Michael Lupica is an author and former American newspaper columnist, best known for his provocative commentary on sports in the New York Daily News and his appearances on ESPN.
17 Facts About Mike Lupica
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Mike Lupica was born in Oneida, New York, where he spent his pre-adolescent years, having attended St Patrick's Elementary School through the sixth grade.
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Mike Lupica first came to prominence as a sportswriter in Pottstown, Pennsylvania.
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Mike Lupica wrote "The Sporting Life" column at Esquire magazine for ten years beginning in the late 1980s, and currently writes a regular column for Travel + Leisure Golf.
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Mike Lupica has written for Golf Digest, Parade, ESPN The Magazine, and Men's Journal, and has received numerous awards including, in 2003, the Jim Murray Award from the National Football Foundation.
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Mike Lupica wrote several sports columns during the week for the Daily News, as well as a signature Sunday column, "Shooting from the Lip," which featured a traditional column followed by a series of short, acerbic observations from the week in sports.
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Later in his career he began writing a regular political column entitled "Mondays with Mike Lupica," which is strongly liberal in orientation.
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Mike Lupica has likewise been highly critical of the Atlantic Yards project and the attendant construction of the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
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Mike Lupica co-wrote autobiographies with Reggie Jackson and Bill Parcells and collaborated with screenwriter William Goldman on Wait Till Next Year and Mad as Hell: How Sports Got Away From the Fans and How We Get It Back.
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Mike Lupica has been listed a vocal critic of the steroid era.
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Mike Lupica is a novelist; his work includes mysteries involving fictional NYC television reporter Peter Finley.
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Mike Lupica has written a novel for younger audiences called Travel Team.
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Since 1988 Mike Lupica has been one of the rotating pundits on The Sports Reporters on ESPN.
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Mike Lupica briefly hosted an unsuccessful television chat program, The Mike Lupica Show, on ESPN2, as well as a short-lived radio show on WFAN in New York City in the mid-1990s.
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Mike Lupica has been a recurring guest on the CBS Morning News, Good Morning America, and The MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour.
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Mike Lupica has made frequent radio appearances on Imus in the Morning since the early 1980s.
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Mike Lupica hosted a daily radio show on WEPN-FM from May 9,2011, until August 21,2015.