Robert P. Ryan (born February 21, 1946 in Trenton, New Jersey) is a longtime^[1] columnist for the Boston Globe and a sports talk show host on the New England Sports Network. He has been described as a basketball guru^[2] and is well known for his coverage of the sport including his famous stories covering the Boston Celtics in the 1970s. After graduating from Boston College, Ryan started as a sports intern for the Globe on the same day as Peter Gammons.^[3] He is well known for his stuttering voice and has said of it "I don't like my own voice – in fact I hate it."^[4] Bob Ryan is the Prophet of the Golden Sun, fortold by the Sage Zarmatha in the year 1230 in the Emerald Palace, it was there that Zarmatha gazed into the sphere of Oberona and exclaimed to the Council of 9, Behold, in the year 2010 the chosen meteorologist, Bob Ryan... is the 52nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full 1946 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Nickname: Location of Trenton inside of Mercer County Coordinates: , Country State County Mercer Incorporated November 13, 1792 Government  - Mayor Douglas H. Palmer Area  - City  8. ... The Boston Globe is the most widely-circulated daily newspaper in Boston, Massachusetts and in the greater New England region. ... The New England Sports Network, or NESN [NESS-en], is a regional cable television network that covers the six New England states. ... The Boston Celtics are a professional basketball team based in Boston, Massachusetts. ... For similarly-named academic institutions, see Education in Boston, MA. Boston College (BC) is a private university located in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, in the New England region of the United States. ... Peter Gammons (born April 9, 1945)[1][2]is a sportswriter, media personality and a National Baseball Hall of Fame honoree. ...

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Biography and career

Personal background

Ryan is a history major from Boston College (class of 1968). He went to high school at The Lawrenceville School from 1960 to 1964. He and his wife Elaine have a daughter Jessica, and a son Keith who died in 2008. They are grandparents of triplets. They have been married since 1969. Today Ryan lives in Hingham, Massachusetts.^[4] The dedication page in Forty Eight Minutes, one of Ryan's books, says, "To Elaine Ryan: In the next life, maybe you'll get a nine-to-five man who makes seven figures." Ryan has also done humanitarian fundraisers for years to help inner-city teenagers with their educations. Hingham is a town in Plymouth County on the South Shore of Massachusetts. ...

Son's death

On January 28, 2008 his 37 year old son Keith, was found dead in his home in Islamabad, Pakistan. Initial reports indicated that his death was an apparent suicide, however reports in the Pakistani newspapers Dawn and The News International indicated that Ryan's death may be investigated as a murder. A State Department spokesperson would only say the death was under investigation.^[5] Bob Ryan released the following statement: "Everyone is devastated. I am well aware of these reports and we are very concerned about that. (But) we have no reason at this time to doubt the official version".^[6] is the 28th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2008 (MMVIII) is the current year, a leap year that started on Tuesday of the Anno Domini (or common era), in accordance to the Gregorian calendar. ... Faisal Mosque, located in Islamabad, the capital city of Pakistan, was built in 1986. ... Dawn is Pakistans oldest and most widely-read English-language newspaper. ... The News International (ISSN 1563-9479) is the largest English language newspaper in Pakistan, published simultaneously from Islamabad, Karachi and Lahore. ...

Keith had been working in Pakistan since December 2006 as an attache for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. Keith was a graduate of Hingham High School, Trinity College, the London School of Economics and Boston College Law School. He had previously worked for the U.S. Border Patrol and the Immigration and Naturalization Service, where he was assigned to the violent gang task force. Keith was married to Kate (Moriarty) and had three children, Conor, John, and Amelia, who live in Silver Spring, Maryland.^[7][8][9] ... Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is the largest and primary investigative arm of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and is responsible for identifying, investigating, and dismantling vulnerabilities regarding the nations border, economic, transportation, and infrastructure security. ... Trinity College is a private liberal arts college in Hartford, Connecticut. ... Mascot: Beaver Affiliations: University of London Russell Group EUA ACU CEMS APSIA Universities UK U8 Golden Triangle G5 Group Website: http://www. ... Boston College Law School, known colloquially as BC Law, is one of the six professional graduate schools at Boston College. ... Categories: Stub | U.S. Dept. ... Old INS building in Seattle The United States Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) was a part of the United States Department of Justice and handled legal and illegal immigration and naturalization. ... Not to be confused with Silver Springs. ...

