sportswriter

[spawrts-rahy-ter, spohrts-]

noun

1. a journalist who reports on sports sports and sporting events.

Other Word Forms

• sportswriting noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of sportswriter¹

First recorded in 1900–05; sports + writer

Example Sentences

Mr. Bacon is an accomplished sportswriter who has written extensively about the Michigan Wolverines.

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Mike Kupper, husband, dad, grandpa and longtime sportswriter/editor, died September 17th of renal failure.

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He’s still in shape since he has to move up and down the sideline while watching out for players, coaches and sportswriters who might be in his way.

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It was the first lesson of a sportswriter — don’t worry about the money, bask in the spotlight of having your name appear in a byline.

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One time, a teenage girl, writing for her high school newspaper, was roughly shunted aside by the sportswriter pack before a Cincinnati Reds game.

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