Joseph Santoliquito

Joseph A. Santoliquito is an award-winning sports writer based in the Philadelphia area. He has written major feature stories for SI.com, ESPN.com, NFL.com, MLB.com, "The Philadelphia Inquirer" and he currently works for the "Philadelphia Daily News" and "Ring Magazine", considered the "Bible of Boxing," where he's worked since October 1997 and has been the managing editor since 2004. In 2006, he was nominated for an Emmy Award for a special project piece for ESPN.com called "Love at First Beep," about blind baseball.

Santoliquito is most noted for his major feature of the tragic story of Pennsylvania high school wrestler A. J. Detwiler [http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=santoliquito/060222] that was the top story on ESPN.com on February 15, 2006. The story was turned into an ESPN SportsCenter feature on June 25, 2006, and later into a feature on HBO's "Real Sports". He has also received two Boxing Writers of America Association awards in 2002 and 2007 and was selected at Soccer Writer of the Year by the Philadelphia Soccer Coaches Association in 1998.

Santoliquito currently writes one of the most popular sports blogs in the Philadelphia area on 610WIP.com and is a frequent guest on 610 AM WIP in Philadelphia, as well as a regular contributor to Comcast SportsNet's "Daily News Live."

Notable works

[http://espn.go.com/swf/eticket/beep/beep.html?lpos=spotlight&lid=tab1pos1 Emmy-nominated story Beep baseball story for ESPN]

[http://www.philly.com/dailynews/sports/20070426_Evans_has_basketball_world_in_his_hands.html Tyreke Evans story (Daily News Thursday, April 26, 2007)]

[http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=santoliquito/060420 Walk of Life For Lost Boy Runner]

[http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?id=2672128 The "Philly embraces young heroes" story]

[http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=2683783 The "Hefty Lions' share: D-III Lincoln nets record 201 points" story]

[http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=2652707 The "Inside Temple: Fighting a culture of losing" story]

[http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/the_bonus/03/12/tyrone.lewis/index.html SI.com story on Tyrone Lewis]

[http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070930&content_id=2242107&vkey=news_phi&fext=.jsp&c_id=phi Fans share in euphoria of Phillies' berth]

[http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/scorecard/02/02/wing.bowl/index.html SI.com Wing Bowl story ]

[http://phillies.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20040321&content_id=664369&vkey=news_phi&fext=.jsp&c_id=phi Veterans Stadium comes down, March 21, 2004]

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