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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