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Recent Examples of sportswriter
In the 1930s, when the NBA and the NFL were still decades away from realization, baseball was America’s pre-eminent sport, and in the springtime, the country’s top sportswriters would be traveling back from covering Spring Training in Florida to their headquarters in the Northeast.
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Don Riddell, CNN Money, 10 Apr. 2025
Voters: 10 sportswriters and coaches from throughout the San Diego Section: John Maffei (San Diego Union-Tribune); Don Norcross (Union-Tribune freelance writer); Adam Paul (freelance contributor); Max Preps and 6 coaches.
—John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Apr. 2025
There are sportswriters like Manor, Halickman and the YouTuber Pini Barel, whose social media sometimes resembles an Avdija highlight reel.
—Jacob Gurvis, Sun Sentinel, 14 Apr. 2025
Whiteley and company don’t shy from the moment that Duran calls a heckling fan the f-word mid-game and several of the non-playing talking heads — sportswriters, various Fenway employees — are unflinchingly critical.
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 8 Apr. 2025
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Don Riddell, CNN Money, 10 Apr. 2025
Voters: 10 sportswriters and coaches from throughout the San Diego Section: John Maffei (San Diego Union-Tribune); Don Norcross (Union-Tribune freelance writer); Adam Paul (freelance contributor); Max Preps and 6 coaches.
—John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Apr. 2025
There are sportswriters like Manor, Halickman and the YouTuber Pini Barel, whose social media sometimes resembles an Avdija highlight reel.
—Jacob Gurvis, Sun Sentinel, 14 Apr. 2025
Whiteley and company don’t shy from the moment that Duran calls a heckling fan the f-word mid-game and several of the non-playing talking heads — sportswriters, various Fenway employees — are unflinchingly critical.
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 8 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sportswriter
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Sacha Jenkins, the hip-hop journalist, filmmaker, and historian who co-founded the seminal Nineties magazine Ego Trip, died on Friday.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
24 May 2025
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The summaries below were drafted with the help of AI tools and edited by journalists in our News division.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
24 May 2025
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They are joined by dozens of reporters writing about the effects on everyday people.—
Ian Austen,
New York Times,
17 May 2025
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Officials have not ruled out terrorism, Lt. William Hutchinson told reporters at the scene, adding that there appears to be one fatality.—
Muri Assunção,
New York Daily News,
17 May 2025
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In the film, David Strathairn plays CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow.—
Robert Lloyd,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Apr. 2025
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The piece thankfully stops short of being a hagiography of Murrow: the point is made that by stepping so far out into partisan waters as distinct from just reporting the news, the great newsman opened the door to partisan attacks on a clearly partisan media.—
Chris Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Apr. 2025
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The plaintiffs alleged that USIP staffers are not federal workers because the agency is independent of the executive branch and that DOGE's actions—from forcefully gaining access to USIP's buildings to ousting the agency's staff and replacing them with people affiliated with DOGE—violated the law.—
Sonam Sheth,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 May 2025
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The clinic was closed for the weekend, and the doctor who leads it told the AP its staffers were safe.—
Eric Tucker,
Christian Science Monitor,
18 May 2025
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Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international correspondents share snapshots capturing moments from their lives and work around the world.—
Diaa Hadid,
NPR,
14 May 2025
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Some pro-Kremlin war correspondents noted on Telegram that Russia's national emblem was displayed during the ceremony without its Orthodox crosses.—
Isabel van Brugen,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 May 2025
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The Valkyries’ mix of backups and third stringers shined in the second half, but couldn’t carry Golden State to a win.—
Nathan Canilao,
Mercury News,
7 May 2025
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Advertisement Video from the stringer service OC Hawk showed a bearded man sitting in the stopped self-driving vehicle, poking his head out and speaking to police.—
Nathan Solis,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Jan. 2025
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The former Chicago newspaperman’s script for the silent film was only 18 pages long.—
Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
16 May 2025
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McCarthy’s office had hired two newspapermen from the Washington Times-Herald to assemble the speech text for him.—
Made by History,
TIME,
9 Feb. 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 27 May. 2025.
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