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Recent Examples of sportswriter
He has been named Oregon sportswriter of the year four times and has won awards from APSE, SPJ, and Pro Basketball Writers Association.
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Jason Quick, The Athletic, 16 Jan. 2025
Deeds’ roles have included sportswriter, music critic and features editor.
—Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 10 Jan. 2025
In his 1994 book The Curse of Rocky Colavito, Cleveland sportswriter Terry Pluto described the tribulations of the Cleveland franchise after Colavito was traded to Detroit as a curse on the franchise.
—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
The Freaks List is The Athletic sportswriter Bruce Feldman's annual ode to college football players who have athletically freakish profiles.
—Danny Davis, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024
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Jason Quick, The Athletic, 16 Jan. 2025
Deeds’ roles have included sportswriter, music critic and features editor.
—Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 10 Jan. 2025
In his 1994 book The Curse of Rocky Colavito, Cleveland sportswriter Terry Pluto described the tribulations of the Cleveland franchise after Colavito was traded to Detroit as a curse on the franchise.
—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
The Freaks List is The Athletic sportswriter Bruce Feldman's annual ode to college football players who have athletically freakish profiles.
—Danny Davis, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sportswriter
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The former Fox News journalist Geraldo Rivera, who was friendly with Trump for decades in New York, predicted in December that Trump and his allies would soon turn their attention to the 22nd Amendment.—
Dan Mangan,
CNBC,
24 Jan. 2025
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In Reality Check stories, Star-Telegram journalists dig deeper into questions over facts, consequences and accountability.—
Matthew Adams,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
24 Jan. 2025
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Linda Girardi is a freelance reporter for The Beacon-News.—
Linda Girardi,
Chicago Tribune,
29 Jan. 2025
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The Kansas City Star Natalie Wallington was a reporter on The Star’s service journalism team with a focus on policy, labor, sustainability and local utilities from fall 2021 until early 2025.—
Natalie Wallington,
Kansas City Star,
29 Jan. 2025
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Ford himself moved shiny-eyed into the press of newsmen, extending handshakes and thanks.—
Peter Goldman,
Newsweek,
29 Dec. 2024
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The newsman is not, and can never be, a prognosticator; leave that to the weatherman.—
Harper's Magazine,
Harper's Magazine,
2 July 2024
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The indictment also alleged Adams and a staffer knowingly worked with Turkish nationals to send foreign money to straw donors for his mayoral campaign and used that money to rake in over $10 million from New York City's matching funds program.—
Aaron Katersky,
ABC News,
31 Jan. 2025
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On Tuesday, village staffers offered council members even more opportunities to cut costs by delaying some investments needed to reach the project’s full capacity.—
Alex Harris,
Miami Herald,
31 Jan. 2025
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Maggie has also worked as the show’s social media correspondent since 2021.—
Ashley Hume,
Fox News,
25 Jan. 2025
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In addition, Nicole Sganga will be homeland security correspondent, Natalie Brand will cover Washington as a weekday correspondent for CBS News 24/7 as well as CBS Newspath; and Erica Brown will cover Washington as a reporter, contributing to CBS News 24/7 and Newspath.—
Ted Johnson,
Deadline,
24 Jan. 2025
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Quillin, meanwhile, is a stringer for news services and often goes to the scenes of breaking news to record video.—
Noah Goldberg,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Jan. 2025
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Tua Tagovailoa has put his team back in playoff contention while the Browns have handed things over to third stringer Dorian Thompson-Robinson, who was awful last week.—
Hank Gola,
New York Daily News,
27 Dec. 2024
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Thanks to these translations, English-speaking readers are in a better position to ponder the mystery of how a timid, apolitical newspaperman wrote one of the most haunting novels of the age of Fascism and war.—
Christopher Tayler,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Jan. 2025
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Holden’s sincerity makes more of the newspaperman than is actually written in the script.—
THR Staff,
The Hollywood Reporter,
25 Dec. 2024
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The move back inside comes with a new plan to put dedicated police reporters on an accelerated security line.—
Leonard Greene,
New York Daily News,
29 Jan. 2025
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The series was adapted from Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, a non-fiction book by then-Baltimore Sun police reporter David Simon.—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
19 Aug. 2024
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“Sportswriter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sportswriter. Accessed 6 Feb. 2025.
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