What is the name of the American sports journalist, widely known for his blustery, cocksure personality for whom the parody Christmas song 'Merry Christmas in the NFL' depicts him as Santa Claus?
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Buckner &amp; Garcia Buckner & Garcia, was an American musical duo consisting of Jerry Buckner and Gary Garcia from Akron, Ohio. Their first recording was made in 1972, when they performed a novelty song called "Gotta Hear the Beat", which they recorded as Animal Jack. Later, in 1980, they wrote a novelty Christmas song titled "Merry Christmas in the NFL", imagining sports journalist Howard Cosell as Santa Claus. Performed under the pseudonym Willis the Guard & Vigorish, the song reached No. 82 on the Billboard charts despite limited airplay after Cosell found the song offensive. In 1981, the duo wrote a sentimental country theme to back the poem "Footprints in the Sand", performed by Edgel Groves. The duo also wrote the lyrics for extra verses of an extended version of the "WKRP in Cincinnati" theme song in 1982.
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Howard Cosell Howard William Cosell ( ; born Howard William Cohen; March 25, 1918 – April 23, 1995) was an American sports journalist who was widely known for his blustery, cocksure personality. Cosell said of himself, "Arrogant, pompous, obnoxious, vain, cruel, verbose, a showoff. There's no question that I'm all of those things." In its obituary for Cosell, "The New York Times" described Cosell's effect on American sports coverage: "He entered sports broadcasting in the mid-1950s, when the predominant style was unabashed adulation, [and] offered a brassy counterpoint that was first ridiculed, then copied until it became the dominant note of sports broadcasting."
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Pablo S. Torre Pablo S. Torre (born September 27, 1985) is an American sportswriter and columnist for ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine. Torre is a regular guest on various ESPN shows such as Around the Horn and The Sports Reporters. He also frequently serves as an alternate host for Around the Horn, Highly Questionable, and Pardon the Interruption. He has also appeared on Outside the Lines, The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz, and TrueHoop. Aside from ESPN-related productions, Torre is also a contributor to National Public Radio.
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Ernie Holmes Earnest Lee Holmes (July 11, 1948 – January 17, 2008), also nicknamed "Fats", was an American football defensive tackle who played for the Pittsburgh Steelers and the New England Patriots of the National Football League (NFL). He played seven seasons from 1972 to 1978 and was a two-time Super Bowl champion with the Steelers.
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Dan Cook Daniel John "Dan" Cook, Jr. (August 12, 1926 – July 3, 2008) was a sports writer for the "San Antonio Express-News", where he worked for 51 years. He is most notable for popularizing the phrase "the opera ain't over 'til the fat lady sings." Described as a "sports icon", Cook also was a sports anchor at San Antonio television station KENS from 1956 to 2000. For most of these years, the TV station was owned by the "San Antonio Express-News".
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P. J. O'Rourke Patrick Jake O'Rourke ( ; born November 14, 1947), known as P.J. O'Rourke, is an American political satirist and journalist. O'Rourke is the H. L. Mencken Research Fellow at the libertarian Cato Institute and is a regular correspondent for "The Atlantic Monthly", "The American Spectator", and "The Weekly Standard", and frequent panelist on National Public Radio's game show "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!". Since 2011 he has been a columnist at "The Daily Beast".
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Hannah Storm Hannah Storm (born Hannah Lynn Storen; June 13, 1962) is an American television sports journalist, serving as the anchor of ESPN's "SportsCenter" Face to Face. She was also host of the "NBA Countdown" pregame show on ABC as part of the network's NBA Sunday game coverage.
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Steve Raible Steven Carl Raible (born June 2, 1954) is a weeknight news anchor for KIRO 7 in Seattle, Washington and the lead play-by-play radio commentator for the Seattle Seahawks, a National Football League team. He is also a former player for the Seahawks.
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Brent Musburger Brent Woody Musburger ( ; born May 26, 1939) is an American sportscaster, lead broadcaster and managing editor at Vegas Stats and Information Network (VSiN). He retired in January 2017 from the ESPN and ABC television networks. Formerly with CBS Sports and one of the original members of their program "The NFL Today", Musburger has also covered the NBA, MLB, NCAA football and basketball, and NASCAR and served as a studio host for games, a play-by-play man, and halftime host. He has also performed postgame wrap-up segments and covered championship trophy presentations. He is a member of the Montana Broadcaster's Association Hall of Fame.
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Ellis Henican Ellis Henican (born October 9, 1958) is an American columnist at "Newsday" and AM New York as well as a political analyst on the Fox News Channel. He hosts a nationally syndicated weekend show on Talk Radio Network and is the voice of "Stormy" on the Cartoon Network series "Sealab 2021". He is the author of the "New York Times" Bestseller "The Party's Over: How the Extreme Right Hijacked the GOP and I Became a Democrat".
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Alan Schwarz Alan Schwarz (born July 3, 1968) is a Pulitzer Prize-nominated National Correspondent at "The New York Times" best known for writing more than 100 articles that exposed the seriousness of concussions among football players of all ages. His investigative and profile pieces are generally credited with revolutionizing the respect and protocol for head injuries in youth and professional sports. Schwarz's work was profiled in "The New Yorker" and several films, including "Head Games" and the 2013 “Frontline” PBS documentary "League of Denial". The "Columbia Journalism Review" featured him in its 2011 "Art of Great Reporting" issue and wrote of his concussion work, "He put the issue on the agenda of lawmakers, sports leagues, and the media at large — and helped create a new debate about risk and responsibility in sports." The series was described by one Hall of Fame sports writer, Murray Chass, as "the most remarkable feat in sports journalism history."
