Veteran sports writer J.P. Pelzman dies at 57

Officers haven't but launched info on the reason for loss of life of sports activities author J.P. Pelzman.
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J.P. Pelzman, the sports activities author who labored for Newsday, The File, Asbury Park Press, Forbes and Rivals, has died. He was 57.

The Lynbrook police division confirmed Pelzman’s loss of life Thursday. There was no info obtainable a couple of reason behind his loss of life.

Pelzman coated many beats, together with the Jets, Mets, Rutgers, Seton Corridor and his alma mater, Hofstra.

A Lynbrook resident, Pelzman graduated from Hofstra in 1986. He labored for the Ocean County Observer after faculty earlier than becoming a member of Newsday after which The File in Hackensack.

Dave Rivera, USA Immediately Community’s Atlantic Group Regional Sports activities Editor, labored with Pelzman for a few years at The File.

“From an editor’s standpoint, J.P. was all the things you wished in a reporter,’” Rivera mentioned. “He labored so onerous every single day to seek out essentially the most attention-grabbing tales to inform, and he wrote with such ardour, typically with an enthralling wit, that made studying his tales so gratifying. He was all the time keen and desperate to cowl all the things we requested of him.”

Pelzman beloved overlaying faculty basketball. Early in his profession, he dealt with the Hofstra beat for Newsday and acquired to know its younger coach, Jay Wright, earlier than he went to Villanova. When the Wildcats performed Seton Corridor in Huge East Convention video games, Wright all the time stopped by to say whats up to him.

“J.P. was such a very good man and a professional’s professional of a sports activities author,′. It was a privilege to spend many nights with him courtside and within the press room overlaying Seton Corridor basketball,” Asbury Park sports activities author Jerry Carino tweeted.

Neil Better of Newsday tweeted: “Probably the most memorable characters I've encountered in my sports activities writing journey, J.P. was a colleague many many years in the past and a pal to the tip.”