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Bernard Fernandez (born September 21, 1947) is an American sportswriter and author from New Orleans, Louisiana. He is an inductee into the International Boxing Hall of Fame’s Class of 2020, in the Observer category. Fernandez was a newspaper sportswriter for 43 years before retiring in 2012 after 28 years with Philadelphia Daily News. He is a ...
- American
- 1969 - 2012 (retired)
- Sportswriter, author
When Hall of Fame boxing writer Bernard Fernandez set about compiling his anthology ( Championship Rounds, published in 2020) he had some hard decisions to make. During his career as a sportswriter, a career now in its fifth decade, he produced a massive amount of material.
- Arne K. Lang
Jun 28, 2022 · June 28, 2022. By. Arne K. Lang. It’s been a month of accolades for longtime boxing scribe Bernard Fernandez, a regular contributor to these pages. On Sunday, June 12, he was formally inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame. Last week he learned that he was the recipient of yet another Bernie Award for outstanding writing.
- Arne K. Lang
Jul 2, 2023 · Bernard Fernandez, the former boxing writer for the Philadelphia Daily News, was inducted into the International Boxing Hall-of-Fame in 2020. He skipped the induction ceremony to be with his...
A sports writing veteran of 43 years, the last 28 with the Philadelphia Daily News before retiring on April 1, 2012, Fernandez covers everything in “Championship Rounds” from a one-legged fighter to the promise Hall of Famer Bernard Hopkins made to a terminally ill teenager, then defying the odds again to make good on the vow by upsetting ...
Jun 20, 2020 · Worldwide. MUST READ: “Championship Rounds” by Hall of Fame Writer Bernard Fernandez. Published. on. June 20, 2020. By. Robert Mladinich. For more than four decades, Bernard Fernandez was a sportswriter. From 1984 until his retirement in 2012 he covered boxing for the Philadelphia Daily News.
Mar 11, 2024 · Brett Flores first moved to the city from Los Angeles in 2019 to work as a caretaker for Bernard Fernandez, a onetime executive for watch giant E. Gluck Corp., who was suffering from brain bleeding and was in the early stages of dementia, the source said.
