NEW YORK (AP) — Longtime New York sports writer and editor Vic Ziegel has died at 72.
He worked at the Daily News, and the newspaper said he died Friday of lung cancer at Calvary Hospital in the Bronx. He had been battling cancer since November.
Ziegel spent 25 years at the Daily News and also wrote for the New York Post in a career in which he was honored for his horse racing and boxing coverage. He was also a baseball beat writer covering the early New York Mets teams and a sports columnist late in his career.
Daily News managing editor for sports Teri Thompson called Ziegel “among the best newspapermen in American journalism” and an “inspiration to everyone he worked with.”
