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John Canzano is an American sports columnist, talk radio host on Portland's KXTG. The show is also syndicated in Eugene, Medford, Roseburg and Klamath Falls, Oregon. He now writes his column at JohnCanzano.com and hosts a daily radio show called The Bald-Faced Truth. From 2002 to 2022, he was the lead sports columnist at The Oregonian and a sports commentator on KGW-TV, Portland's NBC affiliate.
Canzano was hired as lead sports columnist at The Oregonian in 2002."Writer from San Jose to join The Oregonian" (November 16, 2002). The Oregonian, Staff Reports, p. D2. He also appears on KGW-TV, where he offers commentary and analysis on sports. Canzano also hosts a radio show called "The Bald-Faced Truth" on Portland's KXTG. The radio show airs weekdays from 3-6 p.m. in the Portland metro area. The show is also syndicated in Eugene, Oregon, on Fox Sports Eugene (95.7-FM and 1050-AM), KDSO (107.9 FM and 1300 AM) in Medford, Oregon, and in Klamath Falls, Oregon, on KLAD-FM (104.3-FM and 960-AM).
He worked as the NFL and Major League Baseball columnist at the San Jose Mercury News and is a member of the Baseball Writers' Association of America. He holds a Baseball Hall of Fame Vote and is a voter for the Heisman Trophy. Canzano's work has also appeared in GQ magazine and Sporting News.
Canzano left The Oregonian in March 2022, after 20 years with the newspaper to start his own writing endeavor at JohnCanzano.com. It is the No. 1-ranked sports-related Substack. In August 2022, he launched a college football podcast with Jon Wilner of The San Jose Mercury News called "Canzano & Wilner: The Podcast."
In 2010 "The Oregonian," May 3, 2010 and again in 2015, the Society of Professional Journalists named Canzano the National Sports Columnist of the Year. The Detroit Free Press, April 2, 2009, p. B2
The Press Club of Atlantic City recognized Canzano with the National Headliner Award national sportswriter of the year in 2004, 2010 and 2014. The Oregonian, Staff Reports, April 14, 2015 Canzano's investigative work and reporting about Brenda Tracy, the survivor of an alleged gang raped by four college football players, was recognized as the best sports writing in 2014 with a first place in the National Headliner Awards.
In 2013, Canzano won first place in Special Topic Column Writing in the Best of the West contest for his portfolio of columns that included a column on a soldier who died in action in Afghanistan and Canzano's own experience coaching a girls fourth-grade volleyball team with a player who has Down Syndrome.
In 2002, Canzano was named the nation's top investigative sports writer by the Associated Press News Executives Council The Fresno Bee, Staff Reports, June 30, 2002, p. B1 for his enterprise piece on Carlos Rodriguez, The Fresno Bee, Staff Reports, June 3, 2001, p. A1 a 21-year-old Dominican basketball star who was masquerading as a 17-year-old high school basketball player.
Canzano is a six-time Oregon Sportswriter of the Year winner (2005, 2006, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2021) as named by the National Sports Media Association (NSMA). In 2016, the NSMA named Canzano the "Broadcaster of the Year" for the state of Oregon.
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