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Recent Examples of sportswriter
By the time the sportswriter Sam Smith published a book about the Bulls’ 1990-91 season, in which Jordan and the Bulls finally broke the Pistons’ stranglehold on the Eastern Conference, Jordan was one of the most famous men on the planet.
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Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 22 June 2025
Romano, 67, starred as sportswriter Ray Barone, and the characters around him were loosely based on his real family.
—Victoria Edel, People.com, 19 June 2025
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
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Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 22 June 2025
Romano, 67, starred as sportswriter Ray Barone, and the characters around him were loosely based on his real family.
—Victoria Edel, People.com, 19 June 2025
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sportswriter
Noun
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IndyStar's newsroom internships are an important tradition that benefits readers, the news industry and aspiring journalists.—
Tory Basile,
IndyStar,
16 Aug. 2025
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The creation of this content included the use of AI based on templates created, reviewed and edited by journalists in the newsroom.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
16 Aug. 2025
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This latest exchange on social media comes after a rare in-person spat when Van Orden interrupted a Spectrum TV reporter interviewing Pocan and Republican U.S. Rep. Tony Wied outside of the U.S. Capitol.—
Anna Kleiber,
jsonline.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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Dylan Sherman is a business reporter for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
7 Aug. 2025
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But that doesn’t feel as much for Clooney as for Murrow and the values for which the newsman stood, a credit to Clooney, actually, and an indication surely of just how unmoored Americans feel right now.—
Chris Jones,
New York Daily News,
4 Apr. 2025
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Strange new dude Mysterio (Jake Gyllenhaal) proves an obstacle, and Spidey is rocked with a gut-punch announcement by controversial newsman J. Jonah Jameson (J.K. Simmons) revealing his secret identity.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
25 July 2025
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Two other hospital staffers, who asked to remain unnamed, told the Tribune Thursday that the facility was slated to close.—
Lisa Schencker,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Aug. 2025
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Pierson was ultimately pushed out in January 2023, after the two women clashed, according to four former staffers.—
Monica Hunter-Hart,
Forbes.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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Jack Royston is chief royal correspondent for Newsweek, based in London.—
Jack Royston,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Aug. 2025
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Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy is a White House correspondent for USA TODAY.—
Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy,
USA Today,
14 Aug. 2025
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Cabot revealed that Cleveland isn’t playing starting receivers Jerry Jeudy and Cedric Tillman and expects Sanders to get most of his run with the team’s backups and third stringers.—
Kambui Bomani,
Forbes.com,
6 Aug. 2025
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Expect flanking with short to moderate duration in brush and timber stringer crown runs are possible, particularly under diurnal upslope and prevailing northerly winds during the heat of the burn period.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
12 July 2025
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On the night of November 4th, after a tense hour-long conversation with the newspaperman and short-story writer Damon Runyon at Lindy’s restaurant, Rothstein received a call from the Park Central Hotel.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
4 Aug. 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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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 Aug. 2025.
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