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6 unusual facts about Sporting News'


1961 American Football League All-League Players

The 1961 American Football League All-League Team was selected by AFL players and published by the Sporting News.

The Sporting News' offensive and defensive teams are shown below, followed by names of players on the squads of the Eastern and Western All-Star Team for 1961.

1974 World Football League season

Key: PC = voted on by players and coaches of the WFL; TSN = selection by The Sporting News

Álvaro Cepeda Samudio

He was also the Colombian bureau chief for Sporting News, based out of St. Lewis, and ultimately secured his position as one of his country's preeminent journalists and editors by becoming the editor-in-chief first of El Nacional and later of the 'Diario del Caribe.

James Enright

After retiring in 1964 from a refereeing career that saw him officiate the 1954 NCAA tournament Final Four and the 1948 and 1952 Olympic basketball qualifying tournaments, Enright resumed a career he had abandoned for refereeing in 1930 and covered basketball and baseball for such publications as The Sporting News and the Chicago Evening American.

Rubén Marino Navarro

That season he was voted a first team all-star and MVP of the league by The Sporting News.


Andre Miller

Miller was a national star during his senior season (1999), earning First Team All-America honors from the Associated Press, the NABC, the Sporting News, and USBWA.

Bill Mathis

One of four Titans who remained with the New York Jets to play in and win a World Championship game, Mathis led the American Football League in carries in 1961 and was selected by his peers to the Sporting News 1961 AFL All-League team.


see also

1990 Florida Gators football team

Kirk Kirkpatrick - 2nd team All-American (AP, UPI, Sporting News, Football News), 1st team All-SEC (AP, Coaches), Fergie Ferguson Award, Ray Graves Award

2006 College Football All-America Team

Justin Medlock, UCLA (Associated Press, AFCA-Coaches, FWAA-Writers, Sporting News, CBS Sports, College Football News, Scout.com)

Ernest Lanigan

During a two-year convalescene in the Adirondack Mountains, he continued his baseball stat gathering for The Sporting News, as he had during his banking career, and began inventing new statistics.

Fantasy Sports Writers Association

The current FSWA Board of Directors consists of: Pierre Becquey (ESPN, Ryan Bonini (KFFL), Scott Engel (RotoExperts), Michael Fabiano (NFL.com), Paul Forrester (Sprts Illustrated), Brandon Funston (Yahoo!), John T. Georgopoulos (Sports Grumblings), Kelly Grogan, Mike Harmon (FOX), Peter Madden (CBS), Lenny Pappano (Draft Sharks), Brad Pinkerton (The Sporting News), Peter Schoenke (RotoWire), Ron Shandler (Baseball HQ) and Brett Vandermark (RotoWorld).

Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery

Franklin Gritts, Cherokee artist and art director of the Sporting News.

Wally Gilbert

In September 1954, Roscoe McGowen in The Sporting News selected Gilbert over Billy Cox and Joe Stripp as the third baseman on his All-Time Dodgers team.