Jim Pinar - Class of 2007

(Escanaba)

A longtime sports broadcaster, Jim Pinar also spent 14 years as an award-winning sports information director at Northern Michigan University.   Pinar also broadcast NMU football and basketball games while serving as SID, where his publications received national recognition in six sports from 1988-2002.  Pinar was a sportscaster for WDBC, WQLQ-FM and WMxG-FM in Escanaba, WJPD in Ishpeming and WLUC-TV in Marquette.  He was a charter member of the U.P.  Sports Hall of Fame's executive council and was a committee member of the NMU Sports Hall of Fame.  He also played football at Escanaba Holy Name High School and Northland, Wis.  College and was an assistant football and basketball coach at Gladstone and Escanaba high schools for four years.