ABOUT MIKE LUPICA
Mike Lupica is one of the most prominent columnists in America. His longevity at the top of his field is based on his experience and insider’s knowledge, coupled with a provocative presentation that takes an uncompromising look at the tumultuous worlds of professional sports, and politics.
Today, Lupica hails as a Sports and News columnist for the New York Daily News, which includes his popular “Shooting from the Lip” column, which appears every Sunday, and for SportsonEarth.com.
He currently hosts Lupica on 98.7 FM, ESPN, NY from 1p-3p each weekday afternoon, and does a national version of the show on Sunday mornings.
For more than 35 years, Lupica has added magazines, novels, sports biographies, other non-fiction books on sports, as well as television to his professional resume. For the past 20 years, he has been a regular on ESPN’s The Sports Reporters.
Lupica has been a regular with his friend Don Imus on Imus in the Morning since the 1980s, and is a frequent contributor to The Today Show.
Mr. Lupica, a graduate of Boston College, began his newspaper career covering the New York Knicks for the New York Post. He became the youngest columnist ever at a New York paper with the New York Daily News.
Mike Lupica has received numerous honors, including the 2003 Jim Murray Award from the National Football Foundation, and was voted New York Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association in 2010. Travel Team, his first novel for Young Adult readers, was No. 1 on the New York Times Best Seller List for Children’s Chapter Books.
In 2013, Mr. Lupica was the winner of the 19th Damon Runyon Award, presented by the Denver Press Club. The previous winners of the award include Tom Brokaw, the late Tim Russert, the late David Halberstam, Bob Costas, Mike Royko, Carl Hiaasen, Pete Hamill, and Jimmy Breslin.
Mr. Lupica and his wife, Taylor, are the parents of four children: Christopher, Alex, Zach and Hannah. They live in New Canaan, Ct., and Wellington, Fla.
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