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Recent Examples of sportswriter
Basketball is the city game, as the sportswriter Pete Axthelm called it half a century ago, and its chief narrative, for decades, was about escaping the ghetto.
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Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 23 June 2025
The first time, in 1947 when Detroit jewelry store owner Maury Winston sold the team then known as the Detroit Gems to a Twin Cities group including then 24-year-old Minneapolis Star-Tribune sportswriter Sid Hartman, the sale price was $15,000.
—Jim Alexander, Oc Register, 22 June 2025
Lee explains his perspective, as a sportswriter and as a fan, that teams and leagues are taking advantage of supporters.
—Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 19 June 2025
Twenty-three years of a smug, smarmy host, and a bunch of sportswriters desperate for sound bites and attention.
—Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2025
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Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 23 June 2025
The first time, in 1947 when Detroit jewelry store owner Maury Winston sold the team then known as the Detroit Gems to a Twin Cities group including then 24-year-old Minneapolis Star-Tribune sportswriter Sid Hartman, the sale price was $15,000.
—Jim Alexander, Oc Register, 22 June 2025
Lee explains his perspective, as a sportswriter and as a fan, that teams and leagues are taking advantage of supporters.
—Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 19 June 2025
Twenty-three years of a smug, smarmy host, and a bunch of sportswriters desperate for sound bites and attention.
—Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sportswriter
Noun
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As a travel journalist, Claire Dodd has checked into five-star hotels and set sail on butler-staffed cruises.—
Julia Buckley,
CNN Money,
4 Aug. 2025
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Canadian filmmaker Proudfoot first met Hesse when the latter was 90-years-old after Ghanaian journalist Justice Baidoo (who is a co-producer on The Eyes of Ghana) introduced the two filmmakers while Proudfoot was in Ghana shooting a film for UNICEF.—
Diana Lodderhose,
Deadline,
4 Aug. 2025
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These figures include single-family homes, condominiums and townhomes. Reach growth and development reporter Matthew Glowicki at mglowicki@courier-journal.com or 502-582-4000.—
Matthew Glowicki,
The Courier-Journal,
29 July 2025
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Regional politics reporter Erin Glynn can be reached at eglynn@enquirer.com, @ee_glynn on X or @eringlynn on Bluesky.—
Erin Glynn,
The Enquirer,
29 July 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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Longtime residents will remember that South Bay newsman Rigo Chacon started a nonprofit and scholarship fund called Abrazos and Books back in 1990, after being moved by the devastation created by the Mexico City earthquake.—
Sal Pizarro,
The Mercury News,
19 Nov. 2024
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Many council members and their staffers also took trips across the country and internationally during the same time frame.—
Ella McCarthy,
Austin American Statesman,
31 July 2025
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Crucially, Cervera left one member of the arrest team, a Drug Enforcement Agency staffer, back in the public hallway.—
Daniel Bice,
jsonline.com,
30 July 2025
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Kevin Nealon Nealon's Gary Potter, Happy's onetime course partner who famously advised him to send his ball home in the first movie, now apparently works as a correspondent for the Tour Championship.—
Megan McCluskey,
Time,
25 July 2025
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Josh Johnson slides behind the host’s desk for the The Daily Show this week, a first for the comedian who’s been a correspondent for the Comedy Central late night show for more than a year after joining the writing staff in 2017.—
Cathy Applefeld Olson,
Forbes.com,
22 July 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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Not all players will use the service here: seven-time Wimbledon champion Novak Djokovic uses a private stringer.—
Caoimhe O'Neill,
New York Times,
11 July 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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Throwing his cell phone out the window is exactly the action taken by Kinnick – who, like the author himself, is a former newspaperman, and who, again like the author, was reared and still lives in Spokane, WA.—
Samantha Dunn,
Oc Register,
10 June 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 7 Aug. 2025.
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