Danny Martin
UAF sports reporter
Call Danny at 907-459-7586.
Danny Martin has been a sports writer for the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner since January 2003.
His primary beat is the University of the Alaska Fairbanks hockey team and he writes a weekly column, mostly about Alaskans who are student-athletes at colleges in the Lower 49.
He came to Fairbanks after a one-year stint as the sports editor of the Arlington Times, a weekly in Arlington, Wash.
Before that, he worked for six months (June to December 2001) as an advertising account executive for Augusta Magazine in Augusta, Ga., and spent 12 years (April 1989-June 2001) as a sports reporter for the Anchorage Daily News. He began his writing career as a sports writer for The Anchorage Times (May 1984-April 1989).
He worked at the Times while attending the University of Alaska Anchorage, from which he graduated in May 1989 with a bachelor's degree in Journalism and Public Communications.
He has also done freelance work for Faceoff.com of Don Mills, Ontario; USA Today; Sports Illustrated and the Augusta Focus of Augusta, Ga.
Martin, 49, and his wife Gina have two cats, Figaro and Bella.
Recent Stories
- Patriots swimmers enjoy newfound success in the pool
- Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008
- Last October, Maria Reeves saw her North Pole High School girls swimming team end Lathrop’s 16-year vise grip on the Region VI Championship trophy.
- Lathrop looks for success with two QBs
- Friday, Sept. 5, 2008
- Head coach Pat Romans watched his Lathrop Malemutes practice on a sunny Thursday afternoon at Lathrop High School, just six days after they played one of their best football games of the season but fell one point short.
- Former West Valley skater traded to WHL's Cougars
- Friday, Sept. 5, 2008
- The Seattle Thunderbirds of the Western Hockey League traded Isak Quakenbush, a right wing and former West Valley High School skater, on Wednesday to the Prince George (British Columbia) Cougars, whose assistant coach and assistant general manager is Wade Klippenstein, a former Alaska Nanooks assistant coach and wing.
- ASAA waiver rules need some revision
- Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008
- It’s too bad that the Alaska School Activities Association had to spend two days last week in Fairbanks Superior Court to show that its transfer waiver policies need revising.
- Nikiski's Calderwood scorches Monroe
- Sunday, Aug. 31, 2008
- Monroe Catholic head coach Bobby Pace expected the obvious Saturday afternoon from the Nikiski Bulldogs — Beau Calderwood, the state’s leading rusher, would peel off many yards on the grass of Kiwanis Field.
- West Valley upends Wasilla
- Sunday, Aug. 31, 2008
- Two feet and two hands helped the West Valley High School football team prevail 10-9 over the Wasilla Warriors on Saturday night, ending a 12-game, nearly two-year losing streak for the Wolfpack.
- North Pole runs all over Eielson
- Saturday, Aug. 30, 2008
- It was hard at times to tell that the North Pole Patriots held a 33-0 lead at halftime and were on their way to a 61-12 rout of the Eielson Ravens in Friday night’s nonconference high school football game at Buck Nystrom Field on Eielson Air Force Base.
- 8-on-8: Fewer players, all the action
- Friday, Aug. 29, 2008
- Joining the Point Hope players on Barrow’s blue and gold field Saturday morning will be counterparts from Nuiqsut, Atqasuk, Wainwright, Point Lay, Anaktuvuk Pass, Kaktovik and Barrow’s Hopson Middle School.
- Wolfpack try to turn corner after losing two nail-biters
- Friday, Aug. 29, 2008
- It doesn’t show in the high school football standings, but the winless West Valley Wolfpack have improved since the beginning of the season. Particularly on defense.
- Court allows Monroe QB Nelson to keep playing
- Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008
- Alex Nelson gets to continue playing high school football this season.