But I did dream this: Perhaps one of us upper-middle class Jews would become a sportswriter who got to vote for the Hall of Fame.
There's a sportswriter called Michael McCambridge who wrote a really great history of the NFL called America's Game.
His effortless victory in the 1936 Berlin Olympics drew from a Nazi sportswriter the nettled tribute: "In blood and instinct, Johnson is still living in a state of innocence in .
Spurs And Heat Tied Going Into Game 5 Of NBA Finals Two days after the Spurs throttled the Heat by nearly 40 points, Miami responded with a rout of its own in San Antonio to tie up the NBA Finals at two games apiece. Even better news for the defending champions? The Big Three, Lebron James, Dwayne Wade, and Chris Bosh, finally look like the Big Three again. Audie Cornish talks to sportswriter Stefan Fatsis about that and the scourge of flopping.
June 16, 2013 - NPR
Ortiz-Heymann: the Prior Generation theodp writes "Two decades before the White House was petitioned to remove U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz and her Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephen Heymann from their jobs for the allegedly overzealous prosecution of Aaron Swartz, the Boston Globe reported on allegations of 'sometimes heavy-handed tactics and inaccuracies' of an NFL investigation into sexual harassment charges made by a sportswriter ...
June 16, 2013 - Slashdot
Random thoughts from a dry mind From the notebook of a sportswriter who started the spring season with a moist, fertile mind but who ended it … with … ah, forget it.
June 15, 2013 - Greene County Messenger
Dan Rooney in Seattle Post Intelligencer The entire Steelers organization is deeply saddened to learn of the death of Myron Cope,said Steelers chairman Dan Rooney in a statement. "Myron touched millions of people throughout his life, first as a tremendous sportswriter and then as...
Wally Buono in Vancouver Sun It's like a boss telling a sportswriter who's covered football to go cover softball for two months,Buono says. "Believe me, you'll appreciate football a lot more and work a lot harder. Why? Because you've had a taste of the other. You...
Flip Saunders in NBA.com The unique thing was,Saunders said, "when you watched games, you really didn't care who won. It was kind of what it's like to be a sportswriter. You could really critique coaches, you could critique everything. Watching the game and...