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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.

Jim Rivera

He was first called "Jim" when he was 17, "Big Jim" when he started playing for the Chicago White Sox during the 1952 season, and then "Jungle Jim" in 1953 which was initiated by a Chicago Sun-Times sports writer.

Rogelio Borja Flores

Rogelio Borja Flores (1935 – September 8, 2009) was a Filipino sports writer.


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1981 New York Jets season

The Jets sputtered early, starting 0–3 and (combined with the previous season's 4–12 finish) fueling a quarterback controversy and altercation between quarterback Richard Todd and sports writer Steve Serby and speculation about Michaels' job.

1991 World Series

A Twin Cities sports writer wrote that on that night, "Morris could have outlasted Methuselah."

Bart Macomber

Macomber was also selected in 1916 as a second-team All-American quarterback by Eckersall and sports writer, Paul Purman, and as a first-team All-American quarterback by Michigan coach Fielding H. Yost.

Big Apple

It was first popularized in the 1920s by John J. Fitz Gerald, a sports writer for the New York Morning Telegraph.

Bill Meredith

William Stevens Meredith (1960 – Lake Worth, Florida) is an American music and sports writer, journalist, drummer, percussionist and singer.

Cathy Scott

She is the granddaughter of California artist Esther Rose and Frank Rose (a sports writer at the Two Harbors, Minnesota, newspaper in the 1920s), the niece of the late Russian Orthodox Hieromonk Father Seraphim Rose, sister of scientist and author Dr. J. Michael Scott, and twin sister of antiques expert Cordelia Mendoza.

Dan Washburn

Prior to moving to Shanghai, Washburn was a sports writer for The Times in Gainesville, Georgia.

David Emanuel Wahlberg

David Emanuel Wahlberg (September 9, 1882 – March 7, 1949) was a Swedish sports writer and editor who covered the 1912 Summer Olympics.

Duke Carlisle

"Tune in your television to the Cotton Bowl and you'll laugh yourself silly. Texas is the biggest fraud ever perpetrated on the football public," Pittsburgh sports writer Myron Cope said.

George Daley

George W. Daley (1875–1952), American newspaper editor, sports writer, and syndicated author of fictional baseball stories and poetry

Gerry McNee

While a sports writer with the Daily Star, McNee had a dispute with Celtic manager Billy McNeill.

Jerry Crasnick

Jerry Crasnick (Born May 24, 1958) is a sports writer, currently covering baseball for the sports website ESPN.com.

Joe Tait

In 2011 Tait co-authored his memoir, Joe Tait: It's Been a Real Ball with sports writer Terry Pluto.

John Perrotto

A graduate of Western Beaver High School (1981) and Geneva College (BA, 1985, English/Communications), Perrotto began his career as a sports writer for the Beaver County Times while still in college.

Keith Farnsworth

Recruited by the Sheffield Telegraph in December 1963, he later had spells with the Birmingham Post and the Sheffield Star before rejoining what was now the Sheffield Telegraph as a sports writer/sub editor in April 1966, and becoming sports editor in 1971.

Little League World Series on television

Bill Plaschke is a Los Angeles Times sports writer who also contributes to ESPN from time to time.

Matt Fulks

Fulks started his journalism career while attending Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee, as a play-by-play broadcaster on radio, a producer for WSMV-TV, sports director for WAKM radio and a sports writer with the Review-Appeal.

Nicholas F. Benton

After college he was a reporter and sports writer for the Santa Barbara News-Press.

Patriot Reign

Patriot Reign is a best-selling book by Boston Globe/New York Times sports writer Michael Holley resulting from two years he was given unprecedented access to the inner sanctums of the world champion New England Patriots football operations, as they worked to turn a season of good luck into a legitimate contender of a team.

Ruby Goldstein

In 1959, Funk & Wagnalls published his memoirs, titled Third Man In The Ring, as told to sports writer Frank Graham.

Sheffield Star

He was named Regional Sports Writer of the Year, for the third time in eight years, by the Sports Journalists' Association.

Tom Waddell

His battle against HIV/AIDS is one of the subjects of the award-winning documentary Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt With sports writer Dick Schaap, Waddell wrote an autobiography titled Gay Olympian.

William Gillette, America's Sherlock Holmes

He was an award-winning sports writer and sports editor of the Delaware State News in Dover, Delaware, before embarking on a career in Federal government human resources.