Posted on Thu, Apr. 17, 2008
Daily News boxing writer Bernard Fernandez won a first place and two thirds in the seventh annual Boxing Writers Association of America writing contest, covering the 2007 calendar year.
The awards are known as the "Barneys," in honor of the late BWAA president, Barney Nagler.
Fernandez won first place in Boxing News Story, for a story on the rift in the relationship between former heavyweight champion Joe Frazier and his daughter, Jacqui Frazier-Lyde, now a Municipal Court judge.
The thirds were in Boxing Feature (under 2,500 words), on former heavyweight-contender-turned-shoeshine boy-and-occasional-actor Seamus McDonagh, and in Boxing Event Coverage, for a story on Bernard Hopkins' easy, upset victory over Winky Wright.
The awards will be presented at the 83rd annual BWAA Awards Dinner on May 1 at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles. *
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