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| birth_place = Oneida, New York, U.S.| other_names =Columnist|author}}| subjects = Sports| education = Boston College}}Michael Lupica ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|l|uː|p|ɪ|k|ə}}; born May 11, 1952) is an author and former American newspaper columnist, best known for his provocative commentary on sports in the New York Daily News and his appearances on ESPN.

Biography

Lupica was born in Oneida, New York, where he spent his pre-adolescent years, having attended St. Patrick's Elementary School through the sixth grade. In 1964, he moved with his family to Nashua, New Hampshire, where he attended middle school and subsequently Bishop Guertin High School, graduating in 1970. In 1974 he graduated from Boston College. He first came to prominence as a sportswriter in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. Lupica wrote "The Sporting Life" column at Esquire magazine for ten years beginning in the late 1980s, and currently writes a regular column for Travel + Leisure Golf. He has also written for Golf Digest, Parade, ESPN The Magazine, and Men’s Journal, and has received numerous awards including, in 2003, the Jim Murray Award from the National Football Foundation.Speaker Page: Mike Lupica {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061029030607weblink |date=October 29, 2006 }} from Greater Talent Network.

Daily News columnist

Lupica wrote several sports columns during the week for the Daily News, as well as a signature Sunday column, "Shooting from the Lip," which featured a traditional column followed by a series of short, acerbic observations from the week in sports. Later in his career he began writing a regular political column entitled "Mondays with Mike," which is strongly liberal in orientation. He left the Daily News in July 2018.Early Lead: Mike Lupica is leaving the New York Daily News to write detective novelsby Matt Bonesteel. The Washington Post. August 17, 2018 weblinkFavorite Lupica targets include the New York Yankees, (and will often state their massive payroll in most of his articles) James L. Dolan, Isiah Thomas, Notre Dame football, Rudy Giuliani, Michael Bloomberg, former President George W. Bush, and former Vice President Dick Cheney. Lupica has also been a harsh critic of the new Yankee Stadium and was a vehement opponent of the proposed West Side Stadium. He has likewise been highly critical of the Atlantic Yards project and the attendant construction of the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.

Author

Lupica co-wrote autobiographies with Reggie Jackson and Bill Parcells and collaborated with screenwriter William Goldman on Wait Till Next Year and Mad as Hell: How Sports Got Away From the Fans and How We Get It Back. Lupica also wrote Summer of ’98: When Homers Flew, Records Fell, and Baseball Reclaimed America, which detailed how the 1998 and the Mark McGwire/Sammy Sosa home run chase had allowed him to share a love for baseball with his son. Lupica has been listed a vocal critic of the steroid era.{{Citation needed|date=March 2008}}Lupica is also a novelist; his work includes mysteries involving fictional NYC television reporter Peter Finley. One of them, Dead Air, was nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best First Mystery and the 1987 Anthony Award in the same category; and was also adapted into a television movie called Money, Power, Murder.WEB,weblink Bouchercon World Mystery Convention : Anthony Awards Nominees, April 4, 2012, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20120207060829weblink">weblink February 7, 2012, He has written a novel for younger audiences called Travel Team. Lupica’s Bump and Run and Wild Pitch were best sellers. 2003 saw a sequel to Bump and Run, entitled Red Zone.In April 2006, his second children's book, Heat, was published by Philomel. Heat is a fictional story based on the Danny Almonte scandal in the South Bronx Little League. In October 2006, Lupica's third children's novel, Miracle on 49th Street, was published. Summer Ball, a sequel to Travel Team, was released in 2007.

Television and radio work

Since 1988 Lupica has been one of the rotating pundits on The Sports Reporters on ESPN.The Sports Reporters {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080205112357weblink |date=February 5, 2008 }} on TV.com. He also briefly hosted an unsuccessful television chat program, The Mike Lupica Show, on ESPN2, as well as a short-lived radio show on WFAN in New York City in the mid-1990s. He has been a recurring guest on the CBS Morning News, Good Morning America, and The MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour. Lupica has made frequent radio appearances on Imus in the Morning since the early 1980s."Press release" {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061117012608weblink |date=November 17, 2006 }} from Boats, Books, and Brushes, May 19, 2003 Lupica hosted a daily radio show on WEPN-FM from May 9, 2011, until August 21, 2015.WEB, Mike Lupica no longer on ESPN New York Radio,weblink September 16, 2015, WEB, ESPN Radio shakes up mid-day lineup, New York Daily News, August 25, 2015,weblink September 16, 2015,

