Tag Archives: St. John’s
Bob Wolff
Bob Wolff (Sportscaster. Born, New York, NY, Nov. 29, 1920.) Acknowledged as the longest-running sportscaster in television history, Robert A. Wolff has been on the New York sports scene since 1954. Wolff began in Washington, D.C., in 1946 with the old DuMont Network. He became the Knicks television voice in 1954, beginning an association with […]
Colin Stephenson
Colin Stephenson (Sportswriter. Born, Jamaica, W.I., Jan. 27, 1964.) A journalism major at St. John’s, Colin Andrew Stephenson began his professional career as a news reporter at the Courier-News (Bridgewater, N.J.) in 1987. Stephenson switched to sports in 1988 and moved to the Asbury Park Press in 1989. At the Press, he was a ubiquitous N.H.L. […]
Jack Kaiser
Jack Kaiser (College athletics. Born, Brooklyn, NY, Oct. 6, 1926.) A highly-successful baseball coach, John Warren Kaiser served 22 years (1973-95) as St. John’s director of athletics. Kaiser was also one of three founders of the Big East Conference in 1979 (Dave Gavitt of Providence and Seton Hall’s Richie Regan were the others). He played […]
Bill Esposito
Bill Esposito (Public relations. Born, Brooklyn, NY, Sept. 9, 1932; died, East Patchogue, LI, Sept. 9, 1995.) William Esposito was sports information director at St. John’s for 23 years (1961-84) and served as president of CoSIDA, the college sports information directors’ organziation, in 1976-77. He was a noted authority on jazz music who lectured extensively […]