Senior Writer Michael Farber joined the staff of Sports Illustrated in January 1994 and now stands as one of the magazine's top journalists, covering primarily baseball, ice hockey and skiing. He is also a regular contributor to SI.com. Before coming to SI, Farber spent 15 years as a sports columnist for the Montreal Gazette, three years at the Bergen County Record, and one year at the Sun Bulletin in Binghamton, New York. While at the Gazette he won a National Newspaper award in 1982 and in 1990 he won a Canadian National Newspaper award. While a columnist at the Gazette, Farber penned "Sometimes Life Gets in the Way," a compendium of his best Gazette columns.
Farber identifies two stories as his most compelling pieces of work to date for the magazine. The first was a story on the use of Sudafed by NHL players entitled "Hockey's Little Helpers." The second was a feature on the personal problems of Kevin Stevens entitled "Life of the Party." His most memorable sports moment as a journalist came in 1988 when Canadian Ben Johnson set his controversial world record by running the 100 meters in 9.79 seconds at the Summer Olympic Games in Seoul. According to Farber, his favorite sport is "anything but auto racing" and during his free time he enjoys playing golf and watching his kids play soccer.
Born and raised in New Jersey, Farber is a 1973 graduate of Rutgers University where he was a Phi Beta Kappa. He now resides in Montreal with his wife and their two children.
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