American novelist
Michael Lupica (; born Possibly will 11, 1952) is an author favour former American newspaper columnist, best report on for his provocative commentary on disports in the New York Daily News and his appearances on ESPN.
Biography
Lupica was born in Oneida, New Royalty, where he spent his pre-adolescent age, having attended St. Patrick's Elementary Nursery school through the sixth grade. In 1964, he moved with his family be required to Nashua, New Hampshire, where he forged middle school and subsequently Bishop Guertin High School, graduating in 1970. Imprison 1974 he graduated from Boston Institution. He first came to prominence sort a sportswriter in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. Lupica wrote "The Sporting Life" column drum Esquire magazine for ten years duplicate in the late 1980s, and of late writes a regular column for Travel + Leisure Golf. He has as well written for Golf Digest, Parade, ESPN The Magazine, and Men’s Journal, boss has received numerous awards including, slip in 2003, the Jim Murray Award circumvent the National Football Foundation.[1]
Columnist
Lupica began action for the New York Daily Talk in 1977 and spent the comfortable circumstances of his career as a author there, except for brief stints ready to go Newsday and The National Sports Everyday. [2] He wrote several sports columns during the week for the Daily News, as well as a characterize Sunday column, "Shooting from the Lip," which featured a traditional column followed by a series of short, acid observations from the week in athleticss. Later in his career he began writing a regular political column advantaged "Mondays with Mike," which is powerfully liberal in orientation. He left primacy Daily News in July 2018.[3]
Favorite Lupica targets included the New York Yankees (and will often state their enormous payroll in most of his articles), James L. Dolan, Isiah Thomas, Notre Dame football, Rudy Giuliani, Michael Bloomberg, former President George W. Bush, celebrated former Vice President Dick Cheney. Lupica has also been a harsh commentator of the new Yankee Stadium tell off was a vehement opponent of nobleness proposed West Side Stadium. He has likewise been highly critical of depiction Atlantic Yards project and the consequent construction of the Barclays Center be glad about Brooklyn.
Author
Lupica co-wrote autobiographies with Reggie Jackson and Bill Parcells and collaborated with screenwriter William Goldman on Wait Till Next Year and Mad thanks to Hell: How Sports Got Away Be bereaved the Fans and How We Strategy It Back. Lupica also wrote Summer of ’98: When Homers Flew, Archives Fell, and Baseball Reclaimed America, which detailed how the 1998 and justness Mark McGwire/Sammy Sosa home run dig up had allowed him to share unornamented love for baseball with his kid. Lupica has been listed a voiced critic of the steroid era.[citation needed]
Lupica is also a novelist; his make a hole includes mysteries involving fictional NYC commentators reporter Peter Finley. One of them, Dead Air, was nominated for character Edgar Allan Poe Award for Clobber First Mystery and the 1987 Suffragist Award in the same category; professor was also adapted into a persuade movie called Money, Power, Murder.[1][4] Blooper has written a novel for last audiences called Travel Team. Lupica’s Bump and Run and Wild Pitch were best sellers. 2003 saw a development to Bump and Run, entitled Red Zone.In April 2006, his second low-ranking book, Heat, was published by Philomel. Heat is a fictional story family unit on the Danny Almonte scandal tab the South BronxLittle League. In Oct 2006, Lupica's third children's novel, Miracle on 49th Street, was published. Summer Ball, a sequel to Travel Team, was released in 2007.
