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A national award-winning reporter for Newsday and author of Swee'pea, the critically acclaimed book about former All-American Lloyd (Swee'pea) Daniels and other New York City playground basketball legends (Atria Books, Simon & Schuster), John A. Valenti 3rd has appeared on hundreds of television and radio shows, including NPR and Good Morning America. He had featured roles in The Legend of Swee'pea, an award-winning documentary by Benjamin May, and the Emmy Award-winning ESPN 30-for-30 episode Big Shot by Kevin Connolly -- the latter the story of how John Spano fleeced Fleet Bank to buy the NHL New York Islanders and how Valenti headed a team of Newsday reporters to uncover the truth, leading to the federal conviction of the would-be Dallas multimillionaire. Valenti has been honored nationally by the Society of the Silurians, the Associated Press and the National Headliner Award competitions and was part of a Newsday team that won the 2024 National Headliner Award for breaking news coverage of the arrest of alleged Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann. Valenti has covered Major League Baseball, the NBA, NHL, the 1994 World Cup Soccer Tournament, major college sports and breaking news events and Newsday submitted his work for Pulitzer Prize consideration at least a dozen times between 1987 and 2024. He's interviewed and covered a host of notable figures, among them: Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Billie Jean King, Mike Tyson, Mario Andretti, Wayne Gretzky, Pele, Maradona and the first two men to walk on the Moon -- Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. He was a candidate for the 1986 NASA-sponsored "Journalist in Space Project." He is a critically acclaimed poet and For Nothing Is Hidden is his debut novel.
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