Press Release from the LSWA
Nationally acclaimed and impactful statewide, New Orleans sportscaster Ed Daniels and longtime LSU columnist Glenn Guilbeau have been selected for the 2025 Distinguished Service Award in Sports Journalism from the Louisiana Sports Writers Association.
The duo will be inducted June 28 in the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame, LSWA president John Marcase and Hall of Fame chairman Doug Ireland announced Thursday. Daniels will be enshrined posthumously. He passed away in August.
Both Daniels and Guilbeau have been recognized repeatedly as Louisiana’s best in their professions by the National Sports Media Association. Daniels was named the state’s best sportscaster in 1997, 2014 and 2018, while Guilbeau won the NSMA’s award for sportswriting in Louisiana in 2007 and 2014.
Daniels made wide-ranging impact primarily in the greater New Orleans metro area, and also beyond, for his coverage of sports from the professional level down to high school competition. Guilbeau has long been noted for his insightful reporting and colorful commentary focused mostly on college sports, and specifically the Southeastern Conference and LSU.
The DSA honor, to be made official next summer in Natchitoches, means Daniels and Guilbeau will be among an elite 11-person Class of 2025 being inducted in the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame. They were selected from a 26-person pool of outstanding nominees for the state’s top sports journalism honor.
The Distinguished Service Award in Sports Journalism recipients are chosen by the 35-member Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame selection committee based on nominees’ professional accomplishments in local, state, regional and even national circles, with leadership in the LSWA as a beneficial factor and three decades of work in the profession as a requirement.
Distinguished Service Award winners are enshrined in the Hall of Fame along with the491 current athletes, sports journalists, coaches and administrators chosen since 1959. Just 75 leading figures in the state’s sports media have been honored with the Distinguished Service Award since its inception 42 years ago in 1982.
“For four decades, Ed Daniels and Glenn Guilbeau have chronicled the highs and lows of sports in Louisiana as well as anyone – one in broadcasting and one in print journalism,” said LSWA president Marcase.
“Ed’s impact was felt from the high school fields and gyms all the way to the highest levels of professional sports. Even though he left us way too soon, Ed’s legacy will endure throughout the New Orleans metro area and beyond.
“Glenn has been a mainstay on the LSU and SEC sports scene, providing coverage of the Tigers that is second-to-none. His awards on a state, regional and national level attest that he is one of the best beat reporters and writers in the country. (Just don’t ask him where his wallet or phone is located …),” said Marcase, a former Alexandria Town Talk colleague of Guilbeau’s.
“Both are held in the highest esteem by their colleagues and are extremely deserving of the Distinguished Service in Sports Journalism Award,” said Marcase.
Daniels and Guilbeau will be among the 2025 Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame Induction Class to be spotlighted in the annual Induction Ceremony on Saturday evening, June 28, at the Natchitoches Events Center. The Induction Ceremony culminates the 2025 Induction Celebration beginning Thursday afternoon, June 26, with a press conference followed by a public kickoff reception in the Hall of Fame museum at 800 Front Street in Natchitoches.
The Class of 2025 is headlined by a star-studded group of eight inductees from the LSHOF “competitors ballot,” headlined by West Monroe, LSU and NFL star Andrew Whitworth, pro basketball All-Stars Danny Granger and Vickie Johnson, and coaching greats Danny Broussard, Joe Scheuerman and Dale Weiner.
The LSHOF Class of 2025 also includes LSU gymnastics great and NCAA champion April Burkholder, and George “Bobby” Soileau, an NCAA boxing champion at LSU who won a state crown as a football coach at his alma mater, Sacred Heart High School in Ville Platte.
Longtime SEC and LSU administrator and publicist Herb Vincent is the 2025 recipient of the Hall’s Dave Dixon Louisiana Sports Leadership Award and will also be enshrined in the LSHOF.
