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Jerry Izenberg has been a sportswriter and columnist at the Star-Ledger for 54 of his 65 years in the business. He has been inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame, the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Hall of Fame, and the Sports Hall of Fame of New Jersey, and he is the only sportswriter to be inducted into the New Jersey Literary Hall of Fame. He won the Associated Press' Red Smith Award for distinguished contributions to sports journalism as well as the Fleischer Award for Boxing Journalism. He is married with four children and nine grandchildren. He lives in Henderson, Nevada.