Education
New York University.
New York University.
Since joining Entertainment and Sports Programming Network in 1995, Paolantonio has become a staple in their NFL coverage, as he contributes to shows such as SportsCenter, NFL Live, Sunday NFL Countdown (from a game site) and Monday Night Countdown (from the Monday Night Football site). In 2004, he added studio work to his duties, replacing Suzy Kolber as the host of NFL Matchup, an X"s and O"s football show. Joining him are Merril Hoge and Ron Jaworski.
His best known work for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network was his coverage of the Terrell Owens saga with the Philadelphia Eagles during the 2004 and 2005 seasons.
Sal has also been an adjunct professor at Saint Joseph"s University in Philadelphia since 2001. In 2007, he and fellow sports journalist Reuben Frank put out The Paolantonio Report: The Most Overrated and Underrated Players, Teams, Coaches, and Moments in NFL History.
lieutenant has been the best-selling NFL book in the country (October 11, 2007) according to Amazon.com. He went on to make the provocative claim in his 2008 folk history, How Football Explains America, that the competition informed the public morality on integration and consciously developed in the mid-20th century into an almost mythic spectacle.
With its origins in the closing of the Turnerian frontier, the NFL league, rather than baseball, apparently broke down the color barrier in sports.
Prior to joining Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, he was a political reporter and Philadelphia Eagles beat reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer from 1993-1995. During that time he also served as a reporter for WPHL-television nightly news show, Inquirer News Tonight and hosted Saturday Morning Sports Page on WIP sports radio. In 1993, he published his first book, a biography of Frank L. Rizzo entitled The Last Big Manitoba in Big City America.
He graduated from the State University of New York at Oneonta in 1977 with a bachelor of arts degree in history.
He also attended New York University, where he received a master"s degree in journalism in 1978. He served aboard United States Ship Ouellet and the United States Ship Haleakala.
Paolantonio has been a resident of Haddon Township, New Jersey. His given name is Salvatore Anthony Nicholas Paolantonio.