Sportswriters Sportswriters Carroll H. "Beano" Cook (Born September 1, 1931) is an ESPN college football commentator. He recieved his B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh in 1954. ...more on Wikipedia about "Beano Cook"
Henry Chadwick ( October 5, 1824, Exeter, England – April 20, 1908, Brooklyn, New York) was a sportswriter, baseball statistician and historian. ...more on Wikipedia about "Henry Chadwick"
The J.G. Taylor Spink Award is the highest award given by the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA) to its members. The award was instituted in 1962 and named after J.G. Taylor Spink, publisher of The Sporting News from 1914 to 1962, who was also the first recipient. ...more on Wikipedia about "J.G. Taylor Spink Award"
Sports columnist Jerry Magee was called "an American Football League apologist" by his contemporaries who covered NFL football. Eventually, he adopted that sobriquet as a badge of honor. At every opportunity, Magee took on NFL apologists like William Wallace of The New York Times and Jerry Green of the Detroit Free Press, puncturing NFL myths. Writing for the San Diego Union and Pro Football Weekly, Magee also brought national attention and enlightenment to the AFL's style of football. Like Larry Felser and Will McDonough, in his service on the pro football hall of fame board of selectors, he lent strong support to the candidacy of AFL players, enhanced by his first-hand knowledge of their accomplishments. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jerry Magee"
Leonard Koppett (born 15 September 1923 in Moscow, died 22 June 2003 in San Francisco) was one of the most prolific and influential sportswriters of the 20th century. ...more on Wikipedia about "Leonard Koppett"
Page2 is a feature section of ESPN's website. The section contains humorous, opinionated articles on American sport, and regular contributors including "The Sports Guy" Bill Simmons, Skip Bayless, Jim Caple, and Scoop Jackson. ...more on Wikipedia about "Page2"
Ring Lardner ( March 6, 1885 - September 27, 1933) was a sports columnist and short story writer best known for his satirical takes on the sports world, marriage, and the theatre. Born Ringgold Wilmer Lardner in Niles, Michigan, from adolescence his ambition was to become a sports reporter, an ambition he fulfilled in 1907 by getting a position on the Chicago Inter-Ocean. He was editor of Sporting News in St. Louis in 1910 and 1911 he contributed columns to the Boston American, Chicago American and others until 1919 when he joined a syndicate. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ring Lardner"
Ron Borges is a sportswriter for the Boston Globe. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ron Borges"
Shirley Lewis Povich ( July 15, 1905 – June 4, 1998) became a sports columnist and reporter for the Washington Post in 1923. Having grown up in coastal Bar Harbor, Maine, far from a major league team, the first game he ever saw was a game for which he wrote the game story. In 1975, he was recipient of the Baseball Writers Association of America's J.G. Taylor Spink Award, the Baseball Hall of Fame honor for sportswriters. ...more on Wikipedia about "Shirley Povich"
Sportswriting is a form of journalism who writes and reports on sports topics and events. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sportswriting"
Tim Cowlishaw is a national sportswriter for The Dallas Morning News. A true Texan, he was raised in Dallas and grew up with the local sports teams. He began going to Dallas Cowboys games in 1963, Texas Rangers games in 1972, and Dallas Mavericks games in 1980. He graduated from Richardson High School in 1973 and in 1978 he graduated from the University of Texas in Austin with a degree in communications. He has been with the Dallas Morning News since 1984 and has been a sports columnist at the newspaper since August 2 1998. ...more on Wikipedia about "Tim Cowlishaw"
Will McDonough ( July 6, 1935 – January 9, 2003) gave the American Football League honest exposure in his articles and columns in a nationally prominent newspaper, the Boston Globe. Up until his death from a heart attack at the age of 67, he had attended every AFL-NFL World Championship game and every Super Bowl. His knowledge of the game of professional football, his ability to get "the inside story", and his honesty and integrity lent credence to his articles on the Boston Patriots and the teams they competed against in the American Football League, which formed the genesis of modern professional football. ...more on Wikipedia about "Will McDonough"
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