Dan Rafael

In April 2020, ESPN parted ways between themselves and Rafael, after a fifteen-year collaboration.

In January 2016, ESPN announced Rafael had been signed to a new multi-year agreement.

In 2013 Rafael was awarded the Nat Fleischer Award for Excellence in Boxing Journalism from the Boxing Writers Association of America.

In September 2004, ESPN began pursuing Rafael, desiring to strengthen its boxing coverage. He began with ESPN.com in March 2005. He writes in-depth coverage pieces, and his specialty is his weekly compilation of rankings.

The Gannett newspaper empire (which owned the Binghamton newspaper) fostered promising writers by detailing them to Virginia for four months and thoroughly grounding them in the newspaper business, working at USA Today. Rafael began his course in August 1998. He worked covering major-league baseball. When baseball season ended, the newspaper's principal boxing reporter (Jon Saraceno) was moving up, so Rafael was asked to cover boxing.

Rafael's temporary duty at USA Today ended in December 1998, and he returned to Binghamton. In January 2000, he was asked to return to USA Today on a permanent basis, as a boxing writer.

Dan Rafael (born August 25, 1970) is an American sportswriter.