Mark S. Hyman
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| Born: | Freehold Borough, New Jersey |
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| Occupation: | Sportswriter |
| Nationality: | USA |
| Subjects: | Sports, Sports Business |
Mark S. Hyman (b. 1956) is an author and a freelance journalist who covers sports business. Hyman co-authored a book with Jon Miller entitled Confessions of a Baseball Purist (ISBN 0-684-84518-0) The book is an autobiography of Miller. Hyman's book on youth sports injuries, and the pressures on young athletes to excel, will be published by Beacon Press in 2008. Mark also has his own blog on the subject [1]. Mark's official website is here. [2]
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[edit] Career
Hyman has been a writer and a contributing editor for BusinessWeek since 1997. His stories have ranged from profiles of sports team owners including Peter Angelos and Mark Cuban to investigative reports on the fraudulent dealings of a fallen NASCAR team owner and the mysterious public company controlled by a National Football League investor who caught the attention of the Securities and Exchange Commission. He also currently writes a monthly sports law column for the Sports Business Journal. Before working at BusinessWeek and the Sports Business Journal, he was an enterprise and investigative sports reporter at the Baltimore Sun from 1986-1997. He served as the newspaper’s news and investigative reporter in the sports department. His coverage included all the major sports news stories of this period, including the cocaine-induced death of Maryland basketball star Len Bias, the political and economic stories behind the construction of Camden Yards, the descent into bankruptcy of Orioles owner Eli Jacobs and purchase of the team by Baltimore lawyer Peter Angelos. Before his stint at the Sun, he was the baseball beat writer at the Baltimore News American, covering the Baltimore Orioles. He has also worked at the Dallas Times-Herald, the Philadelphia Bulletin and the Norfolk Ledger-Star.
[edit] Awards
- Best news story, third place, Associated Press Sports Editors National Contest, 1992 (Bankruptcy of Baltimore Orioles owner Eli Jacobs)
- Best news reporting, first place, Society of Professional Journalists, Maryland Chapter, 1990. (Sale of the Baltimore Orioles)
- Best investigative reporting, second place, Associated Press Sports Editors National Contest, 1983 (Investigation of Southern Methodist University football program).
[edit] Education
- B.S. Cum Laude, University of Pennsylvania, 1978
- J.D. University of Maryland School of Law, 1995
- Fellow, Knight Center for Specialized Journalism, The Business of Sports, 2005
