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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.

Heath O'Loughlin

O'Loughlin presented alongside news presenter Jo Hall and filled-in for the weeknight sports presenter Tony Jones.

L.A. Confidentiel

L.A. Confidentiel: Les secrets de Lance Armstrong (L.A. Confidential: Lance Armstrong's Secrets) is a book by sports journalist Pierre Ballester and The Sunday Times sports correspondent David Walsh.

Nine News Melbourne

Fill-in presenters for the 6pm bulletin include news presenters Tony Jones, Jo Hall and Brett McLeod, sports presenters Clint Stanaway and Corey Norris, and weather presenters Rebecca Judd, Chloe Bugelly and Justine Mackenzie.


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1929 in radio

Myron Cope, American sports journalist, radio personality, and sports broadcaster best known for being the voice of the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Amanda Davies

Davies was born on 24 March 1980 in Manchester and she is the daughter of sports journalist and sports administrator David Davies, Amanda was educated at King Edward VI High School for Girls in Edgbaston, Birmingham.

AnnMaria De Mars

She is the mother of Ronda Rousey, an Olympic bronze medalist judoka and mixed martial arts Bantamweight world champion; and of María Burns Ortiz, a sports journalist who serves as the social media columnist for ESPN.com and as a contributor to Fox News Latino.

Ask Harriet

The premise of the series revolves around a sexist sports journalist named Jack Cody (Anthony Tyler Quinn).

Brian Widlake

Widlake is the step-father of the former cricketer, sports journalist and TV presenter Mark Nicholas.

Christopher Nicholas Smith

He later joined ESPN's Mayne Street, a web comedy series starring sports journalist Kenny Mayne.

Dan Hicken

Hicken was recognized for his sports knowledge and reputation by being selected as a voting sports journalist for the Heisman Trophy.

Flemming Nielsen

After ending his active career, Nielsen was a sports journalist for Aftenbladet, Politiken, and B.T., and wrote two books about football.

Freya North

Polly, about a teacher exchange trip between America and England, was published in 1998 and Cat, about a sports journalist covering the Tour de France, in 2000.

Gerald Mortimer

Gerald Mortimer (1937 – 30 December 2013) was an English author and sports journalist, whose career spanned over four decades.

Gordon McQueen

He became a father in 1979 to Hayley McQueen, who would become a sports journalist on Sky Sports and Manchester United's in-house TV channel MUTV.

Iain Macintosh

Iain Macintosh (born 1978) is a UK sports journalist and author who writes for the Singapore daily The New Paper.

Jagoff

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette sports journalist Dejan Kovacevic said "The true measure of any distinct language is its ability to create a word that no one else can match. And that, I always have found, is the beauty of the fairly harmless term "jagoff.

Jenny Wheeler

In 1997 Wheeler began a health supplements direct marketing company Happy Families Ltd with her partner, former talk back radio host and sports journalist Tim Bickerstaff.

Jim Parrack

For the British sports journalist and former competitive swimmer of the same name, see James Parrack

John Wilcockson

John Wilcockson is a British sports journalist and author who has covered professional cycling for over 40 years, reporting on major cycling events for NPR and the BBC World Service, and publishing articles in The New York Times, Outside, Men’s Journal and The Times, among others.

Jonathan Legard

Jonathan Legard (born July 1961 in Cardiff, Wales), is a sports journalist, best known as the lead commentator for the BBC's Formula One TV coverage in 2009 and 2010.

Kuntal Chakraborty

The Sports Journalist from Star News has interviewed Sachin Tendulkar after his milestones like 50th Test Century and 13 Thousand Test Runs and 100th international centuries.

Meindert Leerling

Previously he worked as a television director and RTV journalist for the Evangelical Broadcasting (Evangelische Omroep) and as a sports journalist for several newspapers.

Melodie Robinson

Melodie Robinson (born 25 May 1973 in New Plymouth) is a New Zealand sports journalist and presenter, and former international rugby union player for the New Zealand women's national rugby union team.

Newbury Street

Sports journalist Heywood Hale Broun told the story of proudly mentioning that his publisher had gotten him a room at "the Ritz," an honor accorded only to stars.

Pål Jacobsen

Jacobsen currently works as an assistant coach for Ham-Kam, and as a freelance sports journalist in the local newspaper Hamar Arbeiderblad.

Paul Le Guen

Later that year, sports journalist Graham Spiers published, Paul Le Guen: Enigma (ISBN 1-84596-291-5) documenting his tenure at the club.

Phil Jasner

Philip Mark "Phil" Jasner (March 24, 1942 – December 3, 2010) was an award-winning sports journalist in Philadelphia.

Randy Starkman

Randy Starkman (1960 – April 16, 2012) was a Canadian sports journalist who reported on amateur sports and athletes for the Toronto Star newspaper.

Sabahudin Vugdalić

After retiring from playing, Vugdalić became a sports journalist, working for Sarajevo-based Televizija OBN.

Serge Mesonès

After he retired from playing football, Mesonès became a sports journalist and a member of the French Communist Party.

Shelby Whitfield

In 1991, he collaborated with sports journalist and announcer Howard Cosell on a book called What's Wrong With Sports.

South Houston High School

Al Carter (1970): Sports journalist and editor; former columnist for the Houston Chronicle, Houston Post and Dallas Morning News.

Stephen Boock

Boock is the brother of sports journalist Richard Boock (biographer of Bert Sutcliffe) and award-winning novelist and screenwriter Paula Boock.

Şükrü

Şükrü Gülesin (1922–1977), Turkish football player and sports journalist

The Black Meteor

The film is based on the novel by Tom Egbers, a Dutch sports journalist, which was adapted for the screen by Kees van Beijnum.

The Trophy Room

The show is hosted by stand-up comedian Peter Helliar who poses questions to two teams headed by Sports Journalist Amanda Shalala and broadcaster Adam Spencer.

Tyler Layton

Layton's father was a radio announcer (including working as the colour analyst on Alabama Crimson Tide football radio broadcasts) and a sports journalist who encouraged her from an early age.

Valérien

Harry Valérien (1923-2012), German sports journalist and television presenter

Vernizzi

Narciso Vernizzi (1918–2005), Brazilian sports journalist and radio personality

Vugdalić

Sabahudin Vugdalić (born 1953), Bosnia and Herzegovina footballer and sports journalist

Yellow Yeiyah

British sports journalist and former swimmer James Parrack has described Yeiyah has having "great potential" and has suggested that he specialise to maximise this.