Ivan Maisel
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Ivan Maiselis a nationalcollege footballwriter.
Career
[edit]An alumnus ofMurphy Highin Mobile andStanford University,Maisel began his career atThe Atlanta Constitutionin 1981, where he coveredClemson's unlikely run to the national championship.Sports Illustratedhired him as a reporter (fact-checker) the following year. He began covering national college football in 1987 for theDallas Morning News,then moved toNewsdayin 1994. He rejoined Sports Illustrated in 1997 as a senior writer. In 2002, ESPN hired him as its first college football writer. Maisel appeared on ESPN television, radio and podcasts. For many years he co-hosted the ESPN college football podcast. His regular guests included ESPN analystBeano Cook(until Cook's death in October 2012),Gene Wojciechowski,and other ESPN colleagues.
Maisel served as the Editor-at-Large of ESPN College Football 150, the multi-platform project commemorating the 2019 sesquicentennial of the sport. In that role, Maisel served as the writer and host of Down & Distance, a podcast series, as a producer of The American Game and The Greatest, two 11-week series, and as a producer of Saturdays in the South, an eight-week series on theSEC Network.
Maisel has been honored nine times for Best Story by theFootball Writers Association of America,most recently for a 2022 remembrance of the late football coachMike Leach.The FWAA honored Maisel in 2016 with theBert McGrane Award,the organization’s Hall of Fame. He has been honored twice by theAssociated PressSports Editors, who in 2019 named him one of the 10 best sports columnists in the nation. In 2020, theCollege Sports Information Directors of Americapresented Maisel the Jake Wade Award for his contribution to intercollegiate athletics.[1]Maisel also won theEdwin PopeVanguard Media Award from theOrange Bowlin 2019.
Maisel announced on Twitter in November 2020 that ESPN had informed him it would not renew his contract.[2]He left the company in January 2021. On June 1, Maisel announced that he had been hired by On3 Media for its new website. On3 began operating on August 1, 2021. Maisel worked for On3 until June 2023, when he announced his departure. Later that year he signed a contract with Hachette to write a biography of former Notre Dame head coachFrank Leahy,which will be published in September 2025.
Personal life
[edit]Maisel was born to aJewishfamily in Mobile, Alabama,[3]the son of Freida Gutlow Maisel and real estate developer Herman Maisel.[4]He has one brother, Elliot Maisel, and one sister, Kathy Bronstein.[4]Ivan Maisel has often joked about his odd background, being a Jewish Alabamian.
Maisel's son, Max, went missing and was last seen on Sunday, February 22, 2015 leaving his apartment complex in Rochester, NY. On Friday, April 18, 2015 a body matching Max Maisel's description was found in Lake Ontario. On April 21, 2015 Max's body was positively identified.[5]Max was a junior professional photographic illustration student atRIT.[6]Maisel would later say "circumstantial evidence" pointed to suicide as the cause of Max's death.[7]In September 2018, Maisel authored a story about the death ofTyler Hilinski,a Washington State quarterback who died by suicide, and Maisel's bond with the Hilinski family.[8]In October 2021, Maisel published a memoir about his relationship with Max, titledI Keep Trying to Catch His Eye.[3]
References
[edit]- ^Felton, Claude."2020 Special Awards Salute: Ivan Maisel (ESPN ), Jake Wade Award".cosida.Retrieved17 November2021.
- ^McCarty, Andrew (5 November 2020)."Longtime ESPN College Football Reporter Says He's Being Let Go".The Spun.Retrieved17 November2021.
- ^abSherrington, Kevin (17 November 2021)."A memoir of 'loss, grief and love', Ivan Maisel's new book tells the story of his late son".Dallas News.Retrieved17 November2021.
- ^abAlabama Press-Register: "Developer, sports standout Maisel dies at age 82" by Paul CloosOctober 02, 2007
- ^:"Max Maisel's Body Identified"April 12. 2015,
- ^Ciavarri, Amanda."Police looking for missing RIT student".WHEC-TV.Archived fromthe originalon 27 February 2015.Retrieved17 November2021.
- ^DiVeronica, Jeff (March 30, 2015)."Father of RIT's Max Maisel shares eulogy".Democrat and Chronicle.Retrieved2024-07-17.
- ^Maisel, Ivan (22 May 2020)."A football family and a sportswriter, bound by grief".ESPN.Retrieved17 November2021.
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