Maury Allen

After high school, he attended City College of New York where he majored in journalism and played for the football team.

The show was broadcast live from Mickey Mantle's Restaurant, near Central Park in New York City.

Allen was a contributor to a talk show hosted by Dave Cooperman and Bill Liederman called The Sports Buzz which was broadcast originally by WFAS-FM (2003-2004) in Westchester and then WCTC (2005-2007) in Central Jersey.

Lori Rubinson from season 1 of ESPN's Dream Job and now a contributor on WFAN replaced Liederman.

Allen was interviewed on numerous occasions in documentary films, such as Toots (2006), Mantle (2006), City Dump: The Story of the 1951 CCNY Basketball Scandal (1998), and Howard Cosell: Telling It Like It Is (1999).

Allen completed work on a book entitled "Dixie Walker of the Dodgers", a right fielder for the Yankees, White Sox, and Brooklyn Dodgers, and controversial figure in baseball in the 1940s for his stance against racial integration in Major League Baseball, which was released in 2010.

[3] Allen was granted a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Society of Silurians, one of the oldest journalistic organizations in existence.

On November 9, 2011, he was posthumously awarded the Townsend Harris Medal by the Alumni Association of City College of New York.