Frank Isola is an American sportswriter who covered the New York Knicks and the National Basketball Association for the New York Daily News from 1996 until 2018.[1][2] He currently works for ESPN and appears on the network’s shows Around the Horn[3] and Pardon the Interruption.[4] He is also one of the hosts of "The Starting Lineup" on SiriusXM NBA Radio.
He appears on broadcasts of Brooklyn Nets basketball games as a studio analyst on the YES Network[5] He also worked briefly for The Athletic as a senior writer before taking a full-time position at ESPN.[6] Isola received an APSE sports writing award in 1998 and was voted New York Sportswriter of the Year in 2015. He also received a New York Emmy Award in 2009-10 for his work on and SportsNet New York (SNY).[7]
Isola is a graduate of the University of Maryland, College Park, where he was a walk-on member of the men's soccer team, as well as a brother of the Eta chapter of Phi Sigma Kappa.[8] He is married to his wife Tonja and has two children. They reside in Upper Montclair, N.J. Tonja was inducted into the Manhattan College Hall of Fame for track & field. He has a son, Liam, who attended Northwestern, and a daughter, Gabby, who played for the Villanova Wildcats Women’s Soccer Team. She is now a graduate assistant for the Ohio University women's soccer team. [9]
References edit
- ^ "How Frank Isola Became the Most Hated Man at Madison Square Garden". 2 May 2013.
- ^ "New York Daily News Sports Section Cutting Jobs from 35 to Nine; Frank Isola Writes Farewell". 23 July 2018.
- ^ "ESPN on Facebook". Facebook. Archived from the original on 2022-04-27.[user-generated source]
- ^ https://www.instagram.com/thefrankisola/?hl=en
- ^ "Marchand: Jim Spanarkel heads to YES Network studio for new pre-game gig". 11 October 2019.
- ^ "Frank Isola: As LeBron begins his new era in Los Angeles, I'm starting the NBA season in a new place".
- ^ "Frank Isola - Sportswriter". Amherst College.
- ^ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: Ask Frank Isola!. YouTube.
- ^ "VILLANOVA.COM Gabrielle Isola Bio :: Villanova University Official Athletic Site Villanova University Official Athletic Site :: Women's Soccer". Villanova. Retrieved 28 April 2018.
External links edit
- Frank Isola at IMDb