Sentences with word «sportswriter»
A sportswriter is someone who writes about sports events and athletes for newspapers, magazines, or online platforms. Full definition
With my brown corduroy jacket, oxford shirt and media credential, I was dressed like I walked out of Sportswriter Central Casting.
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Clearly (as sportswriters love to point out) this will never be the NBA.
On Sunday, Jim Murray, the greatest sportswriter who ever lived, kissed his gorgeous wife, started to put on his pajamas, said, «Linda, something's wrong,» and collapsed.
Morganti is a hockey analyst for ESPN and a former sportswriter for The Philadelphia Inquirer.
John Feinstein's latest, Tales from Q School: Inside Golf's Fifth Major, finds the noted sportswriter in characteristic investigative mode.
Don Cockell was acclaimed by sportswriters on both sides of the Atlantic for his ability to absorb hundreds of Marciano's hardest blows, and one Englishman went so far as to write that»... this was the kind of extra courage which makes you proud to belong to the human race and to have been sired by the same breed as the boy who grew up in the back streets of Battersea.»
While success in college and beyond looks promising for Smotherman, he can surely find success anytime he wants to knock around a local sportswriter on the golf course.
That curve ball was just one of the memories I recalled as my wife, our 12 - year - old son and I watched «Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story,» a film directed by Peter Miller, written by New York Times sportswriter Ira Berkow and narrated by actor Dustin Hoffman.
's senior baseball writer and a three - time National Sportswriter of the Year (2014, 2015 and 2016).
«You'd always do this during a game,» he said to a local sportswriter as he whizzed into the sink.
It's axiomatic that some of the best writing about sports is done by people who are not sportswriters per se.
Dye, who won six bowl games as Auburn's head coach, apparently did not express concern about the male members of the selection committee who did not play collegiate football, such as former Big East commissioner Mike Tranghese or former sportswriter Steve Wieberg.
In The Majors, bestselling sportswriter John Feinstein accompanies a dozen top golfers as they play these tournaments, revealing what it is that makes them so demanding - and what it takes to win such exalted prizes.
Paramount Had what sportswriters call a rebuilding year.
After the draft meetings in January, Bill Braucher and Edwin Pope, two Miami sportswriters, were talking to Joe Robbie, the Dolphins» owner, trying to get him to commit himself on whether he was going to fire Head Coach George Wilson.
I would hardly call «a film directed by Peter Miller, written by New York Times sportswriter Ira Berkow and narrated by actor Dustin Hoffman» a «Hollywood» film.
«I was sitting right here one night, maybe 15 years ago,» Oakland Press sportswriter Jim Hawkins says in the workroom of the press box.
asked Detroit sportswriter Joe Falls.)
My oracles of the time — Marty O'Neill on WMIN radio and sportswriters Joe Hennessy and Mark Tierney — called him the People's Choice and Old Reliable.
SCOTTISH GOLF Rick Reilly is not only one of the best sportswriters but also one of the best writers, period (Unseen Hands on My Game, Aug. 17).
The genesis of this sticky literary web occurred in the spring of 1969 when Chicago Sun - Times Sportswriter Jerry Holtzman approached Banks and got what he thought was approval to do Banks» life story.
The 1922 team was christened by sportswriter Grantland Rice as the Team of Destiny after it defeated Amos Alonzo Stagg's University of Chicago juggernaut 21 - 18.
A San Antonio sportswriter noted «the wonderful spirit» of the Bowie baseball team — «the way the pitchers bear down, the sharp fielding and baserunning reminiscent of the old St. Louis Gashouse Gang.»
After the 1976 season, Payton's second with the Bears, Chicago Tribune sportswriter Don Pierson visited him in Jackson, Miss., where Payton's family had recently moved from nearby Columbia.
As the great sportswriter Dan Jenkins described the Indy atmosphere in his 1991 semiautobiographical novel You Got ta Play Hurt, «There were cars and people as far as we could see, and the infield was already running with rivers of vomit, beer, grease, and smoke.»
Championed by sportswriter Sam Blake (Walter Brennan), Gehrig eventually gets recruited by the New York Yankees, joining a team of heavy hitters that includes the legendary Babe Ruth.
Co-author of best - seller - Francona: The Red Sox Years - featured in museum's Distinguished Speakers Series STURBRIDGE, Mass. (April 1, 2013): Award - winning Boston Globe sportswriter Dan Shaughnessy, co-author of the new book, Francona: The Red Sox Years, will speak at Old Sturbridge Village on Thursday, April 25, as part of the Village's continuing OSV Overseers» Distinguished Speaker Series...
Just when it seemed that he was to be permanently relegated to playing supporting and dark character roles on stage and screen, Matthau won the part of irretrievably slavish sportswriter Oscar Madison in the first Broadway production of Neil Simon's The Odd Couple (1965).
Played by Allen Lenny Weinrib is a fretful non-violent sportswriter married to a pert Soho gallery owner (Helena Bonham Carter) who insists that they adopt a baby boy.
Utah Jazz player insights, front - office gossip and game predictions, hosted by Salt Lake Tribune sportswriters Tony Jones, Kyle Goon and Aaron Falk.
But this succumbs to storyline: Manziel is the brash young gun who has made the bitter mistake of acting like a 20 - year - old, McCarron is the focused championship machine sportswriters fawn over.
It was only last month that Moose Krause, athletic director of Notre Dame University, assured a gathering of Chicago sportswriters that «Terry Brennan was a better coach this season than he was last year, and he will be at Notre Dame for many, many years to come.»
I've already tried the more insider approach for the last few years, and all it's won me is a heaping helping of mockery at family get - togethers because Mr. Internet Sportswriter got last in the family bracket again.
He's successfully done so in previous careers as a teacher, corporate sales manager and internationally published sportswriter and author.
As the legendary sportswriter Jim Murray said when he found out about his wife's cancer - «The cancer has metastasized.
Samantha Stevenson, the freelance sportswriter who delivers the big stories, is the mom of 18 - year - old Alexandra Stevenson.
Died At age 99, former amateur golf champion and New York Times sportswriter Maureen Orcutt.
In 1967, Colorado Coach Eddie Crowder was consoled by a Denver sportswriter: «Eddie, one of your toughest problems figures to be replacing Bernie McCall at quarterback.
One of today's premier sportswriters should know better than to propound such a generalization.
It was an uncomfortable week for Philadelphia sportswriters.
It turns out that many people — especially little generals like CP3 and Jordan and crusty sportswriters (you know who you are)-- don't find the Race for 200 Points, absurd alley - oop attempts, or lazy threes galore fun.
And by this evening, you'll be on a private jet to Las Vegas to pull a celebratory all - nighter while sportswriters in San Diego write columns that pair your name with the word «savior.»
The Boston Globe printed an account of the lockerroom incident first, on Sept. 21, and the Herald followed suit, and then two sportswriters overheard Pats owner Victor Kiam calling Olson «a classic bitch,» and there was no stopping this story.
«Players are like flies,» wrote an irritated sportswriter, but technical improvements came fast.