Dick Weiss is a sportswriter for the New York Daily News and previously worked for nineteen years at the Philadelphia Daily News . He is a past president of the U.S. Basketball Writers Association and the College Football Writers of America. Weiss has received the Basketball Hall of Fame's Curt Gowdy Media Award, the NIT Media Award and the Big East Media Award. He has coauthored books with Rick Pitino, John Calipari, and Dick Vitale.