North American Soccer Reporters

The North American Soccer Reporters (NASR) is a unified group of journalists who cover soccer whether in print, online, television or radio. The organization was founded in November 2007

Goals

The NASR's goals are as follows: [http://www.soccerreporters.com/page6.html]
* To promote the work of soccer journalists in North America.
* To provide a unified voice among the journalists in regards to access, cooperation and information from organizations such as but not limited to The United States Soccer Federation, Major League Soccer, the United Soccer Leagues, the National Soccer Hall of Fame and the National Collegiate Athletics Association.
* To provide a network of resources for both journalists and editors.

Awards Voting

The NASR is responsible for voting on several awards including: [http://www.soccerreporters.com/page3.html]

*MLS Player of the Week [http://web.mlsnet.com/news/mls_news.jsp?ymd=20080707&content_id=171085&vkey=pr_mls&fext=.jsp]
*MLS Player of the Month [http://web.mlsnet.com/news/mls_news.jsp?ymd=20080701&content_id=169738&vkey=pr_mls&fext=.jsp]

Membership

Will be open to soccer reporters whether in print, television, radio or internet regardless of race, religion, gender, sexual persuasion or language. [http://www.soccerreporters.com/page13.html]

List of current members

Names of members are followed by the name of the organization for whom they write. [http://www.soccerreporters.com/page2.html Complete list of members]

*Roberto Abramowitz, Futbol Mundial/ESPN
*Elliott Almond, San Jose Mercury News
*Eric Anderson, Wisconsin State Journal/Madison Soccer Central
*Diego Aparicio, Al Dia/Dallas Morning News
*Luis Arroyave, Chicago Tribune
*Diego Balado, Univision
*Jack Bell, The New York Times
*Tony Biscaia, RevsNet.com/American Soccer News
*Christopher Bond, freelance Austin/www.elmundosports.com
*Gayle Bryan, Fair Game Magazine
*Robert Burns, FoxSoccer.com
*Mark Bushman,
*Dylan Butler, TimesLedger newspapers/Bigapplesoccer.com
*Damian Calhoun, Orange County Register
*Morgan Campbell, Toronto Star
*Jaime Cardenas, Los Angeles Times
*Buzz Carrick,3rddegree.net
*Marc Connolly, Goal.com
*Ken Costlow, SportsTicker (Dallas)
*Joseph D’Hippolito, freelance (Fullerton, Calif.)
*Glenn Davis, Houston Chronicle/HDNet/ESPN
*Noah Davis, Goal.com
*Steve Davis, ESPN.com
*Frank Dell’Apa,Boston Globe
*Sean Donahue, Revolution Recap/Sports Review/Soccer New England
*Beau Dure, USA Today
*Kristian R. Dyer, ESPN/Metro
*James Edward, Deseret Morning News
*Gina Falcone-Rupp, McClatchy Interactive
*Bernardo Fallas, Houston Chronicle
*Jonah Freedman, Sports Illustrated/SI.com
*Scott French, MLS Magazine
*Stephen Fontenot, San Antonio Express-News
*Dan Gaichas, windycitysoccer.net
*Ives Galarcep, ESPNsoccernet/soccerbyives
*Frank Giase, Newark Star-Ledger
*Nick Green, LA Daily News/Carson Daily Breeze
*Todd Grisham, Fox Soccer Channel
*Steve Goff, Washington Post
*Josh Hakala, USOpenCup.com
*John Haydon, The Washington Times
*Jane Allison Havsy, Daily Record (Parsippany, N.J.)/Gannett New Jersey
*David Hinojosa, Dallas Morning News
*Allen Hopkins, ESPN
*Steve Hunt, MLSnet.com/freelance (Dallas, Texas)
*Andrew Hush, ESPN Soccernet/MLSnet.com
*Scott Joiner, Hobbs News-Sun (N.M.)
*Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald
*Greg Lalas, Goal.com
*Michael C. Lewis, Salt Lake Tribune
*Michael Lewis, New York Daily News/Big Apple Soccer
*David Lifton, ussoccerplayers.com
*Clemente Lisi, freelance (New York)
*Dan Loney, Goal-Nevada
*Tobias Xavier Lopez, Fort Worth Star-Telegram
*Pat Martin, SportsNetwork.com
*Kyle McCarthy, Goal.com
*Don McGregor, windycitysoccer.net
*Doug McIntyre, ESPN The Magazine
*Dean McNulty, Toronto Sun
*Larry Millson, Globe and Mail (Canada)
*Shawn Mitchell, Columbus Dispatch
*Brian O’Connell, newenglandsoccernews.com
*Kelly O’Donnell, GolTV
*Martin Rogers, Yahoo Sports
*Phil Schoen, GolTV
*Greg Seltzer, Soccer365/No Short Corners
*Brad Sham, ESPN/FC Dallas Broadcast
*Adam Spangler, This is American Soccer
*Rob Stone, ESPN
*Craig Stouffer, Washington Examiner
*Andy Swift, KNIT/KODF Radio (Dallas)
*George Tanner, Rocky Mountain News
*Tom Timmerman, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
*Kenn Tomasch, Freelance/broadcast (Arizona)
*Jamie Trecker, Fox Sports
*Jerry Trecker, Hall of Fame media inductee
*Rafael Uncein, GolTV
*Grant Wahl, Sports Illustrated
*Patrick Walsh, Goal.com
*Ian Whittell, freelance (Manchester, England)
*Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune
*Len Ziehm, Chicago Sun-Times
*Matt Zimmerman, freelance (Kansas City)

Links

* [http://www.soccerreporters.com/ Official site]
* [http://www.facebook.com/pages/North-American-Soccer-Reporters/8851498366 NASR Facebook]
* [http://www.myspace.com/nasoccerreporters NASR MySpace]