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Veteran shot writer and erstwhile Review-Journal newsman Don Banks was posthumously honored with the Bill Nunn Jr. Award arsenic portion of the Hall of Fame ceremonies successful Canton, Ohio, this weekend.
Banks was the 2020 winner, though the ceremonial was delayed a twelvemonth due to the fact that the lawsuit was postponed past twelvemonth by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The honor, known until past twelvemonth arsenic the Dick McCann Award, is fixed by the Professional Football Writers of America to a newsman who has made a distinguished publication to the crippled done their work.
His lad Micah accepted the grant connected behalf of Banks on with his stepmother, Don’s woman Alissa.
“We were honored to person the grant for Don,” Micah Banks told the Review-Journal connected Sunday night. “My begetter spent his vocation striving for his ain reporting and penning to beryllium Hall of Fame worthy. Now, though helium isn’t present to unrecorded it, I americium blessed to accidental Don Banks is simply a Hall of Famer.
“He wanted to ever bash his champion enactment and treated the radical astir him similar a Hall of Famer does. It was an astonishing play and my acknowledgment spell retired to the Pro Football Hall of Fame for each they did for us.”
Banks had an exemplary vocation that spanned astir 4 decades and included stints astatine Sports Illustrated, The Athletic, the St. Petersburg Times, Minneapolis Star Tribune, St. Paul (Minnesota) Pioneer Press, NFL.com, Bleacher Report and Patriots.com.
He was the 52nd idiosyncratic to person the award. Bob Glauber of Newsday was the 2021 recipient.
Banks died successful Canton soon aft attending Hall of Fame ceremonies arsenic portion of his archetypal assignments for the Review-Journal successful August 2019.
“It was tragic that Don passed distant successful Canton, but poetic that helium volition beryllium eternalized there,” Micah Banks said.
Contact Adam Hill astatine ahill@reviewjournal.com. Follow @AdamHillLVRJ connected Twitter.
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