Sports columnists
There's a full lineup of all-star sports columnists at The Daily News. Clicking on the picture of one of the columnists below will take you right to their most recent column.
Mike Lupica
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Mike Lupica is one of the best-known and widely read sports columnists in the United States. He began his newspaper career with the New York Post in 1975, at the age of 23, covering the Knicks. In 1977, he became the youngest columnist ever at a New York paper when he joined the Daily News. His work has also appeared in Newsday, The National, Esquire, Sport, World Tennis, Tennis, Travel & Leisure Golf, Playboy, Sports Illustrated and Parade.
Filip Bondy
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Bondy first worked at The News in 1983, after a decade in news, features and sports with the defunct Paterson News and Bergen Record (he panned "Evita" as a theater critic, predicting it wouldn't last a week). He returned to The News as a columnist in 1993, following a stint at the New York Times. During his eclectic career, he was a beat reporter covering the Yankees, Nets, Knicks, Rangers, Tonya Harding and the national marbles championships.
Lisa Olson
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Lisa Olson joined the Daily News sports staff in 1997. Previously she was a sports columnist for the Sydney Morning Herald and the Daily Telegraph. She also was a sports reporter for the Boston Herald. She has covered everything from cricket in Pakistan to baseball in Mexico to rugby in New Zealand, though her favorite sport is Aussie Rules Football. She lives in Manhattan.
Bill Gallo
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Bill Gallo landed a job on the Daily News in 1941, where he stayed for seven months until he went away to war. Under the GI Bill, he went to Columbia University and later to the School of Visual Arts. Gallo was transferred to the Sports Department in 1960, and started doing sports cartoons. He has won the 'Reuben' from the National Cartoonist Society 10 times.
Bill Madden
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Bill Madden joined the Daily News in 1978 after nine years at United Press International where he covered baseball, track and field and Olympics. He was the Daily News' Yankee beat writer from 1980-88 before becoming the News' national baseball columnist. He is the author of four books including "Pride of October: What It Was to Be Young and a Yankee," "Damned Yankees," in collaboration with Moss Klein of the Newark Star-Ledger, and two biographies of Don Zimmer.
Gary Myers
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Gary Myers has been the NFL columnist for the New York Daily News since 1989. Prior to that, he covered the Dallas Cowboys and the NFL for the Dallas Morning News from 1981-89. Graduated with a B.S. in Newspaper Journalism from Syracuse University in 1976. Was the Inside Information reporter for HBO's Inside The NFL from 1989-2001 and since 2002 has been a co-host of This Week In Football on the YES Network.
Mitch Lawrence
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Mitch Lawrence has been the NBA Columnist for the Daily News since 1995. Previously, he covered the Nets for a season for the News, and the Dallas Mavericks for seven seasons for the Dallas Morning News. After graduating from Temple University, he worked for newspapers in Syracuse and Rochester, N.Y. He is a native of Montclair, N.J.
John Harper
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John Harper has been a baseball columnist at the Daily News since 1994. He has authored or co-authored five books, including "Pride and Pinstripes," Mel Stottlemyre's autobiography, which is being published in April, 2007. Harper counts his first-person stories over the years among his favorites, from hitting against Dwight Gooden, to trying out for the Blue Jays' replacement team, to catching Tom Glavine.
Dick Weiss
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Dick Weiss has covered national college football and basketball for the News for the past 13 years. He is a past president of the Football Writers Association and College Basketball Writers and has co-authored and authored seven books on college basketball. He has covered 34 Final Fours and 23 national championship games in college football. And he loves watching games at the Palestra.
Hank Gola
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Hank Gola has covered sports for 32 years, the last 14 at the Daily News, where he is lead golf writer and NFL writer. Gola was the beat writer at the New York Post when the Giants won their two Super Bowl championships, and he co-authored "Hard Nose" with Jim Burt following the 1986 season. He lives in Parsippany, N.J., with his wife Lillian.
Bob Raissman
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Bob Raissman has written the "Tuning In" column since 1987. Prior to joining the Daily News he worked for the Winston Salem (N.C.) Journal, the Greenville (S.C.) Piedmont, the Havre de Grace (Md.) Record, Port Lavaca (Texas) Wave and Advertising Age Magazine. A native of New Rochelle, N.Y., he graduated from the University of Tennessee. Raissman was a recipient of Columbia University's Walter Bagehot fellowship in business and economics. He resides in Manhattan.
Sherry Ross
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Sherry Ross joined the Daily News sports staff in 1995 after working three years for the New Jersey Devils. In 1992, she became the first woman to broadcast a male professional sports team as the Devils' color commentator on WABC radio. A sports journalist since 1978, and a Jersey girl all her life, she counts as her passions hockey, horses, and Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band.
Tim Smith
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Born in Macon, Georgia. Graduated from the University of Georgia in 1982 with a Bachelor's Degree in Journalism. Worked at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution from 1983-87, The Cincinnati Enquirer from 1987-91 and The New York Times from 1991-2000. Started at Daily News in April 2000 as the boxing columnist. Winner of the Nat Fleischer Award for Writing Excellence by the Boxing Writers Association of America in 2006.
Vic Ziegel
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Vic Ziegel has been writing for the Daily News since 1990. He had been sports editor. His other newspaper job was with the New York Post, the real New York Post. He attended City College of New York and the Lion's Head. He co-authored The Non-Runner's Book, a best-seller, and was a co-creator of the TV sit-com Ball Four, a dud.
Rich Cimini
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Rich Cimini is a Brooklyn native and a graduate of Sachem High School (Lake Ronkonkoma, N.Y.) and Syracuse University. He came to the Daily News in 1996, after spending 11 years at Newsday. He started covering the Jets in 1989, when the coach was Joe Walton. Since then, the Jets have gone through seven coaches (maybe he's bad karma). Currently, he lives on Long Island with his wife Michelle and two kids.
Andy Clayton
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Andy Clayton is a senior editor for the Daily News' online edition. He joined the web staff in 2003. A graduate of the University of Denver, Clayton previously spent five years as the chief sports editor for the e-publishing company InfoBeat. When he isn't publishing the News' award-winning sports section to the web, Clayton watches the world of sports from the comfort of his couch in Fishkill, N.Y.
David Boroff
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David Boroff is a Senior Web Editor for the Daily News. Boroff, who comments regularly on the ups and downs of his beloved Knicks, also lives and dies with the Mets and Jets. As a New York native, he loves just about everything about the city and has no plans to leave anytime soon. A journalist for 15 years, he joined the Daily News in July 2006.
Mighty Quinn
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Mighty Quinn's first day at the Daily News was June 16, 1968, just two days after he graduated from Christ the King H.S. in Middle Village, Queens. Thirty-eight years later, the Rosedale, Queens, resident hasn't slowed down. Mighty writes a short story every day, capped off (hopefully) with a winning selection, as he tries to beat the system and show a surplus (in Monopoly money) by year's end.
The Slammer
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It's hard to believe, but the Slammer has been covering wrestling for the Daily News for nearly twenty years. After graduating high school (in only seven years) he joined the News and one glorious day was offered the dream assignment of covering his favorite sport – and he was allowed to wear a mask.
Alexandra Kenney
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Before joining the News, Alex Kenney was leisure sports editor for a travel trade paper, where her assignments included going on African safaris, rafting western U.S. rivers, cruising the Amazon, skiing hut-to-hut in Norway and tackling European Alpine ski areas plus the Canadian and American Rockies. Many of her adventures were shared with the late Jerry Kenney, her husband and Daily News outdoorsman for decades.