sportswriter

noun

sports·​writ·​er ˈspȯrts-ˌrī-tər How to pronounce sportswriter (audio)
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.Steve Kemper
sportswriting noun
or sports writing

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Heaton’s youth was spent growing up in tiny Bay Village, Ohio, as the daughter of Chuck Heaton, a sportswriter for The Cleveland Plain Dealer. Philip Potempa, Chicago Tribune, 13 June 2025 Eisenhower did play football at West Point and was considered a promising halfback by East Coast sportswriters. Bill Swank, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 June 2025 Real-life sportswriters, who many no longer read, expounding real-life opinions became a novelty. Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2025 Basketball is the city game, as the sportswriter Pete Axthelm called it half a century ago, and its chief narrative, for decades, was about escaping the ghetto. Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 23 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for sportswriter

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First Known Use

1907, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of sportswriter was in 1907

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“Sportswriter.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sportswriter. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.

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sportswriter

noun
sports·​writ·​er ˈspō(ə)rts-ˌrīt-ər How to pronounce sportswriter (audio)
ˈspȯ(ə)rts-
: a person who writes about sports (as for a newspaper)

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