Education
Temple University.
Temple University.
Philosophy Jasner joined the staff of the Philadelphia Daily News in 1972. Jasner covered the 76ers and the National Basketball Association on a full-time basis from 1981 up until his death. Jasner was a past president of the Professional Basketball Writers Association and the Philadelphia College Basketball Writers Association.
Along the way, he has covered high school sports, the Philadelphia Big 5, the Eagles and the NFL, the World Football League, the North American Soccer League and what was then the Major Indoor Soccer League.
He was a proud graduate of Temple University, where he worked at The Temple News, and spent his early professional days at the Pottstown (Pa) Mercury, Montgomery Newspapers (Fort Washington, Pa), the Norristown (Pa) Times-Herald and the Trentonian. Jasner died on December 3, 2010.