Awards
2019, MDDC, team coverage on youth and high school football and the impact of concussions, The Washington Times.
2010 MDDC, 3rd Place, Best Online Blog or Commentary
2008 Maryland-Delaware-D.C. Press Association, First-Place Sports Feature
2002 Maryland-Delaware-D.C. Press Association, First-place Sports Feature, Division D
1999 Maryland-Delaware-D.C. Press Association, First-place Sports Story, Division D
1998 Maryland-Delaware-D.C. Press Association, Second-place Sports Column, Division D
1997 Suburban Newspapers of America, Second-place, Best Sports Writing
1996 Suburban Newspapers of America, member of Best Sports Section staff
1985 Virginia Press Association, Sports Feature Writing
1983 Atlantic Collegiate Baseball League (ACBL) Media Award, as an intern with The Brooklyn (NY) Paper
Bio
Photo by Phil Kushin
Danube River, Budapest
David Driver is a native of Harrisonburg, Virginia, and played baseball at Turner Ashby High and Eastern Mennonite College (now University). He graduated from EMC in 1985 with a degree in English and a minor in journalism. He lived in the Washington, D.C. area for nearly 25 years and was the first sports editor of the daily Baltimore Examiner and for nearly 10 years was also the sports editor of Laurel (Md.) Leader, now part of the Baltimore Sun Media Group. He wrote two books on sports in 2022, and in 2023 began living in Poland with his wife to work with Mennonite Central Committee dealing with humanitarian issues in Ukraine. He covered the Nationals in the World Series year of 2019 for The Washington Times and covered the team for five years for The Sports Exchange.
Driver has also provided unique content for several Division I and III athletic and main university websites, including George Mason University, the University of Mary Washington, George Washington University, Towson University, Northeastern, Goucher College, Gallaudet, and Coastal Carolina. For two academic years, he was a special correspondent for the athletic website at Longwood University in Virginia. Driver has also contributed to the Boston Globe, Washington Post, Washington Times, Baltimore Sun, Philadelphia Daily News, The Oregonian, Sacramento Bee, the Lakeland (FL) Ledger, Austin (TX) American-Statesman, and many daily and weekly papers throughout North America, as well as www.milb.com and Baseball America.
He was also a contributor to Terrapin Times, which covers the University of Maryland, and he has also contributed to the website of the North Carolina-based Big South Conference. In the past, he has run websites that covered the Washington Wizards, VCU basketball, and Liberty University athletics, and ran a sports blog that was picked up by the Baltimore Sun.
Driver and his family lived for three years in Hungary and he has done nearly 100 stories on American basketball players in Europe for magazines, newspapers, and websites. He also covered boxing, volleyball, wrestling, and hockey championship events while living in Europe.