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unusual facts about sports writing



Janice Kaplan

Her articles on women’s sports appeared in many popular magazines, and in his textbook On Writing Well, author William Zinsser quoted extensively from two of Kaplan’s articles as breakthrough examples of sports writing.


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Gerard Whateley

Whateley began to focus more on sports, writing regular in-depth features and gaining access to the likes of Wayne Carey, Greg Norman, Damien Oliver and Jacques Villeneuve along with covering football as a "second job" for the Sunday Herald Sun.

Mitch Berman

His Los Angeles Times Magazine profile of the world chess champions, Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov, received special mention in the first Best American Sports Writing, edited by David Halberstam and Glenn Stout.

Paul Finebaum

Finebaum's work has earned him over 250 national, regional and area sports writing awards, including his investigative stories on the recruitment of Alabama basketball player Buck Johnson.