Mike Vaccaro has been the lead sports columnist for The New York Post since November 2002. Previously, he was a columnist at the Newark Star-Ledger, Kansas City Star and Middletown (N.Y.) Times Herald-Record. He was also sports editor of the Northwest Arkansas Times, and when he was appointed to that position in 1991, he was, at age 24, the youngest sports editor at a daily U.S. newspaper. Vaccaro has won more than 50 writing
awards since beginning his career
in 1989 as a reporter for the Olean
(NY) Times - Herald, where his
primary beat was St. Bonaventure
basketball. He appears as a regular guest on
many radio & television programs. Vaccaro is a 1989 graduate of
St. Bon-
aventure. He and his wife,
Leigh, live in Hillsdale, N.J.
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