• Richard S. Heller (January 10, 1938 – March 20, 2014) was a longtime sportswriter and columnist for The Washington Times. Heller began his career writing...
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  • Richard Leonard Young (October 17, 1917 – August 30, 1987) was an American sportswriter best known for his direct and abrasive style, and his 45-year association...
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    Skip Bayless (category Sportswriters from Oklahoma)
    the development. Bayless was voted Texas sportswriter of the year by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association three times (1979, 1984 and...
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  • columnist for The Washington Post Jo Piazza, journalist Charlie Pierce, sportswriter, pundit Lydia Polgreen, journalist, opinion columnist at The New York...
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  • The 2023 San Miguel Corporation (SMC) - Philippine Sportswriters Association (PSA) Annual Awards was an annual awarding ceremony honoring the individuals...
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    Hunter S. Thompson (category Sportswriters from California)
    to prominence with the publication of Hell's Angels (1967), a book for which he spent a year living with the Hells Angels motorcycle club to write a first-hand...
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    coach John McKay called him "Errol Flynn". Local St. Petersburg Times sportswriter Hubert Mizell coined the somewhat belittling nickname "Bucco Bruce" in...
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  • short-order cook at a diner. Vito introduces himself initially as a sportswriter named Vincent from Scottsdale, Arizona and that he's been divorced for...
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  • Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved May 15, 2024. Niles, Russ (May 4, 2024). "Dick Rutan Dies at 85". AvWeb. Ivy Ericksen. Retrieved May 4, 2024. Kuznikov,...
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  • (b. 1930) Dick Rutan, 85, aviator (b. 1938) May 4 Bob Avellini, 70, football player (Chicago Bears) (b. 1953) Dan Castellano, 77, sportswriter (The Star-Ledger)...
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    was pitching for the Seattle Mariners at the age of 40, was tagged by sportswriters as "The Ancient Mariner". Twenty years later, Jamie Moyer (who pitched...
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  • Mike Lupica (category Sportswriters from New York (state))
    1974 he graduated from Boston College. He first came to prominence as a sportswriter in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. Lupica wrote "The Sporting Life" column at...
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    Reese, who grew up in Louisville, Kentucky, would sign. According to sportswriter Roger Kahn, who later became close friends with Reese, the petition essentially...
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    she married a second time the following year, to Los Angeles Times sportswriter Dick Irving Hyland. The marriage lasted two years before the couple divorced...
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    New York City sportswriter Oscar Madison (Jack Klugman) mirrored the real life feuds he had with some of New York's leading sportswriters. He also appeared...
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  • 2017-04-19. Retrieved 2024-09-17. "Doug Smith, 81, colorful newsman, sportswriter and TV personality", The Buffalo News, April 20, 2017 "Sandy Gallin,...
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    (March 13, 1922 – May 26, 2015) was an American sports executive and sportswriter. He was the first executive director of the National Collegiate Athletic...
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    because of his high level of commitment and performance. According to sportswriter Mark Heisler of Forbes, "circa 2004–2007, Kobe was the most alienated...
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    Arturo Godoy, Lou Nova, and Max and Buddy Baer. Though assumed by some sportswriters to have been a reference to his "pulchritude" or physical appearance...
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  • The Echoing Green. Pantheon Books. pp. 195–196. ISBN 0-375-42154-8. Heller, Dick (March 10, 2003). "Nat Allbright was the Dodgers to many fans in the...
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    to the Dodgers. Al Campanis, a Dodgers scout, heard about Koufax from sportswriter Jimmy Murphy of the Brooklyn Eagle who covered sandlot teams in Brooklyn...
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    Paterno in the television film Paterno based on a 2012 biography by sportswriter Joe Posnanski. Paterno premiered on HBO on April 7, 2018. Pacino starred...
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    dabbled in during the off seasons. Regarding his retirement from baseball, sportswriter Furman Bisher was quoted as saying "his future seemed unlimited...I shall...
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    Post. Valli, November 18, 1968. Rappoport, p. 89. Davis, pp. 323–324. Dick Heller (November 17, 2003). "Showing of 'Heidi' sacked NFL and fans in '68"...
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  • of 'Women's Work'". Cultured magazine. Retrieved May 29, 2023. Heller, Jules; Heller, Nancy G., eds. (1995). North American Women Artists of the Twentieth...
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    Chilly Billy, host of Chiller Theatre and Studio Wrestling Murray Chass – sportswriter Beano Cook – ESPN college football analyst Myron Cope – sports journalist...
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    Griffey and Baylor, we can't win. — Steinbrenner to New York Times sportswriter Murray Chass. This criticism eventually became somewhat of an anachronism...
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  • Darcelle XV, 92, drag queen (b. 1930) Jerry Green, 94, Hall of Fame sportswriter (Associated Press, The Detroit News) (b. 1928) Joseph R. Inge, 75, lieutenant...
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  • (2010–2021), heart and kidney disease. Patrick Smith, 71, Australian sportswriter (The Age, The Australian). Kevin Turen, 44, American film and television...
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  • Deas, 82, English historian. 30 July – David W. Potter, 74, Scottish sportswriter. 1 August – Tony Brien, 54, Irish footballer (Leicester City, Chesterfield...
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