Bob Halloran

Bob Halloran is the weekend TV sports and news anchor for WCVB Channel 5, an ABC affiliate located in the Boston, Massachusetts media market. Halloran is also the co-host of Salk & Halloran on 890 ESPN weekdays from 12-2.

Bob is the author of "Irish Thunder: The Hard Life and Times of Micky Ward", a boxing biography on "Irish " Micky Ward, published in 2007 by Lyons Press. Paramount Pictures has retained Bob Halloran as a technical consultant for the producers of the upcoming film "The Fighter" starring Mark Wahlberg as Micky Ward and Brad Pitt as Micky's brother Dickie Eklund. [Standring, Suzette Martinez. [http://www.wickedlocal.com/milton/news/x1637131333 "Milton author pens book about New England boxing fan favorite Micky Ward"] , "The Patriot Ledger", February 23, 2008. Accessed February 23, 2008.]

In 2004, Halloran wrote "Destiny Derailed", a book on the collapse of the Boston Red Sox 2003 playoff run.

Halloran is an adjunct faculty member teaching news journalism courses in the communications department at Curry College in Milton, Massachusetts. He has also been a regular contributor as a sports columnist for the Boston Metro newspaper.

Halloran has worked as an anchor for ESPNews, writer for ESPN.com and a sports reporter for WFXT Fox 25 News in Boston. A native of New Jersey, he is a graduate of Washington and Lee University.

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