NEW YORK (March 16, 2023) --- Gregg Cohen will be presented with the Mike Cohen "Good Guy" Award from the Met Basketball Writers Association at the 90th MBWA All-Met Haggerty Awards dinner scheduled Thursday, April 27, at the Sleepy Hollow Hotel & Conference Center in Tarrytown, NY.
Cohen is currently completing his 10th year on the MBWA Executive Committee. He has been a friend to the MBWA since 1996, helping to select the association’s first-ever Women’s Division III All-Met team, while he began his professional career at the CUNY Athletic Conference, where he spent over 16 non-consecutive years.
His official affiliation with the MBWA began in 2013, when he was asked to assist with the 80th annual Haggerty Awards Dinner journal, and it has been a labor of love and pride in the 10 years since. The following year, he was asked to join the MBWA board and now serves as its Communications Director. He initiated and oversaw the launch of the MBWA website at metbasketballwriters.org and is responsible for the website along with fellow members of the board.
Cohen first attended Brooklyn College, when the school played Division I athletics, and continued in the communications field after college working multiple Olympic Games, World Series and March Madness events. Over the years, Cohen also served as the first full-time sports information director in the brief Division III history of NYC College of Technology and later was an assistant at Division I Long Island University.
For the last nine years, Cohen has been the Editorial Production Manager at the Queens Chronicle, the borough’s largest local weekly newspaper. Recently, he also worked in guest services at several local sports and music venues.
A 1996 Hunter College graduate, Cohen grew up in the Sheepshead Bay section of Brooklyn and now lives in Howard Beach, Queens, with his wife Patricia and their two children
He will be presented with his award at the All-Met Haggerty dinner, the longest running, media-managed college basketball awards program in the United States.
The MBWA’s “Good Guy” Award is named in memory of Mike Cohen, former head of sports information at NBC Sports and Manhattan College, and former publicity director at Yonkers Raceway. Cohen also was a consultant to Fordham University and operated his own public relations firm prior to his untimely passing in 1988 at the age of 44. Anyone involved in college basketball is eligible for this award; the only criteria is that they --- male or female --- be a “Good Guy.”
There is no family relationship between the recipient and the award’s namesake.
For a list of the MBWA’s previous honorees:
Mike Cohen "Good Guy" Awards (year-by-year).