Sal Paolantonio has been a national correspondent for ESPN since August 1995, covering the National Football League for SportsCenter, Sunday NFL Countdown, Monday Night Countdown, NFL Live and ESPN.com. Paolantonio has also contributed to ABC’s World News Tonight and Good Morning America, and he has hosted ESPN’s NFL Matchup. He is a regular contributor to 97.5 The Fanatic, ESPN’s affiliate in Philadelphia, where he hosts “The Sal Pal Football Hour.” Paolantonio was a political reporter (1985-93), as well as a beat reporter for the Philadelphia Eagles (1993-95), for the Philadelphia Inquirer. In 1994, he won the Associated Press Sports Editors Award for Reporting, and in 1995, he was named Philadelphia’s Best Sportswriter by Philadelphia Magazine. Paolantonio is the author of three books. His latest, How Football Explains America, was published in 2008. In addition to reporting for ESPN, Paolantonio was a professor in the English department at St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia from 2002 to 2008, where he taught courses in political, sports journalism and communications.
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