sportswriter
noun
sports·writ·er
ˈspȯrts-ˌrī-tər 
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.—
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Steve KemperExamples of sportswriter in a Sentence
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Bill is a great sportswriter and a not-so-great prognosticator.
—Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2024
According to Richard Dietsch, a sportswriter at The Athletic, that's more than any World Series game last year, any NBA Finals game last year, and every Daytona 500 since 2013.
—Rob Wile, NBC News, 6 Apr. 2024
Sounds like Bonnell — the award-winning sportswriter who covered the Hornets from their inaugural season in 1988-89 through 2020-21.
—Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 5 Apr. 2024
Yet a reasonable case can be made that two essential manners in American prose—the laconic, tight-lipped style (Hemingway began as a newspaperman and sportswriter, too) and the loquacious high irony that A. J. Liebling passed on to Tom Wolfe—began in the baseball stories of the New York papers.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
The sportswriters were there to write, in ways that the other people on the paper weren’t.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
For decades, the weekly print publication was considered a benchmark for sports journalism, scooping up national magazine awards and influencing several generations of sportswriters.
—Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 18 Mar. 2024
But projection systems and sportswriter guesses don’t mean much.
—Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 22 Feb. 2024
Like a sportswriter becoming a major league pitcher, or an obit writer opening a mortuary.
—Sam Roberts, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2024
Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2024
According to Richard Dietsch, a sportswriter at The Athletic, that's more than any World Series game last year, any NBA Finals game last year, and every Daytona 500 since 2013.
—Rob Wile, NBC News, 6 Apr. 2024
Sounds like Bonnell — the award-winning sportswriter who covered the Hornets from their inaugural season in 1988-89 through 2020-21.
—Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 5 Apr. 2024
Yet a reasonable case can be made that two essential manners in American prose—the laconic, tight-lipped style (Hemingway began as a newspaperman and sportswriter, too) and the loquacious high irony that A. J. Liebling passed on to Tom Wolfe—began in the baseball stories of the New York papers.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
The sportswriters were there to write, in ways that the other people on the paper weren’t.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
For decades, the weekly print publication was considered a benchmark for sports journalism, scooping up national magazine awards and influencing several generations of sportswriters.
—Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 18 Mar. 2024
But projection systems and sportswriter guesses don’t mean much.
—Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 22 Feb. 2024
Like a sportswriter becoming a major league pitcher, or an obit writer opening a mortuary.
—Sam Roberts, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2024
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“Sportswriter.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sportswriter. Accessed 4 May. 2024.
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sportswriter
noun
sports·writ·er
ˈspō(ə)rts-ˌrīt-ər
ˈspȯ(ə)rts-
: a person who writes about sports (as for a newspaper)
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