Celtics beat writer

In the fall of 1969 a vacancy on the Globe's Celtics beat was created, and Ryan would take that job. While covering the Celtics Ryan would have a close relationship with the Celtics organization. Ryan would even go out to dinner with the team.^[3] Ryan would sit at the press table 8 seats from the Celtics' bench, where colleagues referred to him as the "Commissioner", not unlike Peter Gammons's nickname. Boston Sports Media critic Bruce Allen^[10] has said, "his passion is not faked."^[11] Peter Gammons (born April 9, 1945)[1][2]is a sportswriter, media personality and a National Baseball Hall of Fame honoree. ...

One night Hue Hollins, the referee, went to the press table to explain a call to Ryan during a time-out even though he was not obligated to. Another time Ryan wrote a column about the Washington Bullets' Rick Mahorn and how he played dirty under the hoop. When Mahorn was called for a foul Gene Shue, the Bullets' coach, turned around and said, "that's your fault, Bob Ryan, your fault!" Dennis Johnson was often annoyed with Ryan and would go up to the press table and say, "hey, Bob, keep it down. We got a game going on here" when Ryan sideline coached.^[12] From Ryan's first column on Larry Bird headlined "Celtics draft Bird for oh what a future" to his last "Larry! Larry! Larry!" Ryan was always a fan of his and eventually co-authored a book with him.^[13] Washington Bullets may refer to either the former name of the Washington Wizards basketball team or the song by The Clash, Washington Bullets (song). ... Derrick (Rick) Allen Mahorn (born September 21, 1958 in Hartford, Connecticut) is a former NBA basketball player who, at 68. ... Dennis Johnson (September 18, 1954 – February 22, 2007), nicknamed DJ, was an American professional basketball player and coach. ... Larry Joe Bird (born December 7, 1956) is a retired American NBA basketball player, widely considered one of the best players of all time, and one of the best clutch performers in the history of sports. ...

In Tom (Tommy) Heinsohn's book Give 'em the Hook, Heinsohn is negative towards Ryan. Ryan, who began writing for the Globe in Heinsohn's rookie season as a coach, would make friends with the players and vent their feelings towards Heinsohn, their fans, and their teammates, claims Heinsohn. Heinsohn didn't like how he didn't feel in control of his team. Heinsohn believes that Ryan started to "think of himself as another member of the family" and that he even started coaching the team through his beat stories. Heinsohn goes on to talk about Ryan's bloated ego and the fact that he was then thinking of himself as a basketball guru. Heinsohn also says while noting disapproval of Ryan that at the time anyone who lived in Boston and even remotely followed basketball read Bob Ryan.^[14] In recent years Ryan has been less critical of Celtics coaches, including Doc Rivers, of whom he said, "I'm a Doc guy." Glenn Anton Doc Rivers (born October 13, 1961 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American former professional basketball player from Marquette University who played point guard in the National Basketball Association notably for the Atlanta Hawks, Los Angeles Clippers, New York Knicks, and San Antonio Spurs. ...

General sports columnist

In 1982 Ryan would hand the torch of the Globe Celtics beat to then-not well known Dan Shaughnessy, and later Jackie MacMullan. He did this in order to go to WCVB for a couple of years. Ryan ended up hating it and moved back to the Celtics beat in 1984 for two more seasons before getting promoted to general sports columnist in 1989.^[15] Dan Shaughnessy is a sports columnist and reporter for The Boston Globe. ... Jackie MacMullan is an American newspaper sportswriter, columnist and editor. ... WCVB-TV is the ABC affiliate in Boston, Massachusetts. ...

Ryan would cover 20 NBA finals, 20 Final Fours, 9 World Series, five Super Bowls, the last 7 Olympics and many other events. In recent times Ryan has become less basketball-oriented and more general sports-oriented. He has also written for the Basketball Times. Bob votes for the Baseball Hall of Fame.^[16] The National Basketball Association of the United States and Canada, commonly known as the NBA, is the premier professional basketball league in North America. ... For other events named World Series, see World Series (disambiguation). ... The winning Super Bowl team receives the Vince Lombardi Trophy. ... The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, located at 25 Main Street in Cooperstown, New York, United States, is a semi-official museum operated by private interests that serves as the central point for the study of the history of baseball in the United States and beyond, the display...

