Evan Weiner

Friday, 05 November 2010 12:33

From locker rooms to boardrooms to hearing rooms, Evan Weiner has covered the gritty, pragmatic, dollar driven sports industry since 1971 by asking consistently probing, difficult and controversial questions. He is among a very small number of people who cover the politics and business of sports and how that relationship affects not only sports fans but non-sports fans as well. Along the way he has won two Associated Press awards for News Coverage, as well as The United States Sports Academy Distinguished Service Award for Journalism in 2003.

Evan Weiner was a contributing columnist for New York Newsday (2001-05); AM-New York, the New York Press, the Bergen (New Jersey) Record, the Philadelphia Metro, Washington Examiner, Orlando Sentinel, Rhode Island's Sports Journal, and for The Chicago Tribune's Spanish Hoy! newspapers in NY, Chicago and LA between 2002.

Mr. Weiner has also appeared on programs on the former WBIS, Channel 31 (New York, NY), RNN (New York), the History Channel with Al Michaels and Frank Deford, as well as ABCNews Now's Politics Live TV show with Sam Donaldson, and the BBC Radio Documentary Sports and Sponsorship.

Evan also lectures at colleges and universities about the business and politics of sports, including the globalization of North American sports and how technology is changing sports. His book, The Business and Politics of Sports, has been critically acclaimed by academic journals and is used as part of a number of sports business management courses at schools throughout the United States.