Sports Media
Harvey Araton
Harvey Araton, a Pulitzer Prize nominee and longtime Sports of the Times columnist, covered the full range of local, New York, national and international sports in 40 years at the Staten Island Advance, New York Post, Daily News and New York Times. The author of nine books, including Driving Mr. Yogi and When the Garden Was Eden, Araton was the 2017 recipient of the Curt Gowdy Award for excellence in sports journalism, given at the (Read more...)
John Drebinger
John Drebinger, a onetime sprinter who ran the 100 in 10.4 seconds at Curtis High School in 1911, equaling the New York City public-school record, was one of the country’s most respected sportswriters. After starting his career at the Staten Island Advance, Drebinger covered the Yankees, Giants and Dodgers for the New York Times, and wrote the lead story on every World Series game from 1929 to 1963. He was the 1973 recipient of the (Read more...)
Jack Minogue
Jack Minogue, a teacher and Staten Island Advance sportswriter, used his columns to hold politicians and bureaucrats accountable, and advocated for community causes like the indoor track facility opened in 2015. A sandlot baseball coach from the time he was a teenager, barely older than the players, Minogue stepped in when the Island’s men’s leagues were foundering, added a twilight league, and revitalized one of the largest programs in the country.(Read more...)
Jay Price
Jay Price, a Staten Island Advance sportswriter and author of Thanksgiving 1959: When One Last Corner of New York City Was Still Part of Small-Town America, and High School Football Was the Last Thing Guys Did for Love. He wrote the column that led to the creation of the Staten Island Sports Hall of Fame. In four decades as the face of the Advance sports section, Price covered the World Series, the Final Four, the (Read more...)
Hal Squier
Hal Squier became sports editor of the Staten Island Advance in 1923 and stayed 40 years, chronicling the games at every level but relentless in his promotion of local sports, a philosophy that guided the paper’s coverage for decades to come. Squier’s Midget League, the first organized youth program on Staten Island, served as the model for every sandlot program that followed.(Read more...)