Los Angeles Occasions’ longtime sports activities columnist Invoice Plaschke has been named the Los Angeles Press Membership’s 2025 Joseph M Quinn Awardee for Lifetime Achievement.
“I’m humbled and honored to obtain an award named after the nice Joe Quinn, a legendary reporter and editor who actually embraced journalism’s enduring connection to the neighborhood.
“I’ve by no means written a phrase prior to now 38 years that has not been formed and supported by the great employees on the L.A. Occasions, previous and current, and I might be perpetually grateful for his or her power, ” stated Plaschke.
Plaschke is a Los Angeles Occasions sports activities columnist since 1996 and is a panelist on the favored ESPN every day discuss present, “Across the Horn.” He was the 2024 recipient of the celebrated Purple Smith Award, broadly thought of the very best honor in sports activities journalism.
He’s a member of the Nationwide Sports activities Media Corridor of Fame, California Sports activities Corridor of Fame and has been named nationwide Sports activities Columnist of the 12 months 9 instances by the Related Press Sports activities Editors, and twice by the Society of Skilled Journalists and Nationwide Headliner Awards.
“Invoice Plaschke is a part of the material of Los Angeles and one of the revered sports activities journalists within the nation, ” stated Los Angeles Press Membership President Danny J. Bakewell, Jr.
Plaschke is the creator of six books, together with “Paradise Discovered: A Excessive Faculty Soccer Workforce’s Rise from the Ashes” and a group of his columns titled “Plaschke: Good Sports activities, Spoilsports, Foul Balls and Oddballs.”
He’s within the nationwide Large Brothers/Large Sisters Alumni Corridor of Fame and has been named Man of the 12 months by the Los Angeles Large Brothers/Large Sisters in addition to receiving a Pursuit of Justice Award from the California Girls’s Regulation Middle. Plaschke has appeared in a film (“Ali”), a dramatic HBO collection (“Luck”) and, in a crowning cultural second he nonetheless doesn’t fairly perceive, his identify could be present in a rap music “Females Welcome” by Asher Roth.
The Lifetime Achievement Award might be introduced on the 67th SoCal Journalism Awards Gala on Sunday, June 22, on the Millennium Biltmore Lodge DTLA.
Greater than 500 journalists and media executives are anticipated to attend this prestigious occasion.
For extra details about this occasion or to sponsor, promote or purchase tickets go to www.LApressclub.org or contact Govt Director Diana Ljungaeus at 310-210-1860 or e mail Diana-AT-LApressclub.org.
