The former ESPN personality is one of the network's college basketball "bracketologists"
Howie Schwab’s heart does not pump blood.
Instead, the 57-year-old Long Island native has St. John’s athletics coursing through his veins.
Schwab, who rose to fame as ESPN’s resident sports information expert for nearly 30 years, graduated from St. John’s in 1982 with a degree in athletic administration, long before the days of dorm halls and the D’Angelo Center. His fondest memories of Queens do not sprout from idling around campus, but emerge from the frenzied nights working for the Torch and other student-run media outlets, such as WSJU, the campus radio station.