sportswriter

noun sports·writ·er \ ˈspȯrts-ˌrī-tər \

|Updated on: 13 Aug 2018

Definition of sportswriter

: a person who writes about sports especially for a newspaper

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sportswriting

play \ˈspȯrts-ˌrī-tiŋ\ noun

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Recent Examples of sportswriter from the Web

Each week, Express-News sportswriters discuss the local and national sports news of the day.

— nick talbot, San Antonio Express-News, "Writers’ Roundtable: How the Spurs’ and NBA free agency is shaping up," 7 July 2018
By Sunday, editor Rob Hiaasen, 59; writer Wendi Winters, 65; editorial page editor Gerald Fischman, 61; sportswriter John McNamara, 56; and sales assistant Rebecca Smith, 34, each smiled up from the pavement.

— colin campbell, baltimoresun.com, "Before Madonnari Arts Festival, chalk artist memorializes Captial Gazette victims in Little Italy," 8 July 2018
But there’s a generally accepted history at this point, pieced together in various accounts through the years — most notably a 2012 Deadspin piece by sportswriter Alan Siegel — and endorsed by folks in White’s camp.

— brian mccollum, Detroit Free Press, "Detroit's global sports anthem: The White Stripes' 'Seven Nation Army'," 29 June 2018
Greedy club owners and complaisant sportswriters contrived a persona for him as a mash-up of Li’l Abner and Paul Bunyan, a devoted family man and humble Hall of Famer.

— edward kosner, WSJ, "‘A Season in the Sun’ Review: Those Weren’t the Days," 12 Apr. 2018
Miami Herald sportswriter Manny Navarro contributed to this report.

— barry jackson, miamiherald, "Tyler Johnson contract creating challenges, and these interesting future options for Heat," 12 July 2018
Good will hunting: Wesley Sykes wasn’t the first sportswriter to tweet a picture of Fenway Park from the press box.

— mike digiovanna, latimes.com, "Three up, three down: What's trending in MLB," 30 June 2018
The five killed were: Reporter and a columnist Wendi Winters, sales assistant Rebecca Smith, assistant editor Robert Hiaasen, editor Gerald Fischman and sportswriter John McNamara.

— NBC News, "Trump says Capital Gazette shooting 'shocked the conscience of our nation'," 29 June 2018
That shortcoming is the key hurdle to success, says Yan Qiang, a veteran sportswriter in Beijing.

— michael holtz, The Christian Science Monitor, "Soccer World Cup spurs Chinese sporting ambitions," 27 June 2018

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