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Regular Session, 2014
SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTI ON NO. 141
BY SENATOR LONG AND REPRESENTATI VES BROWN AND COX
COMMENDATIONS. Commends Joe Macaluso on receiving the 2014 Distinguished
Service Award in Sports Journalism and for being named to the 2014 Louisiana Sports Hall
of Fame Induction Class.
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTI ON1
To commend and congratulate Joe Macaluso for receiving the 2014 Distinguished Service2
Award in Sports Journalism and on being named to the Louisiana Sports Hall of3
Fame Induction Class.4
WHEREAS, the Distinguished Service Award in Sports Journalism is the most5
prestigious honor offered to sports media in Louisiana; and6
WHEREAS, inductees are carefully chosen after an extensive deliberation by a7
thirty-member expert panel of the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame selection committee based8
on their professional accomplishments in local, state, regional and national arenas; and9
WHEREAS, as one of Louisiana's most respected, admired and recognized outdoor10
writers, Mr. Macaluso's forty-plus year career includes extensive work covering a wide array11
of sports beats for the print media and also serving as a TV show host and correspondent on12
outdoor activities; and13
WHEREAS, Mr. Macaluso's first byline story appeared in March 1970, in the Baton14
Rouge Advocate, and he has worked steadily for the Baton Rouge State-Times and then the15
Advocate since his first publication and remains in their employ today as the "Fishing Report16
& The Wild Side" columnist; and 17
WHEREAS, Mr. Macaluso has been awarded or recognized more than seventy times18 SCR NO. 141
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as a top three finisher for his work by state, regional and national professional organizations;1
and2
WHEREAS, his most notable awards include the Associated Press national honors3
for a series, then the game story on Eddie Robinson breaking Bear Bryant's career win record4
and a series of stories on the devastating effects of Hurricane Andrew on the Atchafalaya5
Basin; and6
WHEREAS, Mr. Macaluso was a recipient of the Governor's Conservationist of the7
Year Award in the Communicator Category in 2007, received the Arthur Van Pelt Lifetime8
Achievement Award from the Louisiana Outdoor Writers Association in 2010, and was9
named to the Louisiana American-Italian Sports Hall of Fame in 2011; and10
WHEREAS, venturing into television, Mr. Macaluso conceived the idea, then was11
director and co-host for the award winning "Paradise Louisiana", a groundbreaking one-hour12
outdoors magazine TV show airing weekly on Louisiana cable systems for nearly ten years;13
and14
WHEREAS, Mr. Macaluso has also been an outdoors reporter for WBRZ-TV in15
Baton Rouge, the Louisiana contributor to the World Encyclopedia of Fishing, a16
correspondent for Sports Illustrated, and a contributing writer for Baseball America; and17
WHEREAS, Mr. Macaluso is a beloved figure among his colleagues and especially18
to his readers and the people in the Baton Rouge area and is truly deserving of this19
prestigious honor.20
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana does hereby21
recognize the numerous accomplishments and extraordinary career of Joe Macaluso and22
commends and congratulates him for receiving the 2014 Distinguished Service Award in23
Sports Journalism and on being named to the 2014 Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame Induction24
Class. 25
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to Joe26
Macaluso.27 SCR NO. 141
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The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Dawn Romero Watson.
DIGEST
Long SCR No. 141
Commends Joe Macaluso on receiving the 2014 Distinguished Service Award in Sports
Journalism and for being named to the 2014 Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame Induction Class.