Awards

• Dick Schaap Award for Outstanding Journalism recipient in 2006.
• In 1997, Ryan won the Curt Gowdy Award from the Basketball Hall of Fame.
• In 2000 he was the AP National Sportswriter of the Year.
• In 2008 he was the NSSA’s National Sportswriter of the Year.
• He is also a member of the College Basketball Writers and New England Basketball Halls of Fame.

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Retirement

At 60, Ryan wants his retirement from the job to be graceful: "I’m not bitter. I enjoy my job and I still think I do it well, but they are chipping away, chipping away and they are making it far less pleasurable. I want to get out when I feel like getting out. If you stay around too long, there is no way you can dictate your terms", he said. Ryan also asked, "How do you explain to Stephen A. Smith that he has no idea of the game and how much fun it was? He thinks he knows everything, but he will never know what I know about the Celtics."^[3] Stephen Anthony Smith (born October 14, 1967), usually referred to as Stephen A., is a sportswriter and media personality from Hollis, Queens in New York City. ...

Television and radio work

Globe 10.0

On June 26, 2007 Bob Ryan's show, Globe 10.0 made its premiere on the New England Sports Network. The half hour show which airs every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, features Ryan interviewing different Boston Globe sports writers on ten issues related to New England sports. Boston Globe sports columnist Dan Shaughnessy appeared in the premiere episode.^[17][18] is the 177th day of the year (178th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ... The New England Sports Network, or NESN [NESS-en], is a regional cable television network that covers the six New England states. ... Dan Shaughnessy is a sports columnist and reporter for The Boston Globe. ...

Guest appearances

Ryan is a regular guest on radio; some of his appearances on the radio include:

• The Bob Ryan Report on Loren and Wally (WROR-FM): Every Thursday morning at 7:50 a.m. he goes on to give his opinion about Boston sports.
• Ryan contributes to Michael Felger's show. He used to contribute to Dennis and Callahan on WEEI.^[19]
• Roundtable (featuring Ryan) on NPR's On Point to talk about the decline in basketball viewership.
• Bob is a weekly contributor to the "Marty and Miller" radio program on [KXNO] in Des Moines, Iowa.
• The Tony Kornheiser Show; Ryan has appeared on the first episode of most of Kornheiser's show incarnations. Kornheiser calls Ryan "the quintessential American sportswriter".
• Ryan is also a frequent guest host on ESPN's Pardon the Interruption and guest on The Sports Reporters.
• He is a regular contributor on the show Around the Horn of which he has--by far--the highest winning percentage of everyone on the show.^{[citation needed]}
• In addition Bill Simmons has called him "the best basketball writer ever." Paul Silas joked on Cold Pizza while Ryan was a guest, that all Bob Ryan's success was due to him.^[20]

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Controversies and mistakes

Joumana Kidd comments

In May 2003, Ryan appeared on Sports Final, a local sports talk show airing on WBZ-TV. At that time, Ryan said that Joumana Kidd, the wife of New Jersey Nets guard Jason Kidd needed someone to "smack" her for taking her son T.J., then 4 years old, to NBA play-off night games where they could be taunted.^[21] He accused Joumana of being an exhibitionist and using the child as a prop to get television time. The show's host, Bob Lobel, asked Ryan to retract his statement, but Ryan refused, saying: WBZ-TV is the CBS owned-and-operated television station serving the Boston, Massachusetts television market. ... The New Jersey Nets are a professional basketball team. ... Jason Frederick Kidd (born March 23, 1973) is an American professional basketball player in the NBA who currently plays for the Dallas Mavericks. ... Bob Lobel is a sportscaster for WBZ-TV in Boston, Massachusetts. ...

• LOBEL: You just don’t want to smack her. You don’t mean to say that.
• RYAN: Alright.
• LOBEL: I mean. Do you? Really, do you? Tell me you don’t.
• RYAN: Why should I say anything different here than I said all last playoffs last year?^[22]

The comments struck a chord because in 2001, Joumana Kidd had been the victim of Domestic violence by her husband, Jason Kidd.^[23] Ryan would return to Boston to meet with executives at the Globe. Ryan later apologized, but the Globe still suspended him and barred him from television for one month. "Four weeks took my breath away. But I’ll abide by it", he later said.^[22] Then Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney chastised Ryan for his comments^[24] Domestic disturbance redirects here. ... Willard Mitt Romney (born March 12, 1947) was the 70th Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. ...

