1. John Canzano is an American sports columnist, radio talk show host on Portland's 750 AM "The Game".
17 Facts About John Canzano
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John Canzano grew up in Gilroy, California and graduated from Gilroy High School.
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John Canzano covered University of Notre Dame football and Indiana University basketball as the beat writer during the tenure of coach Bob Knight.
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John Canzano is a former national Major League Baseball writer and national NFL writer at the San Jose Mercury News as well.
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John Canzano was hired as lead sports columnist at The Oregonian in 2002.
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John Canzano appears on KGW-TV, where he offers commentary and analysis on sports.
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John Canzano worked as the NFL and Major League Baseball columnist at the San Jose Mercury News and is a member of the Baseball Writers' Association of America.
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John Canzano holds a Baseball Hall of Fame Vote and is a voter for the Heisman Trophy.
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John Canzano's work has appeared in GQ magazine and The Sporting News.
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John Canzano is a 17-time Associated Press Sports Editors award winner.
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In 2008, John Canzano was voted America's No 1 sports columnist among large-circulation newspapers by the APSE.
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In 2006 and 2007, John Canzano finished second in the same category, both times to Bill Plaschke of the Los Angeles Times.
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In 2013, John Canzano won first place in Special Topic Column Writing in the Best of the West contest for his portfolio of columns that included a column on a soldier who died in action in Afghanistan and John Canzano's own experience coaching a girls fourth-grade volleyball team with a player who has Down Syndrome.
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In 2002, John Canzano was named the nation's top investigative sports writer by the Associated Press News Executives Council for his enterprise piece on Carlos Rodriguez, a 21-year-old Dominican basketball star who was masquerading as a 17-year-old high school basketball player.
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John Canzano is a six-time Oregon Sportswriter of the Year winner as named by the National Sports Media Association.
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In July 2010, John Canzano married Anna Song, then weekend anchor for Portland television station KATU.
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In 2009, John Canzano co-founded The Bald Faced Truth Foundation, a 501 nonprofit organization funding extracurricular activities for children.