sportswriter

noun

sports·​writ·​er ˈspȯrts-ˌrī-tər How to pronounce sportswriter (audio)
variants or less commonly sports writer or sports-writer
: a person who writes about sports especially for a newspaper
In an opening-day column for the Huntsville Times, one sportswriter beseeched readers not to let football poison friendship and provoke brawls.Steve Kemper
sportswriting noun
or sports writing

Examples of sportswriter in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Chris Mortensen, an award-winning sportswriter who pioneered the role of the N.F.L. insider, reporting omnivorously for various ESPN programs on trades, the draft, free-agent signings, injuries, retirements and scandals, died on Sunday in Birmingham, Ala. Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2024 Star-Telegram sportswriter Mac Engel looks into how since 1989, Jones has turned the Dallas Cowboys into North America’s most valuable franchise and North Texas into a sports, entertainment, and event destination. Candi Bolden, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 Mar. 2024 Richard Dunn, a longtime sportswriter, writes the Dunn Deal column regularly for The Orange County Register’s weekly, The Coastal Current North. Richard Dunn, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024 And as Mack or any other sportswriter could tell you, when calling a basic play, success really boils down to execution and making the right calls. Brian Lowry, CNN, 14 Feb. 2024 There were few female sportswriters or sportscasters working at that time, a few of them in Chicago. Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2024 Brown, the first Black sportswriter at the Star-Telegram and the first Black sports columnist at a newspaper in Texas, died in 2020. Clarence E. Hill Jr., Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Feb. 2024 Reilly, who is a member of the National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Hall of Fame and was voted the national sportswriter of the year by the National Sports Media Association 11 times, has watched from afar as the once-proud magazine fell into disrepair. Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 28 Jan. 2024 Neal Rubin covered the best bowlers in the world during his sportswriter days, but alas, nothing rubbed off. Neal Rubin, Detroit Free Press, 11 Jan. 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

1907, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of sportswriter was in 1907

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“Sportswriter.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sportswriter. Accessed 19 Mar. 2024.

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sportswriter

noun
sports·​writ·​er ˈspō(ə)rts-ˌrīt-ər How to pronounce sportswriter (audio)
ˈspȯ(ə)rts-
: a person who writes about sports (as for a newspaper)

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