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John Leonard Powers (born November 6, 1948) is a journalist and author who wrote for ''The Boston Globe'' for more than four decades in the Sports, Metro, Sunday |
John Leonard Powers (born November 6, 1948) is a journalist and author who wrote for ''The Boston Globe'' for more than four decades in the Sports, Metro, Sunday Magazine, and Living sections and later became a freelance correspondent for the newspaper. Many sportswriters consider him the dean of Olympic journalists; he has covered every Olympic Games (summer and winter) since 1976 [1], excepting the 1980 Moscow Games, when the U.S. boycott led the Russians to refuse to issue a visa. He may well have reported from more Olympics than any American sportswriter. Powers was part of a highly regarded sportswriting team at the ''Globe.'' “From the mid-1970s to the early '80s,” ''Sports Illustrated'' wrote in 2009, “the ''Globe'' contained arguably the greatest collection of reporting talent ever assembled in a sports section…” [2] Powers has also written or co-authored 11 books. |
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John Leonard Powers (born November 6, 1948) is a journalist and author who wrote for The Boston Globe for more than four decades in the Sports, Metro, Sunday Magazine, and Living sections and later became a freelance correspondent for the newspaper. Many sportswriters consider him the dean of Olympic journalists; he has covered every Olympic Games (summer and winter) since 1976 [1], excepting the 1980 Moscow Games, when the U.S. boycott led the Russians to refuse to issue a visa. He may well have reported from more Olympics than any American sportswriter. Powers was part of a highly regarded sportswriting team at the Globe. “From the mid-1970s to the early '80s,” Sports Illustrated wrote in 2009, “the Globe contained arguably the greatest collection of reporting talent ever assembled in a sports section…” [2] Powers has also written or co-authored 11 books.
Biography
Early life and education
Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the first child of a Boston policeman, Powers graduated in 1966 from Boston Latin School. He earned an A.B. cum laude from Harvard in 1970 and, while there, wrote for the sports section of The Harvard Crimson student newspaper. From 1970 to 1972, Powers served as a U.S. Navy line officer aboard an aircraft carrier, the USS Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Career
Besides covering the Olympics, Powers written about nearly all major sports, and has expertise in specialized disciplines such as rowing. He has reported from five men's and two women's soccer World Cups, and filed stories from five continents. Powers has led The Boston Globe’s coverage of the Boston Marathon and covered that event for nearly five decades.
Personal life
Powers married Elaine LePage in 1974. They have two sons, Jonathan and Evan, and three grandchildren. The family lived for many years in Wellesley, Massachusetts, until moving to Brewster, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod.
Honors and awards
Powers shared the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for a special issue of The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine titled “War and Peace in the Nuclear Age.” [3][4]
In 2011,Powers received the Boston Athletic Association's Will Cloney Award, presented to an individual who has promoted the sport of running, especially locally.[5]
Powers was a Poynter Fellow at Yale University.
Bibliography
The Short Season: A Boston Celtics Diary, 1977-78. HarperCollins, 1979. 978-0060134518
Yankees: An Illustrated History (with George Sullivan). Prentice Hall, 1982. ISBN 978-0139718120
One Goal: A Chronicle of the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team (with Arthur C. Kaminsky). HarperCollins, 1984. ISBN 978-0060152000
Mary Lou: Creating an Olympic Champion (with Mary Lou Retton). McGraw-Hill, 1985. ISBN 978-0440155089 [6]
Seasons to Remember: The Way It Was in American Sports, 1945-60 (with Curt Gowdy). HarperCollins, 1993. ISBN 978-0060182281
The Boston Handbook (with illustrator Peter Wallace). On Cape Publications, 1999. ISBN 978-0975850275
The Boston Dictionary (with illustrator Peter Wallace). On Cape Publications, 2004. ISBN 978-0971954700
Fenway Park: A Salute to the Coolest, Cruelest, Longest-Running Major League Baseball Stadium in America (with Ron Driscoll). Running Press Adult, 2012. ISBN 978-0762442041
The Third H Book of Harvard Athletics (with John Veneziano). Harvard Varsity Club, 2014.
The Head of the Charles Regatta: First 50 Head of the Charles Regatta, 2015. ISBN 978-0692458570 [7]
Fridays with Bill: Inside the Football Mind of Bill Belichick Thorndike Books, 2018. ISBN 978-1629376295
References
1. “The Olympics, via Powers,” Harvard Magazine. July 30, 2012.
2. Scott Tinley, “Glory days of The Boston Globe: the greatest sports staff ever,” Sports Illustrated, June 3, 2009.
3. “Sketches of Pulitzer Prize Winners; Public Service,” The New York Times, April 19, 1983.
4. http://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/1983
5. Duncan Larkin, “Jock Semple and Will Cloney Award Winners Named,” Competitor Running, December 9, 2011.
6. Grace Lichtenstein, “Mary Lou Retton: A Perfect Ten,” Washington Post, October 6, 1985.
7. Oli Rosenbladt, “Sportswriter John Powers of the Boston Globe,” Row 2k, November 4, 2015.
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