Andscape’s Marc J. Spears (print) and ESPN’s Holly Rowe (digital) have been named the recipients of the 2023 Naismith Corridor of Fame Curt Gowdy Media Award.
Spears started his profession protecting faculty basketball at numerous stops, together with the College of Arkansas, College of Louisville, the College of Kentucky and Cal-State Northridge. However he started protecting the NBA in 1999 when he started protecting the Denver Nuggets for The Denver Submit, and mentioned his profession modified without end when, in 2007, he took over the Boston Celtics beat at The Boston Globe within the wake of Kevin Garnett being traded there.
“After I acquired that job, in 2007, or after I was up for it, I keep in mind within the midst of me, the week earlier than I interviewed, they acquired Garnett,” Spears mentioned. “And I used to be like, ‘I’ve acquired to get this job.’ I acquired that job, and I keep in mind [NBA journalist] Ric Bucher telling me, ‘Persons are going to see your work in a different way now.’ Not that they did not assume it was good in Denver. However it’s the Celtics, and Boston.”
Spears went on to spend a number of years at Yahoo earlier than becoming a member of Andscape in 2016.
Rowe has labored for ESPN since August 1998 and has change into its lead males’s and girls’s faculty basketball reporter along with holding the identical position with the NBA, and in addition engaged on the Utah Jazz broadcast.Â
