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
- Burtness-Adams set for bright future
- Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009
- The University of Massachusetts women’s volleyball team didn’t take long to sweep Saint Joseph’s College on Friday night. Forty-six minutes was all the host Beacons needed for a 25-8, 25-6, 25-7 win over the Monks of Standish, Maine.
- Fairbanks powerlifter brings home title from Las Vegas
- Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009
- Lou LaVarro, a 52-year-old who recently moved to Fairbanks from Florida, captured the open title and a masters honor at the RAW Powerlifting Federation World Championships in Las Vegas on Saturday and Sunday.
- CCHA play is ahead for Alaska Nanooks
- Monday, Oct. 19, 2009
- FAIRBANKS — The Alaska Nanooks have one fortune following another.
- Alaska’s Knelsen earns Goal Rush MVP honors
- Sunday, Oct. 18, 2009
- Alaska Nanooks center Dion Knelsen was the most surprised person in the Carlson Center on Saturday night.
- Sova’s power-play goal propels Alaska to Goal Rush title
- Sunday, Oct. 18, 2009
- Thanks to Joe Sova, the Alaska Nanooks got to raise the trophy in a tournament in the 49th State for the second straight weekend.
- Alaska upends Robert Morris in Goal Rush
- Saturday, Oct. 17, 2009
- The 17th-ranked and unbeaten Alaska Nanooks experienced a delight and somewhat of a dilemma on Friday night in the second annual Brice Alaska Goal Rush at the Carlson Center.
- Nanooks take hot start into Goal Rush
- Friday, Oct. 16, 2009
- The Alaska Nanooks ranked second among the 58 NCAA Division I hockey teams last season for defense, and they’re atop the rankings after the first weekend of the 2009-10 regular season.
- Robert Morris gets its season rolling at Goal Rush
- Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009
- Coming to the Brice Alaska Goal Rush means a reunion for Robert Morris head coach Derek Schooley and University of Alaska Fairbanks athletic director Forrest Karr. They each serve on the NCAA Hockey Rules Committee.
- Nanooks center Knelsen on the verge of 100 points
- Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009
- He’ll likely finish as the 28th player in the 30-year history of the program to amass 100 or more career points.
- RPI will play aggressively on Carlson Center’s big ice
- Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2009
- FAIRBANKS — Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute plays on a standard 200 feet x 85 feet ice at the Houston Field House in Troy, N.Y. However, the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference team should feel right at home on the Carlson Center’s Olympic sheet (200x100) during this weekend’s Brice Alaska Goal Rush.
Recent Photos
- Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009
- Power lifter Lou LaVarro, 52, trains Friday, Aug. 28, 2009, outside the Merdes Sports Training at Growden Memorial Park. LaVarro wants to capture the overall title next month at the RAW Powerlifting Federation World Championships in Las Vegas. "I want to show everybody that when you’re over 50 years old, that’s not old; that’s just a number," LaVarro said. "I’m going there to prove a point that you can still be a strength athlete over 50 years old and compete against the best in the world.”
