Former ESPN Reporter Hank Goldberg Dies. Leaving South Florida Sports Radio Legacy
Former ESPN NFL reporter and longtime horse racing analyst HANK GOLDBERG died on his 82nd birthday yesterday at his home in Las Vegas. according to Todd Dewey of the LAS VEGAS REVIEW JOURNAL. death was ‘complications of a years long battle with chronic kidney disease’. Hammer’ and ‘Hammerin’ Hank’. He was the Dolphins’ radio color analyst from 1978 to 1992. Goldberg ‘learned the intricacies of sports handicapping’ from bettor and ‘The NFL Today’ contributor JIMMY ‘THE GREEK’ SNYDER Goldberg ‘used to write the syndicated Snyder column.’ which appeared in over 200 newspapers. When ESPN2 launched in 1993. Goldberg ’embarked on a 21 year run on the network. ‘. where he appeared on ESPN’s ‘NFL Countdown’ and made NFL picks. He even ment ‘analyzed Triple Crown horse racing’ on ‘SportsCenter’. He moved to Las Vegas in 2018. where he ‘appeared on ESPN’s ‘Daily Wager’ sports betting show and worked for CBS Sports HQ and SportsLine.com.’ He was ‘still working in June’ when he ‘analyzed the Belmont Stakes’ (LAS VEGAS REVIEW JOURNAL. 7/5). END OF AN ERA: ESPN’s JEREMY SCHAAP said South Florida’s sports scene…and its greatest exposure came from the NFL. but it was among the thoroughbreds where Goldberg was most comfortable and in his element. He was a savvy and committed handicapper. It was a throwback to the golden age of sport where the greatest stories could be found on the track. ESPN’s DAVID LLOYD called Goldberg ‘one of ESPN’s most colorful and enduring personalities’ (‘SportsCenter’. ESPN. 7\/3). In Ft. Lauderdale. Dave Hyde writes that Goldberg’s passing ‘won’t mean much to anyone who comes to our short lived city of the last 15 years. an era by sports standards. But anyone who ‘goes back a little further understands that an era passes with him.’ Goldberg was a ‘giant in the early days of sports radio — a loud. tough. opinionated. funny. self consuming giant who defined the medium for years. in South Florida. His name was ‘The Hammer’ and he ‘loved the name as much as he liked wielding one behind a microphone’ (South Florida SUN SENTINEL. 7/5). LAYING THE BASIS: In Miami. David Neal notes that Goldberg came to Miami as an ‘advertiser in the 1960s and worked in that business’ well into the ’90s. He ‘came out of the ‘Mad Men’ era ” and ‘helped create the modern sports radio show while at WIOD after taking over from LARRY KING in 1978.’ MARC HOCHMAN of Miami based WQAM AM said. ‘His voice was one of the building blocks of sports radio in Miami.’ Neal notes that when local television stations ‘decided that Sunday nights. especially during the football season. needed more sports. there was Goldberg on the WTVJ sports final.’ Univ. JOE ZAGACKI. who previously worked with Goldberg. said. ‘He was as big as they come in South Florida.’ Zagacki: ‘He was our local news HOWARD COSELL’ (MIAMI HERALD. 7/5).
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