Contact: Dave Goren, Executive Director [email protected] 336-655-2976 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE EMRICK, LEY, KING, KORNHEISER ELECTED TO NSMA HALL OF FAME BURKE, WOJNAROWSKI WIN NATIONAL AWARDS McISAAC, WHALEY WIN IN NEW HAMPSHIRE WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (January 14, 2019) – Mike “Doc” Emrick, Bob Ley, Peter King, and Tony Kornheiser have been voted into the National Sports Media Association Hall of Fame and will be inducted this June, NSMA executive director Dave Goren announced. Goren also said that NSMA members voted Doris Burke as the 2018 National Sportscaster of the Year, Adrian Wojnarowski as the 2018 National Sportswriter of the Year; and members in each state elected 109 state Sportscasters and Sportswriters of the Year from 49 states, plus the District of Columbia. They will be honored during the 60th annual NSMA Awards Weekend, June 22-24, 2019 in Winston-Salem, N.C. Justin McIsaac, color commentator on the UNH Wildcats Sports Network/Learfield, was voted the 2018 New Hampshire Sportscaster of the Year. It’s his first state win. Mike Whaley, of the Foster’s Daily Democrat, won his second New Hampshire Sportswriter of the Year Award. Emrick has served as the lead play-by-play voice for National Hockey League telecasts on NBC Sports and NBC Sports Network since 2011, just the latest stint in a hockey broadcasting career that began in 1973, as the voice of the Port Huron Flags. He has won the prestigious Foster Hewitt Award from the Hockey Hall of Fame and is enshrined in the United States Hockey Hall of Fame. He is a three-time winner of the NSMA’s National Sportscaster of the Year Award. Ley is synonymous with ESPN, beginning as a SportsCenter anchor on the network’s third day of operation. A longtime fixture on the SportsCenter desk, Ley has spent the better part of the last 28 years as the host of ESPN’s award-winning Outside the Lines program, which examines issues of the day in the sports world that go beyond the playing field and arena. After getting his start in the newspaper business, King spent 29 years covering pro football at Sports Illustrated. His last 20 years at SI, he became known for his weekly Monday Morning Quarterback column, which frequently ran 6,000-to- 8,000 words and covered everything NFL. Last July, King moved to NBCSports.com, where his Football Morning in America column runs each Monday. Kornheiser spent 35 years as a sportswriter at the Washington Post, becoming a sports columnist for one of the nation’s premier sports sections in 1984. He branched out into radio, with The Tony Kornhesier Show in 1992. The show is now available as a podcast. And since 1992, Kornheiser and former Washington Post co-worker Michael Wilbon have co- hosted ESPN’s popular Pardon the Interruption. Burke first female National winner No stranger to firsts, Burke becomes the first woman to win one of the NSMA’s National Awards. The former Providence College basketball player began her broadcasting career calling games for her alma mater in 1990. A succession of steps up the ladder included turns as a college basketball analyst for the Big East and Atlantic 10, before she landed at ESPN. Since 1991, Burke has served as an analyst and sideline