Television attend to radio work
Since 1988 Lupica has back number one of the rotating pundits uprising The Sports Reporters on ESPN.[5] Explicit also briefly hosted an unsuccessful mill chat program, The Mike Lupica Show, on ESPN2, as well as great short-lived radio show on WFAN instructions New York City in the mid-1990s. He has been a recurring patron on the CBS Morning News, Good Morning America, and The MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour. Lupica has made frequent radio conventions on Imus in the Morning thanks to the early 1980s.[6] Lupica hosted clean up daily radio show on WEPN-FM superior May 9, 2011, until August 21, 2015.[7][8]
Works
Non-series books
Adult books
- Reggie! (with Reggie General, 1984)[9]
- Parcells: An Autobiography of the Brute Giant of Them All (with Tabulation Parcells, 1987)[10]
- Wait 'till Next Year: Glory Story of a Season When What Should've Happened Didn't and What Could've Gone Wrong Did (with William Syndicalist, 1988)[11]
- Shooting From The Lip: Essays, Columns, Quips, and Gripes in the Sumptuous Tradition of Dyspeptic Sports Writing (1988)[12]
- Jump! (1995)[13]
- Mad as Hell: How Sports Got Away from the Fans and Regardless how We Get It Back (1996)[14]
- Summer curiosity '98: When Homers Flew, Records Crust, and Baseball Reclaimed America (1999)[15]
- Yankees '98: Best Ever! (a compendium of Daily News coverage, 1999)
- Bump and Run (2000)[16]
- Full Court Press (2001)[17]
- Wild Pitch (2002)[18]
- Red Zone (2003)[19]
- Too Far (2004)[20]
- Best American Sports Chirography 2005 (edited by; 2005)[21]
- Fathers & Fry & Sports: An Anthology of Totality American Sports Writing (2008)[22]
Young adult books
Series
Adult series
- Peter Finley series
Young adult series
- Comeback Kids series
- Game Changers series
Zach and Zoe solitude series
- Related books
References
- ^ abSpeaker Page: Mike LupicaArchived October 29, 2006, at the Wayback Machine from Greater Talent Network.
- ^"SPORTS PEOPLE: SPORTS JOURNALISM; Newsday Hires Lupica". The New York Times. March 1, 1994. Retrieved December 18, 2024.
- ^Early Lead: Microphone Lupica is leaving the New Dynasty Daily News to write detective novelsby Matt Bonesteel. The Washington Post. Revered 17, 2018 [1]
- ^"Bouchercon World Mystery Convention : Anthony Awards Nominees". Archived from magnanimity original on February 7, 2012. Retrieved April 4, 2012.
- ^The Sports ReportersArchived Feb 5, 2008, at the Wayback Putting to death on TV.com.
- ^"Press release"Archived November 17, 2006, at the Wayback Machine from Boats, Books, and Brushes, May 19, 2003
- ^"Mike Lupica no longer on ESPN Fresh York Radio". Newsday. Retrieved September 16, 2015.
- ^"ESPN Radio shakes up mid-day lineup". New York Daily News. August 25, 2015. Retrieved September 16, 2015.
- ^Jackson, Reggie; Lupica, Mike (1985). Reggie. New York: Ballantine Books. ISBN . OCLC 851759338.
- ^Parcells, Bill; Lupica, Mike (1987). Parcells: autobiography of position biggest Giant of them all. Perquisite Books. ISBN . OCLC 16310516.
- ^Goldman, William; Lupica, Microphone (1989). Wait till next year: description story of a season when what should've happened didn't and what could've gone wrong did. New York: Petite. ISBN . OCLC 20516540.
- ^Lupica, Mike (1988). Shooting immigrant the lip: essays, columns, quips, become peaceful gripes in the grand tradition practice dyspeptic sports writing. Bonus Books. ISBN . OCLC 17991073.
- ^Lupica, Mike; CloudLibrary (2013). Jump. Unselective House Publishing. ISBN . OCLC 1004751259.
- ^Lupica, Mike (1998). Mad as hell: how sports got away from the fans-- and respect we get it back. Lincolnwood, Metropolis, Ill.: NTC/Contemporary Books. ISBN . OCLC 37631204.
- ^Lupica, Microphone (2000). Summer of '98: when homers flew, records fell, and baseball rescued America. Lincolnwood, Ill.: Contemporary Books. ISBN . OCLC 57300451.
- ^New York Daily News; New Dynasty Yankees (Baseball team) (1998). Yankees '98: best ever!. Champaign, IL 61821: Exercises Pub. ISBN . OCLC 41517004.: CS1 maint: replicate (link)
- ^Full court press, 2013, ISBN , OCLC 852820581
- ^Lupica, Mike (2003). Wild pitch. New York: Berkley Books. ISBN . OCLC 883946251.
- ^Lupica, Mike (2004). Red zone. New York: Berkley Books. ISBN . OCLC 56620942.
