The Marty Award Interview: Marv Albert at Newhouse

The “Voice of the NBA” Marv Albert ’63 came home to Syracuse University Tuesday September 16 and packed the Joyce Herganhan Auditorium for the Marty Award interview. Albert was honored in New York City this summer as the second recipient of the Newhouse School Sports Media Center’s Marty Glickman Award for Leadership in Sports Media and came to Newhouse to give students, faculty and staff a chance to meet him. In an interview with Center Director John Nicholson ’68, Albert discussed his career, starting as a child in Brooklyn calling games from a TV with the sound turned down, through his student days in Syracuse, becoming the voice of the New York Rangers and Knicks in his early twenties and eventually one of the most respected figures in sports broadcasting. He then answered questions from students on topics ranging from favorite games he has called to prospects for women in today’s sports media.