sportswriter
noun
sports·writ·er
ˈspȯrts-ˌrī-tər 
variants
or less commonly sports writer
or sports-writer
: a person who writes about sports especially for a newspaper
In an opening-day column for the Huntsville Times, one sportswriter beseeched readers not to let football poison friendship and provoke brawls.—
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Voters: 10 sportswriters and coaches from throughout the San Diego Section: John Maffei (San Diego Union-Tribune); Don Norcross (Union-Tribune freelance writer); Adam Paul (freelance contributor); MaxPreps and 6 coaches.
—John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Apr. 2025
According to the school district’s website, the Midgets moniker has been around 90 years and was given to a basketball team at the high school by a sportswriter at a local newspaper.
—Jeremy Gorner, Chicago Tribune, 11 Apr. 2025
In the 1930s, when the NBA and the NFL were still decades away from realization, baseball was America’s pre-eminent sport, and in the springtime, the country’s top sportswriters would be traveling back from covering Spring Training in Florida to their headquarters in the Northeast.
—Don Riddell, CNN Money, 10 Apr. 2025
Voters: 10 sportswriters and coaches from throughout the San Diego Section: John Maffei (San Diego Union-Tribune); Don Norcross (Union-Tribune freelance writer); Adam Paul (freelance contributor); Max Preps and 6 coaches.
—John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Apr. 2025
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John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Apr. 2025
According to the school district’s website, the Midgets moniker has been around 90 years and was given to a basketball team at the high school by a sportswriter at a local newspaper.
—Jeremy Gorner, Chicago Tribune, 11 Apr. 2025
In the 1930s, when the NBA and the NFL were still decades away from realization, baseball was America’s pre-eminent sport, and in the springtime, the country’s top sportswriters would be traveling back from covering Spring Training in Florida to their headquarters in the Northeast.
—Don Riddell, CNN Money, 10 Apr. 2025
Voters: 10 sportswriters and coaches from throughout the San Diego Section: John Maffei (San Diego Union-Tribune); Don Norcross (Union-Tribune freelance writer); Adam Paul (freelance contributor); Max Preps and 6 coaches.
—John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Apr. 2025
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“Sportswriter.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sportswriter. Accessed 10 May. 2025.
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sportswriter
noun
sports·writ·er
ˈspō(ə)rts-ˌrīt-ər
ˈspȯ(ə)rts-
: a person who writes about sports (as for a newspaper)
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