How to Use sportswriter in a Sentence
sportswriter
noun-
And as a sportswriter, that alone moves him up my board.
— Jeff Seidel, Detroit Free Press, 9 June 2020 -
And so many of the Northeast Ohio sportswriters from years ago.
— Scott Patsko, cleveland.com, 31 May 2017 -
Stiverne showed up for his rematch with Wilder with the body of a sportswriter.
— Dylan Hernandez, latimes.com, 3 May 2018 -
Frei was named Colorado sportswriter of the year four times.
— Scott Allen, chicagotribune.com, 29 May 2017 -
The sportswriters were there to write, in ways that the other people on the paper weren’t.
— Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024 -
In acase youase yoase yase aseasathe high school sportswriter at AL.com.
— Ben Thomas | Bthomas@al.com, al, 7 Oct. 2022 -
What happens when a sportswriter picks some of the toughest games of the week and goes head-to-head against a sharp?
— Joseph Goodman, al, 12 Sep. 2019 -
The 76ers, of course, know that a panel of sportswriters and broadcasters votes on the rookie of the year award.
— Dakota Crawford, Indianapolis Star, 3 Apr. 2018 -
In 1990, a sportswriter called him the most powerful man in the college game.
— oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023 -
The night before, Jim Fuller, a sportswriter who lost his mother and father in the crash, had met the Streils.
— Ellen Barry Hilary Swift, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2023 -
At San Diego State in the 1990s, football practices were open to sportswriters.
— Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Sep. 2019 -
Frank Litsky, a longtime sportswriter for The Times, died in 2018.
— Frank Litsky, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2023 -
In those days, The Republic was the very best training ground for a sportswriter.
— Kent Somers, The Arizona Republic, 18 Feb. 2023 -
Fans and sportswriters will make more of the matchup against his previous team than Jones will.
— Katherine Fitzgerald, azcentral, 15 July 2019 -
Collinsworth, Michaels, and sideline reporter Michelle Tafoya were all dressed up as sportswriters from the 1920s.
— Charlotte Wilder, SI.com, 6 Sep. 2019 -
Unlike The Draftniks, most sportswriters didn’t watch hours of tape.
— Tim Rohan, SI.com, 19 Apr. 2018 -
Not entirely -- at least not when a sportswriter showed up and egged him on.
— oregonlive, 21 Dec. 2021 -
The author, Roger Kahn, was a sportswriter who covered the Dodgers during those days.
— New York Times, 4 July 2019 -
Each week, Express-News sportswriters debate the issues of the day.
— Jim Lefko, San Antonio Express-News, 11 May 2018 -
Mr. Zad worked closely with Post sportswriter Shirley Povich over the decades and met many of the great athletes and writers of his era.
— Washington Post, 17 May 2017 -
The Melli Potential was so plain to see that even a sportswriter couldn’t miss it.
— Dallas News, 30 Mar. 2021 -
Worsham, a former sportswriter in the SEC, was already cognizant of the trend with Auburn fans.
— Tom Green | Tgreen@al.com, al, 11 Jan. 2022 -
The rest of us were sportswriters and sportscasters from different states.
— Terry Pluto, cleveland.com, 16 Jan. 2018 -
Doesn’t the viewing public see the appeal of a plumber (or a sportswriter) crashing the Cotillion?
— Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 23 Nov. 2021 -
The experience shaped his idea of what a sportswriter should be.
— Emmett Lindner, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2022 -
Good will hunting: Wesley Sykes wasn’t the first sportswriter to tweet a picture of Fenway Park from the press box.
— Mike Digiovanna, latimes.com, 30 June 2018 -
Despite it all, though, many sportswriters have still tried to predict how things will turn out.
— Justin Klawans, The Week, 6 Sep. 2023 -
Roland Garros has long had great loot, often too great on a sportswriter’s salary.
— New York Times, 12 June 2021 -
But most sportswriters — who supported Dark — pointed to his record of starting Black and Latino players.
— Aram Goudsouzian / Made By History, TIME, 25 June 2024 -
Always quick to help or offer a word of praise to another sportswriter (even me), he has been widely admired and respected in our industry.
— Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 2 Mar. 2024
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