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Kevin
Paul
Dupont
Topics on which writer/editor can comment:
Boston Bruins, National Hockey League, Olympics
Issues on which writer/editor can comment:
Dupont, a former staff writer at the Boston Herald American (1977-'93) and the New York Times (1983-'85), has been a senior staff writer in the Globe's sports department since 1985. He began his journalism career at the Globe as a copyboy in 1973. A Red Sox beat reporter during his tenure at the Herald, he also began covering the Bruins and the NHL in the late-1970s, and has since covered a wide variety of sports. The last two decades-plus for the Globe he has covered Super Bowls, the Stanley Cup finals and the World Series, as well as the following Olympic Games: Calgary (1988), Seoul (1988), Albertville (1992), Barcelona (1992), Lillehammer (1994), Atlanta (1996), Nagano (1988), Sydney (2000), Salt Lake City (2002) and Torino (2006). Since 2002, he also has written the On The Loose column, a column dedicated to an offbeat look at sports for the Globe's sports department. In 2002, Dupont was inducted in the Hockey Hall of Fame's media division as an Elmer Ferguson Award winner. Since 1998, he has been an on-line columnist for msnbc.com, and regularly contributes the Ask The Expert column on the NHL. Dupont co-hosts a weekly radio show (Saturdays, 11 a.m.-1 p.m.), the New England Hockey Journal Radio Show, on the local ESPN affiliate, 890 AM and 1400 AM. He is also the lead columnist for the New EngHockey Journal. He also appears regularly on two COMCAST cable shows, Out Of Bounds, both locally (from Brookline) and nationally (from Philadelphia). He appears regularly on NESN, NECN and WBZ Ch. 4, .and is frequently asked to appear on radio shows in the U.S. and Canada, mostly to comment about the NHL. He also has appeared on CNN, ESPN and the CBS Morning Show and is a former contributing writer to ESPN The Magazine. |