He appears on broadcasts of Brooklyn Nets basketball games as a studio analyst on the YES Network[5] He also worked briefly for The Athletic as a senior writer before taking a full-time position at ESPN.
[6] Isola received an APSE sports writing award in 1998 and was voted New York Sportswriter of the Year in 2015.
[7] Isola is a graduate of the University of Maryland, College Park, where he was a walk-on member of the men's soccer team, as well as a brother of the Eta chapter of Phi Sigma Kappa.
They reside in Upper Montclair, N.J. Tonja was inducted into the Manhattan College Hall of Fame for track & field.
He has a son, Liam, who attended Northwestern, and a daughter, Gabby, who played for the Villanova Wildcats Women’s Soccer Team.