John Canzano is an American sports columnist, radio talk show host on Portland's 750 AM "The Game".

In his career,[3] Canzano worked at six daily newspapers including The San Jose Mercury News and The Fresno Bee.

[15][16] Canzano's investigative work and reporting about Brenda Tracy, the survivor of an alleged gang raped by four college football players, was recognized as the best sports writing in 2014 with a first place in the National Headliner Awards.

[18] In 2002, Canzano was named the nation's top investigative sports writer by the Associated Press News Executives Council[19] for his enterprise piece on Carlos Rodriguez,[20] a 21-year-old Dominican basketball star who was masquerading as a 17-year-old high school basketball player.

Canzano is a six-time Oregon Sportswriter of the Year winner (2005, 2006, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2021) as named by the National Sports Media Association (NSMA).

[22] In July 2010, Canzano married Anna Song, then weekend anchor for Portland television station KATU.

In 2009, Canzano co-founded The Bald Faced Truth Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization funding extracurricular activities for children.