December 18 – Heywood Broun, 51, sportswriter and editor in New York City since the early 1910s
He played the character "Andy" a fellow sportswriter and friend of sportswriter "Ray Barone" (Ray Romano) on the TV show Everybody Loves Raymond, is a regular guest on Late Show with David Letterman, contributor to The Daily Show and has performed on HBO.
Thanks to the persistent advocacy of former pitchers David Clyde and Gary Neibauer, as well as sportswriter Doug Gladstone, both MLB and the MLBPA announced in 2011 that all these inactive, non-vested men like Birrer and all of whom played between 1947 and 1979, would receive up to $10,000 per year.
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.
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.
Brian Windhorst, also known as "Windy" or "Scoop", (born January 29, 1978) is an American sportswriter for ESPN.com who covers the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Sportswriter Walter S. Trumbull of the The New York Sun suggested that the Michigan Aggies, Washington & Jefferson, Chicago University, and Notre Dame were the new "Big 4 of College Football" instead of the traditional grouping of Princeton, Yale, Harvard, and Penn.
Clines, a longtime sportswriter for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, had a tremendous impact on Lancaster’s formative years by encouraging his early interest in writing.
In an Esquire magazine article in 1976, the sportswriter Harry Stein published his personal "All Time All-Star Argument Starter", a list for which he chose five different ethnic baseball teams (one team composed of Irish players, one of Hispanic, etc.).
During his final year in Oakland in 1986, Kingman sent a live rat in a pink box to Sue Fornoff, a sportswriter for The Sacramento Bee.
One of the hosts was a former professional athlete and the other was a sportswriter played by Jason Alexander who was also the show's producer.
Haraway's father was a sportswriter for The Denver Post and her mother, who came from a heavily Irish Catholic background, died when she was 16 years old.
He was a sportswriter for the Denver Post, Arizona Republic and Oklahoma Journal before entering the corporate world and writing speeches for top executives at The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Control Data Corporation and Eastman Chemical Company.
He had plans to become a sportswriter, and served as the campus correspondant for The Oregonian, the director of the university’s athletic news bureau, and wrote for the school paper as well as The Register-Guard.
Score would tell Cleveland sportswriter Terry Pluto (for The Curse of Rocky Colavito) that, in 1958, after pitching and winning a few games and feeling better than he'd felt in a long time, he tore a tendon in his arm while pitching on a damp night against the Washington Senators and sat out the rest of the season.
One veteran Ohio sportswriter once rated Davidson to be the equal of Walter Eckersall, a infamous quarterback from the University of Chicago.
Scott Young who was a Canadian journalist, sportswriter, novelist and the father of musicians Neil Young and Astrid Young lived in Howth in the late 1980s.
Frederick Bushnell "Jack" Ryder (1871–1936), American sportswriter and football coach
Jason Lee Whitlock (born April 27, 1967, in Indianapolis, Indiana) is a sportswriter for ESPN, and a former columnist at the Kansas City Star, AOL Sports, and Foxsports.com, as well as a radio personality for WHB and KCSP sports stations in the Kansas City area.
For the next five years, Corbett was a sportswriter for the San Francisco Call and pitched semi-professional ball.
Legendary sportswriter Grantland Rice called Verdeur "the greatest swimmer of the first half century."
After graduating from CCNY, Thompson became a full-time sportswriter with The Philadelphia Bulletin.
Carl Peterson, nicknamed "King Carl" by sportswriter Jason Whitlock, general manager of the Kansas City Chiefs
Jane Leavy, award-winning former sportswriter and feature writer
Feinswog worked as a sportswriter for the Hannibal, Missouri Courier-Post in 1978 and was sports editor for the Raytown, Missouri, weekly group until 1981.
Millar was married to University of Missouri college student James Sidney Rollins, Jr. (1950-?), photographer and television director John Florea (1954-1957), author and sportswriter John McCallum (1961–64) and to United States Navy pilot and former Stadium HS classmate Lt. Cmdr. Charles Candoo (1964-death).
He is the second of three children born to Ethyl (née Friedman) and Washington Post sportswriter Shirley Povich.
