1. An alumnus of Murphy High in Mobile and Stanford University, Maisel began his career at The Atlanta Constitution in 1981, where he covered Clemson's unlikely run to the national championship.
14 Facts About Ivan Maisel
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Ivan Maisel began covering national college football in 1987 for the Dallas Morning News, then moved to Newsday in 1994.
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Ivan Maisel rejoined Sports Illustrated in 1997 as a senior writer.
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Ivan Maisel served as the Editor-at-Large of ESPN College Football 150, the multi-platform project commemorating the 2019 sesquicentennial of the sport.
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Ivan Maisel has been honored nine times for Best Story by the Football Writers Association of America, most recently for a 2022 remembrance of the late football coach Mike Leach.
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Ivan Maisel has been honored twice by the Associated Press Sports Editors, who in 2019 named him one of the 10 best sports columnists in the nation.
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Ivan Maisel won the Edwin Pope Vanguard Media Award from the Orange Bowl in 2019.
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Ivan Maisel announced on Twitter in November 2020 that ESPN had informed him it would not renew his contract.
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Ivan Maisel worked for On3 until June 2023, when he announced his departure.
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Ivan Maisel has one brother, Elliot Maisel, and one sister, Kathy Bronstein.
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Ivan Maisel has often joked about his odd background, being a Jewish Alabamian.
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On Friday, April 18,2015 a body matching Max Ivan Maisel's description was found in Lake Ontario.
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In September 2018, Ivan Maisel authored a story about the death of Tyler Hilinski, a Washington State quarterback who died by suicide, and Ivan Maisel's bond with the Hilinski family.
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In October 2021, Ivan Maisel published a memoir about his relationship with Max, titled I Keep Trying to Catch His Eye.