Fornabaio has reported for the (Bridgeport) Connecticut Post for more than a decade. Born in the Bronx, Fornabaio moved -- or, rather, his Mom and Dad moved him and his little brother, Matt -- to Connecticut when he was almost 7. It was in grammar school at Peck Place that he first landed on his career path: He found himself with a passion for the daily drama of hockey and baseball, and he loved telling those stories. When a classmate announced that he would be starting a newspaper for their fifth-grade class, Fornabaio rushed out his own daily two days later. His first stories were nothing special, but he has since improved just a little.
Fornabaio is a proud graduate of Peck Place, Hopkins School and (by the skin of his teeth) Columbia College, though he's probably prouder to still have his P.S. 83 sweatshirt from kindergarten. Along the way, he was lucky to have mentors like Eric Mueller (the adviser who pushed him to his first internship), John Roberts (who let him keep stats for the basketball team, a crucial skill later on), Tom Parr (a true leader), and legendary Columbia sports information director Bill Steinman (who handed him the fencing beat -- and oh, the stories we could tell).
Fornabaio returned home after college and got a free-lancer's gig with the Post. His first assignment: Covering the Beast of New Haven, in the same press box he used to watch from the stands at the New Haven Coliseum. But a year later, a part-time position opened up, and that's where Fornabaio found himself, covering soccer and lacrosse and, best of all, high-school hockey. A year and a half after that, he was a full-timer.
And then in 2001, the Bridgeport Sound Tigers joined the AHL, playing out of the brand-new Arena at Harbor Yard. Fornabaio became the beat writer and has been covering the team ever since. His Soundin' Off blog nominally covers the Sound Tigers but sometimes veers off in some weird directions.
When not tied up with (or obsessing over) hockey, Fornabaio enjoys reading non-fiction, watching good television, listening to music (particularly old stuff), following Major League Baseball, and hanging out with his family.
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