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Recent Examples of sportswriter
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.
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Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 23 June 2025
The first time, in 1947 when Detroit jewelry store owner Maury Winston sold the team then known as the Detroit Gems to a Twin Cities group including then 24-year-old Minneapolis Star-Tribune sportswriter Sid Hartman, the sale price was $15,000.
—Jim Alexander, Oc Register, 22 June 2025
Lee explains his perspective, as a sportswriter and as a fan, that teams and leagues are taking advantage of supporters.
—Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 19 June 2025
Twenty-three years of a smug, smarmy host, and a bunch of sportswriters desperate for sound bites and attention.
—Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2025
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Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 23 June 2025
The first time, in 1947 when Detroit jewelry store owner Maury Winston sold the team then known as the Detroit Gems to a Twin Cities group including then 24-year-old Minneapolis Star-Tribune sportswriter Sid Hartman, the sale price was $15,000.
—Jim Alexander, Oc Register, 22 June 2025
Lee explains his perspective, as a sportswriter and as a fan, that teams and leagues are taking advantage of supporters.
—Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 19 June 2025
Twenty-three years of a smug, smarmy host, and a bunch of sportswriters desperate for sound bites and attention.
—Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sportswriter
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The order, signed by Judge Hernan Vera on Thursday, also prevents the LAPD from detaining or restricting the movements of journalists.—
Alexandra Koch , Bill Mears,
FOXNews.com,
11 July 2025
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Through the lens of our visual journalists, a moment in time is captured and becomes part of our history.—
The Pham
July 11,
Charlotte Observer,
11 July 2025
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Speaking to reporters on Sunday after attending the FIFA Club World Cup final, Trump was asked about a bill recently introduced by Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, which would eliminate federal capital gains tax on the sale of primary residences.—
Hugh Cameron,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 July 2025
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If your story changes every quarter, reporters will stop listening.—
Danielle Sabrina,
Forbes.com,
15 July 2025
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Of particular interest to the veteran newsman were barrels used to make Bardstown Bourbon Company's Cathedral French Oak Barrel Finish bourbon.—
Kirby Adams,
The Courier-Journal,
2 July 2025
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The Broadway play, which recounts CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow’s unflinching 1954 broadcasts about Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s Cold War witch hunts, has stirred comparisons between McCarthyism and Trumpism, and between the CBS network then and now.—
Brian Stelter,
CNN Money,
7 June 2025
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Attorney General Pam Bondi fired an additional nine DOJ staffers who worked on criminal cases against President Trump last week.—
Maria Gracia Santillana Linares,
Forbes.com,
15 July 2025
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In Florida, one nursing home lost 10 staffers and expects 30 more departures in the coming weeks.—
Amanda Castro
Hannah Parry,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 July 2025
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We're joined now by ABC's chief justice correspondent Pierre Thomas.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
13 July 2025
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Based in Washington, D.C., Brennan is also the Network's chief foreign affairs correspondent and a contributing correspondent to 60 Minutes.—
Erin Lyall,
CBS News,
12 July 2025
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Whenever the practice split up Russell Wilson’s and Jameis Winston’s top two offensive units with the third and fourth stringers, though, Daboll went with Dart and Tommy DeVito to one end zone while Kafka operated the starters and primary backups on his own at the other end.—
Pat Leonard,
New York Daily News,
28 May 2025
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The manufacturer, Fast-Stairs, welds steel angle irons onto the stringers that support the treads.—
Tim Carter,
Hartford Courant,
24 May 2025
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James served in the Army during the war, then became a newspaperman.—
Michael Barnes,
Austin American Statesman,
2 July 2025
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Throwing his cell phone out the window is exactly the action taken by Kinnick – who, like the author himself, is a former newspaperman, and who, again like the author, was reared and still lives in Spokane, WA.—
Samantha Dunn,
Oc Register,
10 June 2025
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His research experience as a sociologist had led him to the pioneering photographs of Jacob Riis, a police reporter for the New York Tribune.—
Christopher Knight,
Los Angeles Times,
5 May 2025
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An El Paso police reporter got through to Nuzum and published a story about the arrest.—
Mara Bovsun,
New York Daily News,
19 Apr. 2025
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“Sportswriter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sportswriter. Accessed 22 Jul. 2025.
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