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Michael Farber

Michael Farber

American author and sports journalist

Michael Farber (born September 1951)[1] is an American author and sports journalist, and was a writer with Sports Illustrated from 1994 to 2014.[2] He covered mostly ice hockey and Olympic sports. Before 1994, Farber spent 15 years as a sports columnist for the Montreal Gazette, and previously wrote for the Bergen Record, and the Sun Bulletin.[3] Farber is a commentator for CJAD 800 AM in Montreal, and on The Sports Network's The Reporters.[3]

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Farber grew up in Bayonne, New Jersey.[4] He graduated from Rutgers University in 1973, and is a Phi Beta Kappa Society member.[3] He relocated to Montreal in 1979.[2] He won the Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award in 2003, and is a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame selection committee.[5]

References

  1. [1]
    "Michael Farber". September 8, 2015.
  2. [2]
    "Vault: Michael Farber". SI.com. Sports Illustrated. Retrieved December 25, 2017.
  3. [3]
    "Michael Farber". SI.com. Sports Illustrated. Retrieved December 25, 2017.
  4. [4]
    Farber, Michael. "Garden State: Returning to his hometown, Bayonne, the author marvels at the incongruity of an ultra exclusive golf club sharing a zip code with a city that's best known as a punch line", Sports Illustrated, November 12, 2007. Accessed December 26, 2017. "Bayonne is my hometown, in that I lived there for the formative years between fifth and 10th grade and the summers afterward."
  5. [5]
    "Selection Committee". Legends of Hockey. Hockey Hall of Fame. Retrieved December 25, 2017.


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