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unusual facts about sports journalism



Artur Dubravčić

After retiring from football he worked as a football referee, sports journalist for Sportske novosti and correspondent for Politika, and a football official.

Best Jockey ESPY Award

Between 1994 and 2004, the award voting panel comprised variously fans; sportswriters and broadcasters, sports executives, and retired sportspersons, termed collectively experts; and ESPN personalities, but balloting thereafter has been exclusively by fans over the Internet from amongst choices selected by the ESPN Select Nominating Committee.

Best NBA Player ESPY Award

Between 1993 and 2004, the award voting panel comprised variously fans; sportswriters and broadcasters, sports executives, and retired sportspersons, termed collectively experts; and retired sportspersons, but balloting thereafter has been exclusively by fans over the Internet from amongst choices selected by the ESPN Select Nominating Committee.

J. Elliott Burch

A graduate of Lawrenceville School, Yale University and the University of Kentucky, Elliott Burch worked as a sports writer for The Racing Form before going to work for his father in 1955 at Isabel Dodge Sloane's Brookmeade Stable.

Jean Giambrone

Virginia "Jean" Giambrone (May 6, 1921 – January 21, 2013) was an American sports writer, who became the first woman to be awarded full press credentials at the Masters Tournament in Augusta, Georgia.

Levels of the Game

Robert Lipsyte of The New York Times, in his review of the book, wrote that it "may be the high point of American sports journalism".

Ulrike von der Groeben

Ulrike von der Groeben, Ulrike Elfes (born 25 March 1957 in Mönchengladbach) is a German television sport journalist.


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Bernard Whimpress

He has taught courses in sports, American and world history at Flinders University; and Aboriginal history and sports journalism at the University of South Australia.

W. C. Heinz

In 2008 the Associated Press Sports Editors posthumously awarded him the Red Smith Award for his contributions to sports journalism.