Rose Bowl Hall of Fame
2016 Inductee
Art Spander is an award-winning American sports writer who has attended 63 consecutive Rose Bowl Games and covered the last 53 as a journalist. Spander began his career at United Press International in Los Angeles in 1960. In 1963, he began covering sports full time in 1963 for the Santa Monica Outlook as the beat writer for the Los Angeles Rams and Los Angeles Dodgers. In 1965 he moved to the San Francisco Chronicle, where he covered golf, football, baseball and basketball. Spander became the lead sports columnist for the San Francisco Examiner in 1979, where he still has a column to this day.
In addition to his newspaper/online writing work, Spander is a frequent commentator on sports talk radio and contributor to various sports magazines. Born in Los Angeles, Spander is a graduate of Dorsey High School and attended the University of California, Los Angeles.
