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Recent Examples of sportswriter
No one is better built than Leavy, a crafty veteran sportswriter, for between-innings repartee, wry asides, and tossed-off ideas for improving her beloved sport—and maybe even keeping its ever-looming obsolescence at bay for another decade or three.
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Mark Leibovich, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2025
The Golden State Valkyries head coach received 53 of 72 votes from a national panel of sportswriters and broadcasters, topping Atlanta’s Karl Smesko, who received 15 votes, and fellow finalists Becky Hammon and Cheryl Reeve, who received two votes each.
—Jenn Nelson, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Born on July 4, 1937, in Newark, NJ, Matzner worked as a sportswriter before turning his attention to marketing.
—Erik Pedersen, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2025
The author and sportswriter Art Chansky grew up in Newton, Massachusetts, near Boston.
—Paige Williams, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
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Mark Leibovich, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2025
The Golden State Valkyries head coach received 53 of 72 votes from a national panel of sportswriters and broadcasters, topping Atlanta’s Karl Smesko, who received 15 votes, and fellow finalists Becky Hammon and Cheryl Reeve, who received two votes each.
—Jenn Nelson, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Born on July 4, 1937, in Newark, NJ, Matzner worked as a sportswriter before turning his attention to marketing.
—Erik Pedersen, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2025
The author and sportswriter Art Chansky grew up in Newton, Massachusetts, near Boston.
—Paige Williams, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sportswriter
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Former City Councilmember Ruth Herbel and former Record journalist Phyllis Zorn are in line to receive $650,000 apiece, and another former Record journalist, Deb Gruver, will get $250,000.—
Matthew Kelly,
Kansas City Star,
12 Nov. 2025
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New Delhi provided diplomatic protection to the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), an elite Bangladeshi counterterrorism force that targeted opposition politicians, activists, and journalists.—
MUHIB RAHMAN,
Foreign Affairs,
12 Nov. 2025
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Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw told reporters after the game about the decision to honor Vesia.—
Jackson Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
8 Nov. 2025
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Guardiola, speaking to reporters before City’s 4-1 victory over Dortmund, sounded like a manager who takes Arsenal deadly seriously.—
Oliver Kay,
New York Times,
8 Nov. 2025
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See some of the commonwealth's best runners in this photo gallery from Courier Journal photojournalist Jeff Faughender.—
Leo Bertucci,
Louisville Courier Journal,
3 Nov. 2025
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Hassouna, a Palestinian photojournalist and artist, was killed alongside 10 family members in an Israeli airstrike in April.—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
23 Oct. 2025
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Past residents have included actress and socialite Kitty Carlisle Hart, Truman Capote swan Slim Keith, newsman Mike Wallace, and, more recently, former CNN president Jeffrey Zucker.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
30 Oct. 2025
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Bartleby, to be sure, often works at home as do most newsmen.—
Peter Bart,
Deadline,
23 Oct. 2025
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One spring day, Tan’s critical gaze landed on the work of freelance journalist Gil Duran, a tech-industry muckraker with a background in Democratic politics who was starting to take very seriously the right-wing political ambitions of San Francisco tech moguls.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 Oct. 2025
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One staffer said Gibb should have no involvement in the appointment of the BBC’s next director general.—
Jake Kanter,
Deadline,
11 Nov. 2025
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If a staffer tests positive for COVID-19, the facility must immediately cease all visitation in the event that the person was on the premises in the 10 days prior to the positive test.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
7 Nov. 2025
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The comment — which instantly became prime-time cable fodder — came in the middle of a meandering and misleading response to a question from Fox News correspondent Jacqui Heinrich.—
Brian Stelter,
CNN Money,
7 Nov. 2025
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Efrat Lachter is an investigative reporter and war correspondent.—
Efrat Lachter,
FOXNews.com,
7 Nov. 2025
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The third-stringer, a freshman, just suffered a concussion.—
Christopher Kamrani,
New York Times,
3 Nov. 2025
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That’s because the defense has given up more than 200 yards to a backup running back, nearly 150 to a third-stringer and three touchdowns to a rookie.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
27 Oct. 2025
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“Sportswriter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sportswriter. Accessed 2 Dec. 2025.
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