announces 2013 Dick Connor Writing Awards
Jason Cole, formerly of Yahoo! Sports, won two first-place awards, while Jason Wilde of ESPNWisconsin.com, David Moore of the Dallas Morning News, Seth Wickersham of ESPN the Magazine and Nate Dunlevy of ColtsAuthority.com also won first place in their respective categories in the Professional Football Writers of America’s 2013 Dick Connor Writing Awards. The Connor Awards […]