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
- Wolfpack seniors turn in big efforts on opening day of meet
- Saturday, May 17, 2008
- Kayla Weber was reluctant at the start of the track and field season, as the West Valley High School senior didn’t want to throw the discus.
- Lathrop right at home in Region VI meet
- Friday, May 16, 2008
- There are some advantages to playing host to Region VI Track and Field Championships, which Lathrop will be doing today and Saturday for the first time.
- Ferguson tapped as UAF hockey coach
- Thursday, May 15, 2008
- The University of Alaska Fairbanks had to only look in the Patty Center to find its new head hockey coach.
- Lathrop grad in high gear with NASCAR
- Thursday, May 15, 2008
- A few years ago, Michelle Taylor didn’t know a restrictor plate race from a dinner plate race.
- New Alaska hockey head coach to be named Thursday
- Wednesday, May 14, 2008
- The University of Alaska Fairbanks athletic department has scheduled a press conference at 8:30 this morning in the Nanook Lounge of the Patty Center to announce its new head hockey coach.
- Warm weather allows athletes to prepare for big meets ahead
- Sunday, May 11, 2008
- It seemed fitting that the last all-schools track and field meet of the regular season occurred at Lathrop High School on a 65-degree, sunny and windless Saturday. It was a stark contrast from three weeks ago, when the first meet took place at West Valley on a 30-degree, snowy and windy Friday afternoon.
- Eielson’s King finds triple jump just comes naturally
- Saturday, May 10, 2008
- Charles King was surprised by his first-place finish in the boys triple jump Friday afternoon in the all-schools track and field meet at Lathrop High School.
- Patrick states his case for Nanooks’ hockey job
- Friday, May 9, 2008
- The application process for the Alaska Nanooks head hockey coach position probably made Kevin Patrick — if he wasn’t already — a believer in second chances.
- Ferguson believes he’s the right man to lead his alma mater
- Thursday, May 8, 2008
- Dallas Ferguson said he thought the time was right to apply to be next head hockey coach of his alma mater.
- Nanooks add Yaremchuk
- Wednesday, May 7, 2008
- Nik Yaremchuk became the 13th player to join with the Alaska Nanooks for the upcoming season, signing a National Letter of Intent on Tuesday with the Central Collegiate Hockey Association program.