Joe Blog. In 2011, his blog post on The Promise was named one of "Nearly 100 Fantastic Pieces of Journalism" by The Atlantic. The blog was nominated for a National Magazine Award. Journalism awards In 2002 and 2005, Posnanski was named the best sports columnist in America by the Associated Press Sports Editors. In all, he has been nominated 26 times for APSE Awards, and he also has won in the features and projects categories. In 2009, he won the National Headliners Award for sports column writing, and he won back-to-back National Headliners Awards in 2011 and 2012 for Online Writing. In January 2012, the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association (NSSA) named Posnanski National Sportswriter of the Year. In 2014 and 2016, he won Sports Emmy Awards as part of NBC's Olympic coverage. Posnanski has won many other awards, including the Missouri Press Association award for best sports columnist in Missouri 10 times, and he was the first recipient of the Joe McGuff journalism award, presented by the Greater Kansas City Sports Commission. In 2011, the Baseball Bloggers Alliance named Posnanski the inaugural winner of their online writer of the year award. The BBA also announced that they will rename the award "The Joe Posnanski Award." At the Blogs With Balls 4 conference, he won best sportswriter in the first Untitled Sports Media Award Project (USMAP). The National Polish-American Sports Hall of Fame held its 48th Annual Induction Banquet in September 2021, inducting Bronko Nagurski, J.R. Cielski, A.J. Pierzynski and Mike Krukow. Joe Posnanski was honored with the Tony Kubek Media Award. Miscellaneous He is on the 10-person voting panel for the Fielding Bible Awards, an alternative to the Gold Glove Award in Major League Baseball. The PosCast is a weekly podcast on the Le Batard and Friends podcast network hosted by Posnanski and is co-hosted by Michael Schur. The podcast primarily discusses baseball but meanders into other sports, subjects, drafts of random items, and prides itself in being nonsensical. The podcast has featured notable guests and co-hosts such as Linda Holmes, Ken Rosenthal, Nick Offerman, Ellen Adair, Stefan Fatsis, Brandon McCarthy, Joey Votto, and Sean Doolittle. Filmography Posnanski has appeared on several television programs and documentaries. Personal life He and his wife Margo live in Charlotte, North Carolina. They have two daughters. References External links Joe Blogs - Posnanski's Blogspot SI Archive - Posnanski's Sports Illustrated Archive Living people