Works

Non-series books

Adult books

• Reggie! (with Reggie Jackson, 1984)BOOK,weblink Reggie, Jackson, Reggie, Lupica, Mike, 1985, Ballantine Books, 978-0-345-31216-7, New York, en, 851759338,
• Parcells: An Autobiography of the Biggest Giant of Them All (with Bill Parcells, 1987)BOOK,weblink Parcells: autobiography of the biggest Giant of them all, Parcells, Bill, Lupica, Mike, 1987, Bonus Books, 978-0-933893-40-5, en, 16310516,
• Wait 'till Next Year: The Story of a Season When What Should've Happened Didn't and What Could've Gone Wrong Did (with William Goldman, 1988)BOOK,weblink Wait till next year: the story of a season when what should've happened didn't and what could've gone wrong did, Goldman, William, Lupica, Mike, 1989, Bantam, 978-0-553-28226-9, New York, en, 20516540,
• Shooting From The Lip: Essays, Columns, Quips, and Gripes in the Grand Tradition of Dyspeptic Sports Writing (1988)BOOK,weblink Shooting from the lip: essays, columns, quips, and gripes in the grand tradition of dyspeptic sports writing, Lupica, Mike, 1988, Bonus Books, 978-0-933893-60-3, en, 17991073, registration,
• Jump! (1995)BOOK,weblink Jump., Lupica, Mike, CloudLibrary, 2013, Random House Publishing, 978-0-307-82996-2, en, 1004751259,
• Mad as Hell: How Sports Got Away from the Fans and How We Get It Back (1996)BOOK,weblink Mad as hell: how sports got away from the fans-- and how we get it back, Lupica, Mike, 1998, NTC/Contemporary Books, 978-0-8092-3008-2, Lincolnwood, Chicago, Ill., en, 37631204,
• (Summer of ’98|Summer of '98: When Homers Flew, Records Fell, and Baseball Reclaimed America) (1999)BOOK, Summer of '98: when homers flew, records fell, and baseball reclaimed America, Lupica, Mike, 2000, Contemporary Books, 978-0-8092-2444-9, Lincolnwood, Ill., en, 57300451,
• Yankees '98: Best Ever! (a compendium of Daily News coverage, 1999)
• Bump and Run (2000)BOOK, Yankees '98: best ever!, New York Daily News, New York Yankees (Baseball team), 1998, Sports Pub., 978-1-58261-030-6, Champaign, IL 61821, en, 41517004,
• Full Court Press (2001){{Citation|title=Full court press|date=2013|language=en|isbn=978-1-4692-4436-5|oclc=852820581}}
• Wild Pitch (2002)BOOK, Wild pitch, Lupica, Mike, 2003, Berkley Books, 978-0-425-19204-7, New York, en, 883946251,
• Red Zone (2003)BOOK, Red zone, Lupica, Mike, 2004, Berkley Books, 978-0-425-19875-9, New York, en, 56620942,
• Too Far (2004)BOOK,weblink Too far, Lupica, Mike, 2014, Berkley Books, 978-1-101-19184-2, New York, en, 883343501, May 26, 2019,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20190110073841weblink">weblink January 10, 2019, dead,
• Best American Sports Writing 2005 (edited by; 2005)BOOK, The best American sports writing 2005, Stout, Glenn, Lupica, Mike, 2005, Houghton Mifflin, 978-0-618-47019-8, Boston, en, 65428812,
• Fathers & Sons & Sports: An Anthology of Great American Sports Writing (2008)BOOK, Fathers & sons & sports: great writing, Bissinger, Buzz, Lupica, Mike, 2009, ESPN Books, 978-1-933060-70-5, New York, en, 262433255,

