Michael Farber (born September 1951)[1] is an American author and sports journalist, and was a writer with Sports Illustrated from 1994 to 2014.[2] He covered mostly ice hockey and Olympic sports. Before 1994, Farber spent 15 years as a sports columnist for the Montreal Gazette, and previously wrote for the Bergen Record, and the Sun Bulletin.[3] Farber is a commentator for CJAD 800 AM in Montreal, and on The Sports Network's The Reporters.[3]

Michael Farber
BornSeptember 1951 (1951-09) (age 72)
Occupation(s)Journalist, author
Employer(s)Sports Illustrated
Montreal Gazette

Farber grew up in Bayonne, New Jersey.[4] He graduated from Rutgers University in 1973, and is a Phi Beta Kappa Society member.[3] He relocated to Montreal in 1979.[2] He won the Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award in 2003, and is a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame selection committee.[5]

References edit

  1. ^ "Michael Farber". September 8, 2015.
  2. ^ a b "Vault: Michael Farber". SI.com. Sports Illustrated. Retrieved December 25, 2017.
  3. ^ a b c "Michael Farber". SI.com. Sports Illustrated. Retrieved December 25, 2017.
  4. ^ Farber, Michael. "Garden State: Returning to his hometown, Bayonne, the author marvels at the incongruity of an ultra exclusive golf club sharing a zip code with a city that's best known as a punch line", Sports Illustrated, November 12, 2007. Accessed December 26, 2017. "Bayonne is my hometown, in that I lived there for the formative years between fifth and 10th grade and the summers afterward."
  5. ^ "Selection Committee". Legends of Hockey. Hockey Hall of Fame. Retrieved December 25, 2017.