Dan Stoneking

Danny Alan Stoneking (November 5, 1942 – January 29, 2007) was an American journalist who was sports editor of the Minneapolis Star and president of the Professional Hockey Writers' Association. Stoneking covered National Hockey League and World Hockey Association games, the Minnesota Twins, sports at University of Minnesota, and promoted high school sports. He was the Minneapolis Star sports editor from 1974 until his suspension for plagiarism in 1984.

Stoneking pushed for equal access to locker rooms for male and female sportswriters, and was an executive of the Twin Cities chapter of the Baseball Writers' Association of America and the Minnesota Associated Press Sports Editors. He graduated from Northwestern University, was a United States Army sergeant during the Vietnam War, and was editor of the Stars and Stripes. In his later career, he reported on the Minnesota North Stars while hosting radio shows on KSTP and WTCN, and taught English and mass media.