Awaken Hope with Patrick Sangimino on Patrick Sangimino

Patrick Sangimino was an award-winning journalist for more than four decades at newspapers in California and throughout the Midwest before retiring in 2024. He covered the National Football League for eight seasons and eventually moved back and forth between news and sports departments as a columnist and editor.

Born in San Francisco, raised miles away in Pacifica, a blue-collar ocean town of 39,000, and educated at San Jose State University, Sangimino worked his way through college by free-lancing high school sporting events for the San Mateo Times. He got his first job as a sports editor of a one-man sports department at the Pacifica Tribune, his hometown weekly paper.

Five years later, he was covering the NFL for the Olathe Daily News, a suburb of Kansas City, on the Kansas side of the state line. He did that job for eight seasons before moving onto KMBC, Kansas City’s ABC affiliate and the top-rated station in the city. He served as the senior editor of the web site and had a national column that ran in all 64 of the Hearst-Argyle properties nationwide.

Sangimino moved to Wichita, Kansas in 2006 when his wife was offered a once-in-a-lifetime position at a Fortune 500 corporation. He became the managing editor of the Wichita Business Journal, a job he held for three years before going back to sports writing as the sports editor and columnist at the Hutchinson News, the third largest paper in the state at that time.

His wife’s job was transferred again in 2014 — this time to Omaha, Nebraska. He wrote for the Omaha World Herald before landing a job at the Lincoln Journal Star in 2018. He held that job until retiring in 2024 to return to California — Sunnyvale in the heart of the Silicon Valley — to help his siblings take away the car keys from his now 87-year-old mother.

One etched-in-stone commitment to his mother is lunch each Friday in the park before he and Kathy play Bingo at the Cupertino Community Center. His daughter Kaylin is an attorney in San Diego and lives with her husband Mitch.

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