Judges
Deciding who will serve on the panel choosing the 25 members of the inaugural class in the Daily News Sports Hall of Fame was about as daunting a task as picking the formidable list of 100 Hall of Fame candidates.
But we persevered and came up with the perfect mix of experience, insight, knowledge and an appreciation of history. These panelists have covered many of the nominees, traveled with them, followed the ups and downs of their careers and have even known them personally.
Check in with them on Oct. 29, when they'll unveil the first class of the Daily News Sports Hall of Fame.
The Editors...
BILL MADDEN
There is little about the game of baseball that veteran columnist Bill Madden hasn't seen, heard or written about since he joined the Daily News in 1978 after nine years at United Press International. He was the News' Yankee beat writer from 1980-88 before becoming the national baseball columnist. In his 28 years with the paper, Madden has broken numerous major baseball stories, including the news that Joe DiMaggio was dying of lung cancer. He is the author of "Pride of October: What It Was to Be Young and a Yankee," as well as two other books - "Damned Yankees" in collaboration with Moss Klein of the Newark Star-Ledger, and Don Zimmer's best-selling autobiography, "Zim - A Baseball Life."
MIKE GREENBERG
Radio and television personality Mike Greenberg is a native New Yorker who attended the prestigious Stuyvesant High School before heading to Chicago and Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism. Along with former NFL lineman Mike Golic, Greenberg currently hosts the nationally syndicated "Mike & Mike In The Morning" show on ESPN radio and hosts ESPN's "SportsCenter." In addition, Greenberg recently wrote the bestselling book, "Why My Wife Thinks I'm an Idiot."
LEON CARTER
The Daily News' sports editor has been following New York teams since he was a kid growing up in Virginia. His cousins from Long Island are to blame: When they visited, they boasted that New York was the best sports place in the world. Sometimes, they would bring the New York tabs to bolster their arguments. Carter began his career as a copy editor at the Louisville Courier Journal in 1981 and moved to Newsday in 1984. In 1992, he helped create the Sports Journalism Institute, a program designed to train college minorities to be sports writers. The Institute, now in its 13th year, has trained more than 100 students who are now working full-time as sports writers and editors across the country. Carter joined the Daily News in 1994 as assistant sports editor and was named sports editor in 1999. He is one of only four African American sports editors at major papers in the U.S.
BILL GALLO
A Manhattan native, Bill Gallo came to the Daily News in 1941, and remains one of the most influential cartoonists in the country. His characters, "Basement Bertha" and "Yuchie" and, of course, "General Von Steingrabber" are as much a part of the New York sports landscape as Yankee Stadium and Madison Square Garden. Gallo has won the Reuben Award from the National Cartoonist Society 10 times and the Page One Journalism Award from the New York Newspaper Guild 20 times. He is also in the Boxing Hall of Fame.
JOE GOLDSTEIN
PR man extraordinaire Joe Goldstein began his career as an assistant in the Madison Square Garden publicity department in 1951. He started Joe Goldstein PR in 1969 and handled just about every big client and event that came through town (and elsewhere). From Joe Frazier to NBC Sports to the Bob Hope Desert Classic to the Marlboro Cup, the Olympics and Hialeah Park, Joe had a hand in getting the word out. His current clients include ESPN. He is an avid sports historian.
VIC ZIEGEL
New York native Vic Ziegel has been writing for The News since 1990. He attended City College of New York and worked at the New York Post before joining The News. He co-authored "The Non-Runner's Book" and was a co-creator of the TV sitcom "Ball Four." He has written extensively, and we mean extensively, on the phantom search for Bobby Thomson's Shot Heard 'Round the World. He believes the ball is somewhere in his attic.
JIM RICH
Jim Rich has been an editor in New York City for six years and has been The News' deputy Sunday sports editor since 2004. He also writes a weekly handicapping column during the NFL season, as well as columns weighing in on sports' hot-button issues, which appear in The News' award-winning Sunday sports section. Before joining The News, he was an editor at the New York Post and the New Britain Herald in Connecticut.
MICHAEL O'KEEFFE
A member of the Daily News sports investigative team since its inception in 2000, Michael O'Keeffe has covered everything from baseball's steroid scandal to corruption in college recruiting, and, of course, the fraudulent world of sports collectibles.
T.J. QUINN
T.J. Quinn joined The News' sports investigative team in 2002. He spent seven years covering Major League Baseball and is the former chairman of the New York chapter of the Baseball Writers' Association of America. T.J. joined the Daily News in 2000.
LISA OLSON
Sports columnist Lisa Olson joined The News in 1997. Previously, she was a sports columnist for the Sydney Morning Herald and the Daily Telegraph, and a foreign correspondent based in Australia. 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 and soccer in Afghanistan. Her work has been featured in the anthology, "Best American Sports Writing."
ADAM BERKOWITZ & TERI THOMPSON
Adam Berkowitz and Teri Thompson are the editors of this section. Together, they have produced numerous award-winning special sections for the Daily News, including the 125-year retrospective on Madison Square Garden, and several Yankee commemoratives, including a 75th birthday tribute to George Steinbrenner. Berkowitz is the deputy sports editor at The News and Thompson is the editor of the Daily News sports investigative team and the paper's Sunday sports section.
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