Michael Farber

Michael Farber
Residence Montreal, Quebec
Occupation Journalist, author
Employer Sports Illustrated
Montreal Gazette
Home town Bayonne, New Jersey

Michael Farber is an American author and sports journalist, and was a writer with Sports Illustrated from 1994 to 2014.[1] 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.[2] Farber is a commentator for CJAD 800 AM in Montreal, and on The Sports Network's The Reporters.[2]

Farber grew up in Bayonne, New Jersey.[3] He graduated from Rutgers University in 1973, and is a Phi Beta Kappa Society member.[2] He relocated to Montreal in 1979.[1] He won the Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award in 2003, and is a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame selection committee.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 "Vault: Michael Farber". SI.com. Sports Ilustrated. Retrieved 2017-12-25.
  2. 1 2 3 "Michael Farber". SI.com. Sports Ilustrated. Retrieved 2017-12-25.
  3. ↑ Farber, Michael. "Garden State: Returning to his hometown, Bayonne, the author marvels at the incongruity of an ultraexclusive 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."
  4. ↑ "Selection Committee". Legends of Hockey. Hockey Hall of Fame. Retrieved 2017-12-25.



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