Joseph Santoliquito

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Joseph A. Santoliquito is an award-winning sportswriter based in the Philadelphia area.

He has written feature stories for SI.com, ESPN.com, NFL.com, MLB.com, The Philadelphia Inquirer and also The Philadelphia Daily News. He currently works for Ring Magazine, considered the "Bible of Boxing," where he's worked since October 1997 and has been the managing editor since 2004. In 2006, he was nominated for an Emmy Award for a special project piece for ESPN.com called "Love at First Beep," about blind baseball.[1]

Santoliquito is most noted for his feature of the tragic story of Pennsylvania high school wrestler A.J. Detwiler[2] that was the top story on ESPN.com on February 15, 2006. The story was turned into an ESPN SportsCenter feature on June 25, 2006, and later into a feature on HBO's Real Sports. In May 2012, he wrote a compelling piece for RingTV.com on Olympic gold medal boxer David Reid, which was picked up nationally by Deadspin. He has received four Boxing Writers of America Association awards in 2002, 2007 and 2012 (2). He was selected as Soccer Writer of the Year by the Philadelphia Soccer Coaches Association in 1998.

Santoliquito currently writes a very popular sports blog in the Philadelphia area for CBSPhilly.com and is a frequent guest on 94 WIP-FM, the all-sports talk station in Philadelphia.

Notable works

References

  1. ↑ "Joe Santoliquito - Philadelphia Daily News". Retrieved 2010-11-06. 
  2. ↑ ESPN

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