Ray Didinger

Ray was a sports columnist for the Philadelphia Bulletin and Philadelphia Daily News for three decades. He was named Pennsylvania Sportswriter of the Year five times and he was the first print journalist inducted into the Philadelphia Sports Hall of Fame. In 1995, he won the Dick McCann Award for long and distinguished coverage of professional football and his name was added to the writer's honor roll at the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. He won six Emmy Awards as a writer and producer for NFL Films. Ray has authored 12 books including his best selling memoir Finished Business: My Fifty Years of Headlines, Heroes and Heartaches. He is a talk show host on Sports Radio 94WIP and a football analyst on NBC Sports Philadelphia. Ray thanks Maria (always) for her support as well as Joe Canuso and Bruce Graham for their guidance and encouragement. A special thanks to Tommy McDonald for all those wonderful Sundays at Franklin Field.