Cincinnati Bengals Broadcaster Dan Hoard ’85 to be Honored With Glickman Award at Syracuse University’s Newhouse School 

ESPN’s Sean McDonough ’84 to introduce Hoard for honor, named after pioneering sports broadcaster Marty Glickman ’39.

Dan Hoard ’85, the radio voice of the Cincinnati Bengals and University of Cincinnati football and basketball, will be honored with the Marty Glickman Award for Leadership in Sports Media during a Nov. 20 ceremony at the Newhouse School at Syracuse University.  

Dan Hoard

Sponsored by the Newhouse Sports Media Center, the Glickman Award is named after the late sports broadcasting pioneer Marty Glickman, a 1939 alumnus of the University.   

ESPN’s Sean McDonough ’84, a previous Glickman Award recipient, will introduce Hoard.  

At the ceremony, Newhouse will also announce this year’s recipient of the Beth Mowins Award in Sports Media. Created by and named after the 1990 Newhouse graduate alumna and ESPN broadcaster, the Mowins Award scholarship supports young women in sports media and communications.  

Currently the only broadcaster to serve as the play-by-play voice of a city’s NFL and college football teams, Hoard is a four-time Ohio Sportscaster of the Year winner from the National Sports Media Association. He is a six-time regional Emmy winner for his play-by-play, anchoring and reporting.  

Hoard began his broadcasting career calling minor league baseball for the Class AAA Syracuse Chiefs in 1985. He served as sports director for WTVH-TV in Syracuse and WXIX-TV in Cincinnati; called major league baseball games for the Cincinnati Reds and New York Mets, and college basketball games for CBS Sports Network and Westwood One. 

Hoard has also worked as an NFL sideline reporter for Fox Sports and hosted the Cincinnati Reds’ TV pregame and postgame shows for Fox Sports Ohio. 

About the Glickman Award 

A graduate of Syracuse University, Glickman was also an All-American football player with brief careers in professional football and basketball. His legendary broadcasting career began at radio station WHN in New York City in 1939. Glickman’s legendary career helped to establish the University’s reputation of producing successful professionals in sports media.