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Berkow earned his BA in English Literature at Miami University, and his MA from the Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University. [1] [2] He was a reporter for the Minneapolis Tribune, a syndicated features writer, sports and general columnist, and sports editor for the Newspaper Enterprise Association. [3]
Sep 22, 2020 · Berkow went to Sullivan High School. “I guarded him for part of the game,” Berkow writes, “and, with my teeth clenched and my eyes blazing with competitive fire, I helped keep him to 30 ...
Berkow recalls his formative years in Chicago, playing basketball in his neighborhood, and then acquaints the reader with the lessons he has learned from high school, college, and pickup basketball—including games with pro teammates.
Jun 4, 2024 · Growing up on Springfield Avenue near Roosevelt Road, Ira Berkow wasn't an academically strong student. He managed to matriculate to Miami University where a friend encouraged him to write about sports for the school newspaper.
Born in Chicago on January 7, 1940, Mr. Berkow received a bachelor of arts degree in English literature from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio in 1963 and a master's degree from the Medill School...
Feb 18, 1989 · It was 1951 or '52, as Dr. George L. Cross remembered it, a year or so after the University of Oklahoma won its first national football championship, and he, the school president, was defending a...
Ira Berkow (MSJ65) is a member of the inaugural class of the Medill Hall of Achievement of 1997. Berkow was a finalist for the 1988 Pulitzer Prize in Commentary for “thoughtful commentary on the sports scene.”