reporter covering college basketball, the WNBA and NBA. She became a full-time ESPN NBA game analyst before the 2017-2018 season and serves as the lead NBA sideline reporter 1 for the NBA Playoffs on ESPN and NBA Finals on ABC. The winner of several awards, Burke was named the 2018 winner of the Curt Gowdy Award from the Basketball Hall of Fame, for her outstanding contributions to basketball. Wojnarowski has now won back-to-back NSMA National Sportswriter of the Year Awards, becoming the tenth person to do so. Known for his NBA scoops, or “Woj Bombs,” ESPN’s Senior NBA Insider left Yahoo Sports after nearly ten years, and on July 1, 2017, returned to his hometown of Bristol, Conn. to work at ESPN. Before Yahoo, Wojnarowski wrote for The Record (Bergen County, NJ), Fresno Bee and Waterbury Republican-American. He is a two-time winner of the Associated Press Spots Editors’ “Columnist of the Year” award. Notable among the state winners ● Indiana University radio play-by-play announcer Don Fischer was voted Indiana Sportscaster of the Year for the 26th time. ● Kevin Calabro, the Portland Trailblazers’ TV play-by-play announcer is the Oregon Sportscaster of the Year for the first time. He won the Washington Sportscaster of the Year Award nine times. ● Calabro (Trailblazers TV), Ralph Lawler (Clippers TV), Steve Buckhantz (Wizards TV), Eric Reid (Heat TV), Steve Holman (Hawks radio), Mike Gorman (Celtics TV), Ian Eagle (Nets TV), Marc Zumoff (Sixers TV), Mark Followill (Mavs TV). There were 41 first-time winners of the state awards; two more than in 2017. * * * Below is a list of all of the Hall of Fame inductees, National and State winners, with number of times won in parentheses. 2018 NSMA Hall of Fame Inductees HALL OF FAME SPORTSCASTERS Mike ‘Doc’ Emrick, NBC Sports, et al Bob Ley, ESPN HALL OF FAME SPORTSWRITER Peter King, NBCSports.com, Sports Illustrated, et al Tony Kornheiser, Washington Post 2017 NSMA NATIONAL WINNERS NATIONAL SPORTSCASTER OF THE YEAR Doris Burke, ESPN/ABC (1) NATIONAL SPORTSWRITER OF THE YEAR Adrian Wojnarowski, ESPN (2) 2018 NSMA STATE WINNERS ALABAMA SPORTSCASTER OF THE YEAR Lauren Sisler, AL.com/ESPN, Birmingham (2) 2 ALABAMA SPORTSWRITER OF THE YEAR Cecil Hurt, Tuscaloosa News, TideSports.com, Tuscaloosa (2) ARIZONA SPORTSCASTER OF THE YEAR Jeff Munn, ASU Women's Basketball, Tempe (2) ARIZONA SPORTSWRITER OF THE YEAR Nick Piecoro, Arizona Republic, Phoenix (1) ARKANSAS SPORTSCASTER OF THE YEAR Phil Elson, Razorback IMG Sports Network/ESPN Arkansas, Little Rock (3) ARKANSAS SPORTSWRITER OF THE YEAR Paul Boyd, NW Arkansas Democrat Gazette, Fayetteville (1) CALIFORNIA SPORTSCASTER OF THE YEAR Ralph Lawler, Los Angeles Clippers TV/FOX Sports West, Prime Ticket, Los Angeles (1) CALIFORNIA SPORTSWRITER OF THE YEAR (TIE) Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco (3) Susan Slusser, San Francisco Chronicle (1) COLORADO SPORTSCASTER OF THE YEAR Vic Lombardi, Altitude TV/KSE Radio, Denver (2) COLORADO SPORTSWRITER OF THE YEAR Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, Denver (1) CONNECTICUT SPORTSCASTER OF THE YEAR Rich Coppola, WTIC-TV, Hartford (9) CONNECTICUT SPORTSWRITER OF THE YEAR Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, Hartford (5) DELAWARE SPORTSCASTER