W. O. McGeehan (November 22, 1879 - November 29, 1933) was a famous sportswriter and editor of the New York Herald Tribune.
Sportswriter Leonard Koppett affected the role of classical music critic in 1963 to tweak the song's simplistic composition: “There is little in the score of interest to a mid-20th-century audience. The harmony is traditional; no influences of atonality or polytonality can be found. In fact, it’s sort of un-tonal.”
McAlary had been a sportswriter in Boston and with the New York Post, then became a reporter for New York Newsday in 1985 before leaving for the Daily News to become a columnist.
Two books about the network, ESPN: The Uncensored Biography (2000) by former New York Times sportswriter Michael Freeman and 2011's These Guys Have All the Fun (by Washington Post writers James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales), recount allegations of sexual harassment.
The team adopted the 3–4 defense during the 1976 season, and the nickname "Orange Crush" for the team's defense was popularized early in the 1977 season by sportswriter/broadcaster Woody Paige.
Angry with that and stung by several other actions by the newspaper, including the paper allowing Chicago Sun-Times publisher David Radler to overturn endorsement decisions made by staff, the sportswriter wrote an angry letter to then-Executive Editor Paul Sassone.
In 2008, NFL Network cancelled this program and replaced it with Team Cam, which has a similar format but which also includes contributions from beat writers and bloggers.
Leavitt's last show on local Maine television was taped in 1973, but in 1978 the Maine Public Broadcasting Network asked the sportswriter to host a new show.
Ron Fimrite (January 6, 1931 – April 30, 2010) was an American humorist, historian, sportswriter and author who was best known for his writing for Sports Illustrated.
He met his wife, Russian ice dancing coach and former competitive ice dancer Natalia Dubova, when he came to one of her competitions as a sportswriter.
Legendary names like Grantland Rice, Red Smith, Fred Russell and Arthur Daley became regular visitors, calling the track the “Santa Anita of the South.”
Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty is a book written by ESPN sportswriter Buster Olney that chronicles the rise and fall of the New York Yankees' 1996-2001 dynasty against the backdrop of the franchise's loss to the Arizona Diamondbacks in Game 7 of the 2001 World Series.
The National Football Lottery is a book written by Larry Merchant, who is a sportswriter.
Bill Jauss, Bill Gleason, Ben Bentley, Joe Mooshill, Lester Munson, and Rick Telander were the usual writers discussing the sports issues of the day, and the show was a forerunner of many of the sportswriter TV shows that are much more common now (The Sports Reporters, Pardon the Interruption, Around the Horn, etc.).
Anthony "Tony" Grossi (born 1958 in Cleveland, Ohio) is a radio/TV personality, author, and former newspaper sportswriter currently working as a Cleveland Browns reporter/analyst for WKNR AM 850 in Cleveland and SportsTime Ohio, and is a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame selection committee.
It went over 450 feet to dead center of the Polo Grounds in New York, and a sportswriter said, "It would have been a home run in any other park, including Yellowstone."
WAUK also airs a good deal of locally-oriented programming from hosts Steve "The Homer" True, Jason Wilde, Bill Johnson, Drew Olson and Dan Needles.
After graduating from Northeastern University, he started at the Boston Globe as a copy boy in 1955 and was promoted to sportswriter in 1960, working for many years with other legendary Globe sportswriters such as Peter Gammons, Bob Ryan and Leigh Montville.
The 2006 season brought about guest co-hosts in the form of racing personalities like drivers (such as Tony Stewart, Mario Andretti) and journalists (such as David Hobbs, Robin Miller, Ed Hinton, and Bob Varsha).
Also in 2007, American sportswriter Rick Reilly (who described it as "quite possibly the world's dumbest sport") was also in Heinola.
Lardner was a sportswriter who moved to Chicago in 1907, where he covered the Cubs and White Sox for several city newspapers, most notably the Chicago Tribune.
During a September 17, 1990, locker room interview, then-Boston Herald sportswriter Lisa Olson was allegedly approached and sexually harassed by five semi-naked members of the New England Patriots football team, which included Mowatt, Michael Timpson and Robert Perryman.