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John Steigerwald John Steigerwald (born October 3, 1948), is a Pittsburgh-based sports reporter, commentator, and former sports anchor and second oldest member of the Steigerwald media family that includes his older brother Bill and younger brothers Paul Steigerwald and rock guitarist Dan Steigerwald. John worked on the sports anchor team at WTAE-TV (ABC), along with other Pittsburgh notables such as Myron Cope and Bill Hillgrove. He later moved to KDKA-TV (CBS) in 1985 and was an anchor and primary Pittsburgh Steelers reporter for 30 years. KDKA chose not to renew his contract in 2007. Until 2015 he was a "Sports Talk" host on the radio website of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. He writes a weekly column for The Daily Caller and his web site is JustWatchtheGame.com. John's brother Bill Steigerwald is an ex-newspaperman and book author ("30 Days a Black Man" and "Dogging Steinbeck") who worked at the Los Angeles Times in the 1980s, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in the 1990s and the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review in the 2000s. Paul Steigerwald, a former KDKA-TV sports reporter, is the Pittsburgh Penguins television play-by-play announcer.
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Steve White (American football) Stephen Gregory White (born October 25, 1973) is a sports blogger and former professional American football player who played defensive end for seven seasons for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the New York Jets. He currently writes about football for the sports blog SB Nation.
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Ryan McGee Ryan McGee is a senior writer for "ESPN The Magazine" and formerly a television producer with ESPN, Fox Sports Net, and NASCAR Media Group. He covers a variety of American sports, but is best known for his motorsports work, particularly NASCAR, and college football. Before joining "ESPN The Magazine" he was a columnist for FoxSports.com. He was also editor-in-chief at NASCAR Media Group and wrote the script for the documentary "Dale""," that was narrated by Paul Newman.
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Skip Bayless Skip Bayless (born John Edward Bayless II December 4, 1951) is an American sports columnist, author, and television personality. He is well known for his work as a commentator on the ESPN2 show, "First Take", with Stephen A. Smith, a show which he left in April 2016. Bayless debuted his new show "" with Shannon Sharpe on Fox Sports 1 September 6, 2016.
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Lewis Grizzard Lewis McDonald Grizzard Jr. (October 20, 1946 – March 20, 1994) was an American writer and humorist, known for his Southern demeanor and commentary on the American South. Although he spent his early career as a newspaper sports writer and editor, becoming the sports editor of the "Atlanta Journal" at age 23, he is much better known for his humorous newspaper columns in the "Atlanta Journal-Constitution". He was also a popular stand-up comedian & lecturer.
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Wayne Shannon Gerald Wayne "Gerry" Schetzle, best known by the broadcast pseudonym Wayne Shannon, (1948-2011) was an American television news reporter, political pundit, and humorist who worked in Detroit, Philadelphia, and San Francisco during the late 1970s and 1980s.
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Tony Brown (journalist) William Anthony "Tony" Brown (born April 11, 1933) is an American journalist, academian, comedian and businessman. He is best known as the commentator of the long running syndicated television show, "Tony Brown's Journal".
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Jonathan Meath Jonathan Meath (born September 16, 1955) is an American TV producer based in Boston who is notable for children's television production. He was Senior Producer of the TV game show "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?" He produced "Zoom (1999)" and "The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss." He co-founded a production company called Andanzura. In addition, he is notable for having a dual career as a professional Santa Claus. He made numerous appearances in various media as Santa, including ABC's "Good Morning America" show, and at New York's Radio City Music Hall with The Rockettes. He appeared on the cover of "Boston Magazine" as "Father Christmas". He was described by "National Public Radio" and "Time Magazine" as a "top Santa", and appeared as Santa in a Delta Airline's in-flight safety video. He is featured as Santa in Coca-Cola’s worldwide 2016 holiday advertising campaign both in print and commercials titled “A Coke for Christmas."
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Curt Gowdy Curtis Edward Gowdy (July 31, 1919 – February 20, 2006) was an American sportscaster, well known as the longtime "voice" of the Boston Red Sox and for his coverage of many nationally televised sporting events, primarily for NBC Sports in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Frank Keating (journalist) Francis Vincent "Frank" Keating (4 October 1937 – 25 January 2013) was an English sports journalist and author, who was best known for his regular columns in "The Guardian" newspaper. Keating was described as "a giant of sports journalism" by journalist Phil Shaw in his obituary for "The Independent" newspaper.
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Mike Carlson Mike Carlson is a pundit of National Football League (NFL) coverage in the United Kingdom. He worked on Channel Five's coverage of the sport from 1998–2010 and Channel 4's coverage of the sport from 2010-2015. He was also the main analyst for BBC's coverage of the Super Bowl between 2008-2013 and 2016-2017. He also commentated on BBC's coverage of basketball at the 2012 Olympics and the 2016 Olympics. He is originally from Connecticut, US.