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    Dec 20, 2011 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  1. Hall of Fame sportswriter Conlin accused of child sex abuse

    PHILADELPHIA -- A veteran sportswriter and columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News was accused in a newspaper report Tuesday of molesting three girls and a boy in the 1970s, including his niece, who is now a prosecutor.
    The Philadelphia Inquirer
    PHILADELPHIA -- A veteran sportswriter and columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News was accused in a newspaper report Tuesday of molesting three girls and a boy in the 1970s, including his niece, who is now a prosecutor. Authorities said no criminal...

    Tags: Facebook, Ring Lardner Jr., Baseball, Abusive Behavior, Jerry Sandusky

    2. Oct 28, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  2. Hollywood sports movies: Do fans love losers as much as winners?

    24 Frames
    My pals who are big sports nuts love to heap scorn on Hollywood sports movies, especially when the discussion is unfolding in a bar. Their biggest complaint? The films are squishy, full of more easy sentiment than soul, with the victories being achieved...
    3. Mar 7, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  3. Jim Bellows dies at 86; legendary editor of L.A. Herald Examiner

    Jim Bellows, a legendary editor who built a career resuscitating underdog big-city newspapers from Los Angeles to New York and helped turn Tom Wolfe and Jimmy Breslin into stars, has died. He was 86.
    Jim Bellows, a legendary editor who built a career resuscitating underdog big-city newspapers from Los Angeles to New York and helped turn Tom Wolfe and Jimmy Breslin into stars, has died. He was 86. Bellows, a longtime resident of Brentwood, died...

    Tags: Arts and Culture, Bob Dylan, John Hay, Employers, TV Guide

    4. Jul 21, 2008 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  4. Baseball Hall-of-Famer Jerome Holtzman dies

    Jerome Holtzman, who went from copy boy to Hall of Famer in a distinguished career as a Chicago sportswriter, died Saturday after a long illness. He was 81 and was affectionately known to colleagues as "the Dean," a term reflecting his stature as a baseball-writing "lifer" and his numerous accomplishments over four decades.
    Tribune staff reporter
    Jerome Holtzman, who went from copy boy to Hall of Famer in a distinguished career as a Chicago sportswriter, died Saturday after a long illness. He was 81 and was affectionately known to colleagues as "the Dean," a term reflecting his stature as a...

    Tags: Baseball, Arts and Culture, Leo Durocher, Chicago Sun-Times, Michael Jordan

    5. Jan 6, 2009 |Blog| Newsday

  5. Grantland Rice, W.C. Heinz, Red Smith never blogged

    Watchdog
    Here is an interesting essay about the state of sportswriting from the Columbia Journalism Review. It was recommended by long-lost Friend of WatchDog Richard Deitsch, who is about halfway into his fellowship at Michigan, where he is trying to fix......

    Tags: ESPN (tv network), Michigan, Philadelphia Eagles

    6. Jun 24, 2009 |Blog| Newsday

  6. Dan Jenkins? Red Smith? Jay Mariotti? Who's No. 1?

    Watchdog
    Someone asked during my online chat Tuesday whether I thought prolific U.S. Open Twitterer Dan Jenkins is one of the top 10 sportswriters of all time. I replied by saying I am not an expert on the work of sportswriters......

    Tags: Shaquille O'Neal, U.S. Open (tennis)

    7. May 4, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  7. 'Everything They Had' by David Halberstam

    <b>Everything They Had</b> <b>Sports Writing From David Halberstam</b> <b>David Halberstam</b> <b>Hyperion: 402 pp., $24.95</b>
    Everything They Had Sports Writing From David Halberstam David Halberstam Hyperion: 402 pp., $24.95 When David Halberstam was killed in a car crash near San Francisco last spring, he'd just finished what turned out to be his final book, "The Coldest...

    Tags: Baseball, National Basketball Association, Arts and Culture, Dining and Drinking, Muhammad Ali

    8. May 30, 1999 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  8. Perfect penmanship

    Tribune staff reporter
    It occurred to me that the world, or baseball, anyhow, owes Jerome Holtzman his own action figure. Being the freshly designated "official baseball historian" is all very nice, but action figures say it louder these days. Why an action figure for...

    Tags: Anthony Trollope, Baseball, Arts and Culture, Entertainment, Sammy Sosa

    9. Mar 7, 2004 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  9. 'Cow Town' Cool

    It's an hour before game time at Sacramento's Arco Arena, and the faithful have gathered for battle. Cowbells dangling around their necks, their hair dyed purple and black, they carry hand-painted signs with a simple message: &quot;Beat L.A."
    David Davis last wrote for the magazine about the Mad Pride movement led by former mental illness patients.
    It's an hour before game time at Sacramento's Arco Arena, and the faithful have gathered for battle. Cowbells dangling around their necks, their hair dyed purple and black, they carry hand-painted signs with a simple message: "Beat L.A." No matter that...

    Tags: National Basketball Association, Robert Horry, The Real World (tv program), Gray Davis, Restaurants

    10. Apr 26, 2001 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  10. Prized fighters reap rewards

    Sun Staff
    When Vincent Pettway, the handsome man and superb fighter, knocked out Italy's Gianfranco Rosi in Las Vegas on Sept. 17, 1994, he became Baltimore's first world boxing champion in more than half a century. He made headlines, logged a fair amount of mug...

    Tags: Concussion, World War II (1939-1945), Rock (tv program), Arts and Culture, Muhammad Ali

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