Shira Springer

Springer is special projects reporter for the Boston Globe's sports section. Before that she served as the Celtics beat writer. Her coverage of the Celtics, the NBA, as well as the larger sports world has earned awards from the Associated Press Sports Editors for investigative and explanatory journalism and the Women’s Sports Foundation for feature writing. She has appeared on numerous ESPN programs and MSNBC as well as the Comcast program “Out of Bounds”, NESN and NECN, providing commentary on a wide-range of NBA and other sports-related topics.  She also provides commentary for NBA TV and NBA Radio programs.

Since joining the Globe in 1997, Springer has covered the Red Sox, the Patriots, the Bruins, the Revolution, the women’s soccer World Cup, NASCAR, the Boston Marathon and local and national college athletics. She was honored for her coverage of former Celtic Vin Baker and his announcement that he suffered from alcoholism, as well as a three-part investigative series on the lives of Cuban athletes who have defected. Her writing also appears in the Globe magazine and Travel section. In a magazine cover piece entitled, “A Narrow Escape,” Springer detailed the story of her family’s escape from Nazi Germany. For the Travel section, she has written about ski resorts in Utah, hidden gems in Hartford, Conn. and traveling with special dietary needs among other topics, borrowing from her experiences traveling throughout Europe writing travel guides.

Springer graduated from Harvard College in 1997 with a degree in Social Studies (Political and Social Theory and Philosophy). She was a distance runner on the cross-country and track and field teams and continues her interest in the sport by running marathons. She also speaks fluent German.