Joseph Santoliquito

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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 currents 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 Amercia 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.



Some of his most noted works:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

09/30/2007 6:48 PM ET Fans share in euphoria of Phillies' berth Tears of joy shed as Philly clinches NL East title at home By Joseph Santoliquito/MLB.com http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070930&content_id=2242107&vkey=news_phi&fext=.jsp&c_id=phi

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

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