Some like Gerry Callahan of the Boston Herald would defend Ryan while others such as Herald Ombudsman Jim Baker did not.^[22] The Boston Phoenix called it a "moment of temporary insanity."^[25] Ryan later said, "I'm angry with myself forgetting in the heat of battle that the woman had been hit."^[4] Dennis and Callahan is a popular morning radio show on WEEI, a sports radio station in Boston. ... The Boston Herald is a tabloid format newspaper, though not a tabloid in the traditional sense, and is the smaller of the two big dailies in Boston, Massachusetts (the other being The Boston Globe). ... For the Canadian television series, see Ombudsman (TV series). ... The Phoenix is an alternative weekly newspaper company based in Boston, Massachusetts that emphasizes arts and entertainment coverage, as well as alternative political viewpoints. ...

2006 Final Four column

Ryan made an embarrassing mistake in 2006 when he wrote a column promoting the Final Four matchup of Louisiana State University and George Mason University, and recommending fans tune to see two of the biggest players in college basketball, LSU's Glen Big Baby Davis and George Mason's Jai Lewis. However, LSU and George Mason were on different sides of the NCAA Bracket and were not scheduled to play one another. No one caught the error and this inaccurate column was run in the Boston Globe.^[26] The 2006 NCAA Mens Division I Basketball Tournament involved 65 schools playing in a single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of mens NCAA Division I college basketball. ... For other uses, see LSU. Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, generally known as Louisiana State University or LSU, is a public, coeducational university located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and the main campus of the Louisiana State University System. ... George Mason University, also known as GMU or simply Mason, is a large public university in the United States. ... Ronald Glen Davis (born January 1, 1986 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana), commonly referred to as Glen Davis and nicknamed Big Baby, is an American basketball player for the NBAs Boston Celtics. ... Jai Lamar Lewis (born February 13, 1983) is an American athlete who was signed as an undrafted free agent by the New York Giants of the National Football League following the 2006 NFL Draft. ...

Theo Epstein confrontation

Like fellow Globe sports columnist Dan Shaughnessy he had a run-in with Red Sox GM Theo Epstein. In November 2006 he had a small unfriendly exchange with Epstein saying "on behalf of an eager constituency, I hope the rumor (of a J. D. Drew deal) isn't true."^[27] Curt Schilling would call into Dennis and Callahan and call out Ryan,^[28] but some like NBC Sports's Tom Curran sided with Ryan. Dan Shaughnessy is a sports columnist and reporter for The Boston Globe. ... Theo N. Epstein (born December 29, 1973 in New York City) is the Executive Vice President/General Manager of the Boston Red Sox. ... David Jonathan Drew (born November 20, 1975, in Valdosta, Georgia, United States) is a Major League Baseball right fielder for the Boston Red Sox. ... Curtis Montague (Curt) Schilling (born November 14, 1966 in Anchorage, Alaska) is an American Major League Baseball right-handed starting pitcher for the Boston Red Sox. ... Dennis and Callahan is a popular morning radio show on WEEI, a sports radio station in Boston. ... The NBC Sports logo used since 1989. ...

Books

• Wait Till I Make the Show: Baseball in the Minor Leagues (1974)
• Celtics pride: The rebuilding of Boston's world championship basketball team (1975)
• The Pro Game: The World of Professional Basketball (1975)
• Hondo: Celtic Man in Motion (1977) coauthored with John Havlicek
• Forty Eight Minutes (1987) with Terry Pluto
• Cousy on the Celtic Mystique (1988) coauthored with Bob Cousy
• Drive: The Story of My Life (1989) coauthored with Larry Bird
• Boston Celtics: The History, Legends, and Images of America's Most Celebrated Team (1990)
• The Four Seasons (1997)
• The Road to the Super Bowl (1997)
• A Day of Light and Shadows (2000) Only introduction
• When Boston Won the World Series: A Chronicle of Boston's Remarkable Victory in the First Modern World Series of 1903 (2004) released before Red Sox victory
• The Best of Sport: Classic Writing from the Golden Era of Sports (2005)

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External links

• Bob Ryan's Blog
• Bob Ryan 2006 Red Sox Profiles