Mark Mulvoy

Mark Mulvoy (born August 16, 1941) is an American sports journalist and writer. He covered sports part-time for The Boston Globe while attending Boston College, then full-time after graduating. Initially hired by Sports Illustrated to cover baseball, he became a ghostwriter for Jack Nicklaus's golf column. Reporting on ice hockey beginning with the 1967 National Hockey League expansion, Mulvoy was the first American journalist to cover ice hockey in the Soviet Union including on the 1972 Summit Series. He also published multiple books on sports, including basketball, curling, football, golf, and ice hockey.

With Mulvoy as managing editor of Sports Illustrated from 1984 to 1995, the magazine received National Magazine Awards and profits more than quadrupled. He established Sports Illustrated Kids for a younger audience, began the Golf Plus insert to cater to an older audience, implemented commemorative issues for special events, and expanded the swimsuit issue and made it into an annual special edition. He held the dual role of publisher and managing editor from 1990 to 1992, and retired after coverage of the 1996 Summer Olympics. In 2023, he received the Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award for ice hockey journalism as chosen by the Professional Hockey Writers' Association.