Young adult books

• Heat (2005)BOOK, Heat, Lupica, Mike, 2015, Scholastic, Inc., 978-0-545-79590-6, New York, en, 1028750666,
• Miracle on 49th Street (2006)BOOK,weblink Miracle on 49th street, Lupica, Mike, 2014, Puffin Books, 978-1-101-20056-8, New York, en, 883343560, May 26, 2019,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20190110073841weblink">weblink January 10, 2019, dead,
• The Big Field (2008)BOOK, The big field, Lupica, Mike, 2012, National Geographic Books, 978-0-14-241910-6, en, 973485190,
• Million-Dollar Throw (2009)BOOK,weblink Million-dollar throw, Lupica, Mike, 2014, Puffin Books, 978-1-101-10905-2, New York, en, 883343550, May 26, 2019,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20190110073841weblink">weblink January 10, 2019, dead,
• The Batboy (2010)BOOK,weblink The batboy, Lupica, Mike, 2014, Puffin Books, 978-1-101-15988-0, New York, en, 883343484,
• Hero (2010)BOOK,weblink Hero, Lupica, Mike, 2014, Puffin Books, 978-1-101-19837-7, New York, en, 883343483,
• Underdogs (2011)BOOK,weblink The underdogs, Lupica, Mike, 2014, Puffin Books, 978-1-101-53568-4, New York, en, 883343526, May 26, 2019,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20190110073841weblink">weblink January 10, 2019, dead,
• True Legend (2012)BOOK, True legend, Lupica, Mike, 2013, Penguin, 978-0-14-242650-0, en, 814454890,
• QB 1 (2013)BOOK, QB 1, Lupica, Mike, 2014, Penguin, 978-0-14-751152-2, en, 861478578,
• Fantasy League (2014)BOOK, Fantasy League, Lupica, Mike, 2015, Puffin Books, 978-0-14-751494-3, New York (N.Y.), en, 944227689,
• The Only Game (2015)BOOK, The only game. (Home team, vol. 1.), Lupica, Mike, 2015, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 978-1-4814-0995-7, New York, en, 946962114,
• Fast Break (2015)BOOK, Fast break, Lupica, Mike, 2017, Scholastic, Incorporated, 978-1-338-16593-7, en, 1013185025,
• The Extra Yard (2017)BOOK, The Extra Yard: a Home Team Novel, Lupica, Mike, 2017, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 978-1-4814-1001-4, en, 982649965,

Series

Adult series

Peter Finley series

• Dead Air (1986)BOOK,weblink Dead air, Lupica, Mike, 1987, Ballantine Books, 978-0-345-30813-9, New York, en, 15605317,
• Extra Credits (1990)BOOK, Extra credits, Lupica, Mike, 1990, Ballantine Books, 978-0-345-36029-8, New York, en, 22377327,
• Limited Partner (1990)BOOK, Limited partner, Lupica, Mike, 1992, Ballantine Books, 978-0-345-37237-6, New York, en, 25023505,

Young adult series

Comeback Kids series

• Two-Minute Drill (2007)BOOK,weblink Mike Lupica's Comeback Kids: Two Minute Drill., Lupica, Mike, 2007, Philomel Books, 978-0-399-24715-6, New York, NY, en, 731318220,
• Hot Hand (2007)BOOK, Hot hand. 1 1, Lupica, Mike, 2007, Philomel Books ; Walden Media, 978-0-399-24714-9, New York; Boston, MA, en, 972377692,
• Safe at Home (novel) (2008)BOOK, Safe at home: a Comeback Kids novel, Lupica, Mike, 2013, Abdo Publishing Company, 978-1-59961-177-8, en, 990315591,
• Long Shot (2008)BOOK, Long shot: a comeback kids novel, Lupica, Mike, 2013, Spotlight, 978-1-59961-176-1, en, 990323441,
• Shoot-Out (2010)BOOK, Shoot-out, Lupica, Mike, 2018, Penguin, 978-0-451-47934-1, en, 1004104563,

Game Changers series

• Game Changers (2012)BOOK, Game changers, Lupica, Mike, 2014, Scholastic Inc, 978-0-545-68784-3, New York, en, 887216303,
• Play Makers (2013)BOOK,weblink Play makers, Lupica, Mike, 2013, Scholastic, Incorporated, 978-0-545-38183-3, en, 820148200, registration,
• Heavy Hitters (2014)BOOK, Game changers. Heavy hitters 03 03, Lupica, Mike, 2014, Scholastic Incorporated, 978-0-545-38184-0, en, 880828232,

Zach and Zoe mystery series

• The Hockey Rink HuntBOOK, The hockey rink hunt, Lupica, Mike, Danger, Chris., 2019, 978-0-425-28948-8, New York, 1060183812,

Related books

• Travel Team (2004)BOOK,weblink Travel team, Lupica, Mike, 2014, Puffin Books, 978-1-101-20047-6, New York, en, 883343400, May 26, 2019,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20190110073841weblink">weblink January 10, 2019, dead,
• Summer Ball (2007)BOOK,weblink Summer ball, Lupica, Mike, 2014, Puffin Books, 978-1-101-20062-9, New York, en, 883343559,

References

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External links

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