Bob Halloran is the Friday and Saturday nights news anchor and sports anchor for WCVB Channel 5, an ABC affiliate located in the Boston, Massachusetts media market

Media market

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Bob is the author of Irish Thunder: The Hard Life and Times of Micky Ward, a boxing biography on "Irish " Micky Ward

Micky Ward

Micky Ward , nicknamed Irish, is a retired American junior welterweight professional boxer and a former WBU champion from Lowell, Massachusetts...

, published in 2007 by Lyons Press. Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures

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 has retained Bob Halloran as a technical consultant for the producers of the upcoming film The Fighter starring Mark Wahlberg

Mark Wahlberg

Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg is an American actor, film and television producer, and former rapper. He was known as Marky Mark in his earlier years, and became famous for his 1991 debut as a musician with the band Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch. He was named No. 1 on VH1's 40 Hottest Hotties of...

 as Micky Ward and Christian Bale as Micky's brother Dicky Eklund.

In 2004, Halloran wrote Destiny Derailed, a book on the collapse of the Boston Red Sox

Boston Red Sox

The Boston Red Sox are a professional baseball team based in Boston, Massachusetts, and a member of Major League Baseball’s American League Eastern Division. Founded in as one of the American League's eight charter franchises, the Red Sox's home ballpark has been Fenway Park since . The "Red Sox"...

 2003 playoff run. His new book, "Breakdown: The Story of Gang Warfare, High School Football, and the Coach who Policed the Streets" was due out August 4, 2010.

Halloran is an adjunct faculty member teaching news journalism courses in the communications department at Curry College

Curry College

Curry College is a private liberal arts-based institution in Milton, Massachusetts that started as the School of Elocution in 1879.-History:...

 in Milton, Massachusetts

Milton, Massachusetts

Milton is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States and part of the Greater Boston area. The population was 27,003 at the 2010 census. Milton is the birthplace of former U.S. President George H. W. Bush and architect Buckminster Fuller. Milton also has the highest percentage of...

. He has also been a regular contributor as a sports columnist for the Boston Metro

Metro International

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Halloran has worked as an anchor for ESPNews

ESPNEWS

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, writer for ESPN.com

ESPN.com

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, a sports reporter for WFXT

WFXT

WFXT is a television station owned and operated by the News Corporation-owned Fox Broadcasting Company, located in Boston, Massachusetts. The station's studio and office facility is in Dedham, Massachusetts, and its transmitter is located in Needham, Massachusetts...

 Fox 25 News in Boston and a co-host of a sports talk radio show for 890 ESPN

WAMG

WAMG is a radio station in the Boston market licensed to Dedham, Massachusetts. It is owned by Gois Broadcasting. It broadcasts in Spanish, & plays Bachata, Merengue, Salsa and Pop music....

 in Boston. A native of New Jersey

New Jersey

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, he is a graduate of Washington and Lee University

Washington and Lee University

Washington and Lee University is a private liberal arts college in Lexington, Virginia, United States.The classical school from which Washington and Lee descended was established in 1749 as Augusta Academy, about north of its present location. In 1776 it was renamed Liberty Hall in a burst of...

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