Pat Caputo
- Industry: Communications or Media
- Occupation: Oakland Press Sports Columnist
- Location: Pontiac : Michigan : United States
About Me
Pat Caputo is a sports columnist for The Oakland Press. Caputo covered the Tigers from 1986-98, and the Lions from 1998-2002 for The Oakland Press before becoming a columnist. Caputo was raised in Birmingham and played baseball and football at Groves High School. His photograph playing high school sports appeared in The Oakland Press. He has won numerous writing awards, including first place in column writing from the Michigan Associated Press and the Michigan Press Association, and from the Detroit Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. He has been named among the Top Ten sports columnists in the nation by the Associated Press Sports Editors (APSE), and has won honors in four of the APSE's six national award categories. Caputo, who has resided in Oakland County since he was nine years old, currently lives in Lake Orion. Caputo has a radio show weeknights and weekends on 97.1 FM, The Ticket, which is the flagship station for the Tigers, Lions and Red Wings. He also appears regularly on FOX 2 television on "SportsWorks," and teaches sportswriting at Oakland University.
Interests
Favorite Movies
- The Graduate
- The Last Waltz
- Field of Dreams
- Lost in Translation
- On The Waterfront
- Raging Bull
- Babel
- The Great Escape
Favorite Music
- Johnny Cash
- Anything Motown - especially Marvin Gaye
- Garth Brooks
- Death Cab For Cutie
- Hank Williams Sr
- Rolling Stones
- Audio Slave
- Green Day
- Linkin Park
- Dr. Dre
- 54-40
- The Band
- Miles Davis
- Carrie Underwood
- Roxy Music
- George Strait
- The Fray
- Green Day
- Trent Reznor
- Jack Johnson.
Favorite Books
- Boys on the Bus
- Paper Lion
- The Best and the Brightest
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Ragtime
- Atonement
- A Good Walk Spoiled
- House of Sand and Fog
- When Pride Still Mattered.
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