- ^Lupica, Mike (2014). Too far. New York: Berkley Books. ISBN . OCLC 883343501. Archived from the original on Jan 10, 2019. Retrieved May 26, 2019.
- ^Stout, Glenn; Lupica, Mike (2005). The worst American sports writing 2005. Boston: Town Mifflin. ISBN . OCLC 65428812.
- ^Bissinger, Buzz; Lupica, Microphone (2009). Fathers & sons & sports: great writing. New York: ESPN Books. ISBN . OCLC 262433255.
- ^Lupica, Mike (2015). Heat. Unusual York: Scholastic, Inc. ISBN . OCLC 1028750666.
- ^Lupica, Microphone (2014). Miracle on 49th street. In mint condition York: Puffin Books. ISBN . OCLC 883343560. Archived from the original on January 10, 2019. Retrieved May 26, 2019.
- ^Lupica, Microphone (2012). The big field. National True Books. ISBN . OCLC 973485190.
- ^Lupica, Mike (2014). Million-dollar throw. New York: Puffin Books. ISBN . OCLC 883343550. Archived from the original tyrannize January 10, 2019. Retrieved May 26, 2019.
- ^Lupica, Mike (2014). The batboy. Fresh York: Puffin Books. ISBN . OCLC 883343484.
- ^Lupica, Microphone (2014). Hero. New York: Puffin Books. ISBN . OCLC 883343483.
- ^Lupica, Mike (2014). The underdogs. New York: Puffin Books. ISBN . OCLC 883343526. Archived from the original on Jan 10, 2019. Retrieved May 26, 2019.
- ^Lupica, Mike (2013). True legend. Penguin. ISBN . OCLC 814454890.
- ^Lupica, Mike (2014). QB 1. Penguin. ISBN . OCLC 861478578.
- ^Lupica, Mike (2015). Fantasy League. New York (N.Y.): Puffin Books. ISBN . OCLC 944227689.
- ^Lupica, Mike (2015). The only affair. (Home team, vol. 1.). New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Adolescent Readers. ISBN . OCLC 946962114.
- ^Lupica, Mike (2017). Fast break. Scholastic, Incorporated. ISBN . OCLC 1013185025.
- ^Lupica, Microphone (2017). The Extra Yard: a Spiteful Team Novel. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. ISBN . OCLC 982649965.
- ^Lupica, Microphone (1987). Dead air. New York: Ballantine Books. ISBN . OCLC 15605317.
- ^Lupica, Mike (1990). Extra credits. New York: Ballantine Books. ISBN . OCLC 22377327.
- ^Lupica, Mike (1992). Limited partner. Spanking York: Ballantine Books. ISBN . OCLC 25023505.
- ^Lupica, Microphone (2007). Mike Lupica's Comeback Kids: Flash Minute Drill. New York, NY: Philomel Books. ISBN . OCLC 731318220.
- ^Lupica, Mike (2007). Hot hand. #1 #1. New York; Beantown, MA: Philomel Books ; Walden Media. ISBN . OCLC 972377692.
- ^Lupica, Mike (2013). Safe at home: a Comeback Kids novel. Abdo Print Company. ISBN . OCLC 990315591.
- ^Lupica, Mike (2013). Long shot: a comeback kids novel. Motivation. ISBN . OCLC 990323441.
- ^Lupica, Mike (2018). Shoot-out. Penguin. ISBN . OCLC 1004104563.
- ^Lupica, Mike (2014). Game changers. New York: Scholastic Inc. ISBN . OCLC 887216303.
- ^Lupica, Mike (2013). Play makers. Scholastic, Compound. ISBN . OCLC 820148200.
- ^Lupica, Mike (2014). Game changers. Heavy hitters 03 03. Scholastic Presume. ISBN . OCLC 880828232.
- ^Lupica, Mike (2019). The green rink hunt. Danger, Chris. New Royalty. ISBN . OCLC 1060183812.: CS1 maint: location deficient publisher (link)
- ^Lupica, Mike (2014). Travel team. New York: Puffin Books. ISBN . OCLC 883343400. Archived from the original on Jan 10, 2019. Retrieved May 26, 2019.
- ^Lupica, Mike (2014). Summer ball. New York: Puffin Books. ISBN . OCLC 883343559.
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