Marc Stein to Receive Alumni Visionary Award

Marc Stein (Journalism ’91) is one of six alumni who will receive the Distinguished Alumni Award at Visions & Visionaries April 22. Mark joins 10 other alumni from the College of Communications who have won the award. Marc is the lead reporter and columnist for ESPN.com and anchors the National Basketball Association’s coverage for the world’s most popular sports website (averaging 12 million monthly visitors).

He also makes regular analyst appearances across all ESPN media platforms. His work includes SportsCenter, NBA FastBreak, ESPNEWS, Cold Pizzaand Outside the Lines; and he serves as a frequent contributor to ESPN Radio and ESPN Magazine.

Prior to joining ESPN, Marc covered the NBA for more than five years at the Dallas Morning News. Before that, he traveled as a beat writer with the Los Angeles Lakers for two seasons and the L.A. Clippers for 1½ seasons as a reporter for The Los Angeles Daily News. While at CSUF, Marc was a writer and editor for The Daily Titan for six of his eight semesters. He interned at The Washington Post in summer 1990.

Previous Visionary winners from the college are Mark Collins; Terry Giles, ’70; Peggy Hammer, ’66; Scott Montgomery, ’73; Terry Rossio, ’84; Vikki Vargas, ’81; Peggy Conlon, ’73; Jan Shawe, ’78; Michelle Ruiz, ‘88; and Barbara “Bobbi” Rice, ’82.