During a 40-year journalism career, Hofmann has covered every major Wisconsin sport as well as numerous national and international events ranging from the Olympics and the Super Bowl to the Final Four, the World Series and the US Open golf tournament. He was a Green Bay Packers and Milwaukee Bucks beat reporter before becoming a columnist for the Milwaukee Sentinel and later the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. A member of the Milwaukee Press Club Hall of Fame, he was named one of the nation’s top ten sports columnists in 1998, and he has won a number of other state and national writing awards including one for a series filed from Saudi Arabia leading up to Desert Storm.