OF THE YEAR Matt Janus, Wilmington Blue Rocks, Wilmington (3) DELAWARE SPORTSWRITER OF THE YEAR Andy Walter, Delaware State News, Dover (4) DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA SPORTSCASTER OF THE YEAR Steve Buckhantz, Wizards/NBC Sports Washington (1) DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA SPORTSCASTER OF THE YEAR Barry Svrluga, Washington Post, Washington (3) FLORIDA SPORTSCASTER OF THE YEAR Eric Reid, Miami Heat/FOX Sports Sun (2) FLORIDA SPORTSWRITER OF THE YEAR Marc Topkin, Tampa Bay Times, St. Petersburg (2) GEORGIA SPORTSCASTER OF THE YEAR (TIE) Steve Holman Atlanta Hawks Radio Network, Atlanta (3) Zach Klein, WSB-TV, Atlanta (1) GEORGIA SPORTSWRITER OF THE YEAR Steve Hummer, Atlanta Journal Constitution, Atlanta (10) 3 HAWAII SPORTSCASTER OF THE YEAR Kanoa Leahey, Spectrum Sports/ESPN 900, Honolulu (2) HAWAII SPORTSWRITER OF THE YEAR Stephen Tsai, Honolulu Star Advertiser, Honolulu (6) IDAHO SPORTSCASTER OF THE YEAR Paul J. Schneider, KBOI Radio, Boise (1) IDAHO SPORTSWRITER OF THE YEAR B. J. Rains, Idaho Press, Nampa (2) ILLINOIS SPORTSCASTER OF THE YEAR Pat Hughes, Chicago Cubs Radio Network/670 The Score, Chicago (*9) ILLINOIS SPORTSWRITER OF THE YEAR Rick Morrissey, Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago (1) INDIANA SPORTSCASTER OF THE YEAR Don Fischer, Indiana Hoosier Radio Network/Learfield (26) INDIANA SPORTSWRITER OF THE YEAR **Terry Hutchens, CNHI Sports, Anderson (6) IOWA SPORTSCASTER OF THE YEAR Keith Murphy, WHO-TV, Des Moines (4) IOWA SPORTSWRITER OF THE YEAR Tommy Birch, Des Moines Register, Des Moines (1) KANSAS SPORTSCASTER OF THE YEAR Wyatt Thompson, K-State Radio Network/Learfield (4) KANSAS SPORTSWRITER OF THE YEAR Tom Keegan, Lawrence Journal-World, Lawrence (3) KENTUCKY SPORTSCASTER OF THE YEAR (TIE) Kent Spencer, WHAS-TV, Louisville (2) Kent Taylor, WAVE-TV, Louisville (2) KENTUCKY SPORTSWRITER OF THE YEAR John Clay, Lexington Herald-Leader, Lexington (6) LOUISIANA SPORTSCASTER OF THE YEAR Ed Daniels, WGNO-TV, New Orleans (2) LOUISIANA SPORTSWRITER OF THE YEAR (TIE) Brett Martel, The Associated Press, New Orleans (1) Nick Underhill, The Advocate, New Orleans (1) MAINE SPORTSCASTER OF THE YEAR Jessica Gagne, WCSH-TV, Portland (1) MAINE SPORTSWRITER OF THE YEAR Mike Lowe, Portland Press-Herald, Portland (3) 4 MARYLAND SPORTSCASTER OF THE YEAR Johnny Holliday, Terrapin Sports Network/MASN, College Park (2) MARYLAND SPORTSWRITER OF THE YEAR Jamison Hensley, ESPN.com, Baltimore (1) MASSACHUSETTS SPORTSCASTER OF THE YEAR Mike Gorman, Celtics TV/NBCSports Boston, Boston (2) MASSACHUSETTS SPORTSWRITER OF THE YEAR Dan Shaughnessy, Boston Globe, Boston (13) MICHIGAN SPORTSCASTER OF THE YEAR Brad Galli, WXYZ-TV, Detroit (1) MICHIGAN SPORTSWRITER OF THE YEAR Angelique Chengelis, Detroit News, Detroit (1) MINNESOTA SPORTSCASTER OF THE YEAR Mark Rosen, WCCO-TV, Minneapolis (2) MINNESOTA SPORTSWRITER OF THE YEAR Jon Krawczynski, The Athletic, Minneapolis (1) MISSISSIPPI SPORTSCASTER OF THE YEAR Richard Cross , Supertalk Mississippi/Ole Miss Radio Network/SEC Network , Oxford (1) MISSISSIPPI SPORTSWRITER OF THE YEAR Rick Cleveland, Syndicated Columnist, Jackson (11) MISSOURI SPORTSCASTER OF THE YEAR Mike Kelly, Missouri Tiger Radio Network,