Tim Dahlberg
Tim Dahlberg
Inducted into Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame
Tim Dahlberg is a national sports columnist for the Associated Press. He is the author of the Amazon.com books America's Girl and Fight Town.[7]
Career
Worked As Night Reporter
On the NFL
He worked for the Las Vegas Review-Journal in 1976, beginning as a night police reporter where he wrote about crimes that included the murder of Culinary Union leader Ed Hanley. He later worked as investigative reporter and political columnist for the state’s biggest newspaper. After joining the Las Vegas bureau of the Associated Press, Dahlberg covered the the trials of the Spilotro brothers, Wayne Newton’s libel suit against NBC,and a Culinary Union strike that paralyzed the Las Vegas Strip.[10]
He was on the scene of the Pepcon explosion, and there for the opening of the Mirage hotel.Dahlberg
soon gravitated to sports,helping the AP cover Muhammad Ali’s fight with Larry Holmes at Caesars Palace and launching a career covering the biggest sporting events in the world. He has covered 14 Olympics,more than 100 major golf championships,hundreds of championship fights, 10 Super Bowls and six World Series.[1]
Columnist For The Associated Press
His work has been in the Associated Press, MSN Canada, The Washington Post, MSN, MSN South Africa, Fox News, ABC News, The Independent,Time Magazine, Business Insider and Yahoo Singapore.
Dahlberg became one of only two national sports columnists for the AP in 2001, writing about a variety of sports for the world’s largest news organization.
His voice was recognized in numerous APSE awards and in 2005 he was given the Sigma Delta Chi award for column writing by the Society of Professional Journalist.[8]
On Social Media
He is on Twitter at https://twitter.com/timdahlberg