Chad Finn

Chad Finn is a sports and sports media columnist for The Boston Globe and Boston.com. He is the editor of “The Boston Globe Story of the Red Sox” and the newly released “The Boston Globe Story of the Celtics.” He joined the Globe from the Concord Monitor in New Hampshire in 2003 as a sports copy editor and page designer before moving to the writing side and taking over the sports media beat in 2009. His favorite projects have included an oral history of Larry Bird’s 60-point game and profiles of former Red Sox pitcher and broadcaster Dennis Eckersley and Maine basketball phenom Cooper Flagg for the Globe Magazine. He has had stories selected for the notables section of “The Year’s Best Sports Writing” anthologies in 2022 (a look back at “Wide World of Sports”) and 2023 (on the end of his daughter’s high school sports career). He is a Maine native who got his first big break covering the 42-1-2 national champion University of Maine hockey team as a student journalist in 1993.

University of Maine

Chad has won multiple Associated Press Sports Editors awards, including for a multimedia project on LeBron James’s time in NBA summer league in Boston. From 2020-23 he was named Favorite Sports Writer in Boston in the annual Channel Media Market and Research Poll, and was named Most Trusted in 2023.

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