Frank Isola (sportswriter)
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Frank Isola is an American sportswriter, who once covered the New York Knicks and the National Basketball Association for the New York Daily News from 1996 until 2018.[1][2] He now works for ESPN and appears on the network’s shows Around the Horn[3] and Pardon the Interruption[citation needed] He is one of the hosts of "The Starting Lineup" on SiriusXM NBA Radio. He appears on broadcasts of Brooklyn Nets basketball games as a studio analyst on the YES Network[4] He also worked briefly for The Athletic as a senior writer before taking a full-time position at ESPN.[5] Isola received an APSE sports writing award in 1998 and was voted New York Sportswriter of the Year in 2015. He also received a New York Emmy Award in 2009-10 for his work on and SportsNet New York (SNY).[6]
Isola is a graduate of the University of Maryland, College Park, where he was a walk-on member of the men's soccer team, as well as a brother of the Eta chapter of Phi Sigma Kappa.[7] He is married to his wife Tonja and has two children. They reside is Upper Montclair, N.J. Tonja was inducted into the Manhattan College Hall of Fame for track & field. A son Liam, who attends Northwestern, and a daughter, Gabrielle who played for the Villanova Wildcats Women’s Soccer Team. She now is the Grad Assistant for the Ohio University Women’s Soccer Team [8]
References[]
- ^ http://deadspin.com/how-frank-isola-became-the-most-hated-man-at-madison-sq-478620919
- ^ https://thebiglead.com/2018/07/23/new-york-daily-news-layoffs-frank-isola/amp/
- ^ https://www.facebook.com/ESPN/posts/1107780689268686
- ^ https://www.netsdaily.com/2019/10/11/20909324/marchand-jim-spanarkel-heads-to-yes-network-studio-for-new-pre-game-gig
- ^ https://theathletic.com/559603/
- ^ "Frank Isola - Sportswriter". Amherst College.
- ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkJshkxzgsg
- ^ "VILLANOVA.COM Gabrielle Isola Bio :: Villanova University Official Athletic Site Villanova University Official Athletic Site :: Women's Soccer". Villanova. Retrieved 28 April 2018.
External links[]
- Frank Isola at IMDb
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