Lupica named to media Hall of Fame
LONGTIME New York Daily News columnist Mike Lupica has been named to the National Sports Media Association Hall of Fame.
Lupica was announced as a Hall of Famer alongside Linda Cohn, the late Frank Gifford and Sam Lacy in a video posted by the organization on Wednesday.
Best known for his famous “Shooting from the Lip” column, Lupica has covered New York sports in his unique and biting style for over 40 years.
The 64-year-old columnist previously won the NSMA’s New York Sportswriter of the Year award in 2010.
“It’s a wonderful honor,” Lupica said, reflecting on his four decades of working for The News. “It’s another occasion for me to realize just how lucky I’ve been since Mike O’Neil hired me. I started on the same day as Pete Hamill, not only one of my best friends, but one of my heroes.”
Daily News basketball columnist Frank Isola, who won the state award in 2014, was nominated again in 2016.
Lupica and his fellow Hall of Famers will be feted in June at the National Sports Media Association annual awards dinner in North Carolina.
Lupica’s uncompromising opinion pieces, frank observations and interviews have earned him a reputation as one of the most prolific and inimitable voices in the sportswriting world.
“Mike Lupica has been, and remains, the most incisive, inspirational, entertaining and humorous sportswriter of the modern era,” Daily News Editor in Chief Arthur Brown said. “He truly belongs in the hall of fame.”
Lupica’s brand of blunt assessment and no-nonsense reporting has graced the pages of The News since 1977, when he became the youngest columnist ever at a New York paper.