Ray Didinger

Columnist. Author. Radio/TV broadcaster. Filmmaker. Playwright. Ray Didinger has done it all over five decades of covering professional sports, bringing warmth and wisdom to every role.

As a print journalist, Didinger was honored five times as Pennsylvania Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association, for columns that appeared in the Philadelphia Daily News and the Evening and Sunday Bulletin. His name was added to the writers' honor roll at the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1995, when he won the Dick McCann Award for long and distinguished coverage of pro football.

Turning from newspapers to visual storytelling, Didinger won six Emmy(R) Awards as a writer and producer for NFL Films. He has written more than a dozen books on sports, including three bestsellers: The Eagles Encyclopedia: Champions Edition (2018); One Last Read (2007), a collection of newspaper columns; and The Ultimate Book of Sports Movies (2009), co-written with his radio partner, Glen Macnow. His newest book, Look What The Kid Wrote Today, was published in October 2026 by Temple University Press.

The author is a contributing pro football analyst for 94WIP in Philadelphia and NBC Sports Philadelphia.