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By Sam Canfield, Bangor Day by day Information Workers Bangor Day by day Information sports activities reporter Larry Mahoney has gained the Nationwide Sports activities Media Affiliation Maine Sportswriter of the Yr award for the sixth time. Mahoney, who additionally gained the award in 1981, 1982, 2000, 2003 and 2005, has served BDN readers for greater than half a century, starting his profession as a freshman on the College of Maine 51 years in the past.
By Sam Canfield, Bangor Day by day Information Workers
Bangor Day by day Information sports activities reporter Larry Mahoney has gained the Nationwide Sports activities Media Affiliation’s Maine Sportswriter of the Yr award for the sixth time.
Mahoney, who additionally gained the award in 1981, 1982, 2000, 2003 and 2005, has served BDN readers for greater than half a century, starting his profession as a freshman on the College of Maine 51 years in the past.
“It is particular to be chosen by your friends like that, it truly is,” Mahoney mentioned. “I am simply somebody who labored a job that was an fulfilling profession. I am actually fortunate.”
Beginning as a clerk on the Bangor Day by day Information answering calls and writing recaps of native highschool sporting occasions, Mahoney turned a full-time author after school and has remained with BDN ever since.
Mahoney, 69, additionally served as a radio commentator for College of Maine hockey video games for almost 20 years, most lately alongside sports activities reporter Jon Shields. Shields gained the NSMA’s Maine Sportscaster of the Yr award on Tuesday.
“You meet so many fantastic folks — simply actually good human beings — on this job, you actually do,” Mahoney mentioned. “I sit up for coming to work daily. The folks you cowl are often very useful and I have been blessed to work with some nice writers. It is a close-knit group.”
Born in California, Mahoney was raised in a sporting household with 5 youthful siblings. His father’s Air Pressure profession took Mahoney to Bangor, UK when Larry was in ninth grade, and Larry would graduate from Bangor Excessive as captain of the Rams’ soccer and baseball groups.
Larry additionally met his spouse, Sally, at Bangor Excessive and they’d meet after commencement. Larry and Sally have been married for 43 years and have two sons, Mike, 43, and Andrew, 39.
Mahoney’s equal love for his household, Bangor and the sports activities press has saved him with the BDN all these years, and he says he has no plans to retire anytime quickly.
“Every single day – each sport – is a brand new journey. Simply whenever you assume you have seen all of it, you by no means know what is going on to occur. That retains it recent,” Mahoney mentioned. “It is not simple, however it’s by no means boring. This job saved me younger.”
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