Sportscaster Dan Hoard ’85 to Receive the Marty Glickman Award for Leadership in Sports Media. 

SYRACUSE, N.Y. –– The Newhouse Sports Media Center announced on Wednesday, Oct. 23, that Dan Hoard ’85 is the ninth recipient of the Marty Glickman Award for Leadership in Sports Media. 

The S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications will present the Glickman Award on Wednesday, Nov. 20, in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium (Room 140 Newhouse 3). The reception will start at 5 p.m., and the program will begin at 6 p.m. The event is open to all Syracuse University students, faculty, staff and alumni. 

Named for sportscasting pioneer and 1939 Syracuse University graduate Marty Glickman, the award recognizes individuals for their leadership in sports media. 

Previous winners include Bob Costas ’74, Marv Albert ’63, Beth Mowins G’90, Sean McDonough ’84, Mike Tirico ’88, Ian Eagle ’90, Sandy Montag ’85, and Dick Stockton ’64. McDonough, one of Hoard’s good friends, will present the award to him. 

Hoard said receiving the Glickman Award is an honor of a lifetime. 

“Everything that I’ve been fortunate enough to experience in this business is because of the people that I met at Syracuse and the education that I received there,” Hoard said. 

Syracuse professor Olivia Stomski, the Director of the Newhouse Sports Media Center, said this award is about more than someone’s success in sports broadcasting. 

“The Marty Glickman Award celebrates leadership in sports media, and Dan’s career and mentorship of others in the industry are why we are so proud to celebrate him,” Stomski said. 

The Voice of the Orange and adjunct professor, Matt Park, said the previous Glickman Award winners selected a first-class representative of the Newhouse School to join their ranks. 

“Not only is Dan among the most talented and creative people I have ever met, he’s been a tremendous example and mentor for generations of students and alumni that have benefitted from his kindness and generosity,” Park said. 

Hoard graduated from Newhouse in 1985. He began his broadcasting career as the radio voice of the Triple-A Syracuse Chiefs baseball team. He transitioned to television and became the sports director for WTVH-TV in Syracuse and later for WXIX-TV in Cincinnati. 

Throughout his career, Hoard has called multiple sports. He called Major League Baseball games for the Cincinnati Reds and the New York Mets, college basketball games for CBS Sports Network and Westwood One, and worked as an NFL sideline reporter for Fox Sports. Hoard also hosted the Cincinnati Reds’ TV pregame and postgame shows for Fox Sports Ohio. 

Since 2000, Hoard has been the radio voice of the University of Cincinnati Bearcats for football and men’s basketball. In 2011, he became the radio voice of the Cincinnati Bengals. Hoard got the opportunity to broadcast Super Bowl LVI when the Bengals faced the Los Angeles Rams. 

Hoard has been named the Ohio Sportscaster of the Year four times (2014, 2017, 2019, and 2020) by the National Sports Media Association (NSMA). He has won six regional Emmy awards for his play-by-play, anchoring, and reporting. 

The Chautauqua Sports Hall of Fame in Jamestown, New York, inducted Hoard in 2016. The University of Cincinnati inducted him into the James P. Kelly Athletics Hall of Fame in 2019. 

Dan Hoard (right) is having a conversation with Scott Satterfield (left) on Dec. 5, 2022, when Satterfield was named the 43rd head coach of the University of Cincinnati Bearcats football team. Photo credit: University of Cincinnati.

For people who enjoy trivia, the Minor League Baseball broadcaster in the “Dancin’ Homer” episode of The Simpsons is Dan Hoard. Ken Levine wrote the episode. Levine was Hoard’s broadcasting partner with the Syracuse Chiefs.