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NEWS ABOUT: sports journalism

sports journalism stories: 9 news summaries
ANDREA PEYSER

 Sex Rehab for 
 Steve Phillips? Oh, Please! 

Axed ESPN analyst is just the latest to use 'sex addict' as an excuse

Oct 29, 09 10:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - Steve Phillips and his fellow celebrity sex addicts prove "all that's required to claim that a man's transgression is really a disease over which he is powerless is a large bank account, a small degree of fame, a clueless wife. And a straight face," writes Andrea Peyser in... More »

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entertainment • television • rehab • ESPN • sex scandal • sex addiction • sports journalism • Steve Phillips • Brooke Hundley

ncaa tournament

March Madness Sets Standard for Online Sports


Mar 19, 09 1:42 PM CDT
(Newser) - If you're reading this with an NCAA tournament game streaming live in another browser tab, you're in good company: In 2008, nearly 5 million people watched March Madness online, reports the Chicago Tribune. The tipping point between novelty and mainstay came 4 years ago, when CBS made access free,... More »

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sports • Internet • NCAA • NBC • CBS • NCAA basketball • March Madness • sports journalism • 2009 NCAA Tournament • NCAA men's basketball tournament

(Newser) - Andrea Kremer’s done nearly everything in sports journalism: produced, directed, and won Emmys for her stories. But come game time, she—like most women sports journalists—are stuck on the sidelines, the Washington Post reports. The play-by-play booth is reserved almost exclusively for men, who will broadcast the... More »

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women in office • sports journalism

OPINION

Sports-Talk Shoutfest Has Ruined Politics on TV

Wilbon and Kornheiser are great, but CNN should stop imitating them

Nov 20, 08 3:11 PM CST
(Newser) - ESPN’s Pardon the Interruption, a show in which two sports writers “make fun of each other’s male pattern baldness and argue about sports,” often at high volume, is on many fans’ watch list, including political scientist Christopher A. Cooper. Unfortunately, PTI “has ruined American politics,... More »

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ESPN • journalism • debate • sports journalism • Tony Kornheiser • cable news • Pardon The Interruption • Michael Wilbon

Mariotti Quits Sun-Times, Newspaper Biz

Future is online, decides contrarian Chicago columnist

Aug 27, 08 2:19 PM CDT
(Newser) - Jay Mariotti has resigned from the Chicago Sun-Times, the controversial sports columnist tells the rival Tribune, after observing the toll the Internet has taken on newspapers. “I don't want to go down with it,” said the 47-year-old known for his contrarian opinions and run-ins with colleagues and athletes... More »

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Internet • newspaper • columnists • Chicago Sun Times • sports journalism • Jay Mariotti

Opinion

 Sports Columnists 
 Lost in Digital Transition 

Ink-and-paper set, losing touch with their cities and teams, jump for electronic havens

Jul 8, 08 4:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sports columnists are leaving behind their local teams and newspaper readership in droves for the greener pastures of the online and television worlds, and it's "something to be lamented," writes Robert Weintraub in the Columbia Journalism Review. “The gifted sports columnists often delivered the best writing in... More »

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Internet • American media • columnists • ESPN.com • blogs • sports journalism • Tony Kornheiser

Dan Patrick to Join NBC's Football Night

Move reunites him with former SportsCenter partner Olbermann

Jul 8, 08 10:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - Dan Patrick will join NBC's Football Night in America this fall, in a move that reunites him with Keith Olbermann. The two men changed the field of sportscasting with their 1992 debut on ESPN's SportsCenter, writes Broadcasting & Cable. Patrick will keep his radio show and Sports Illustrated column while... More »

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NBC • Dan Patrick • Keith Olbermann • Bob Costas • Tiki Barber • sports journalism • SportsCenter

Obituary

 Jim
 McKay
 Dead at 86 

ABC sportscaster was first to win Emmy

Jun 7, 08 12:34 PM CDT
(Newser) - Veteran sportscaster and TV journalist Jim McKay has died at age 86 of natural causes, ESPN reports. McKay is most famous for hosting ABC’s Wide World of Sports, and for covering the tragic 1972 Olympics in Munich, which were marred by the Black September attack on Israeli athletes. McKay... More »

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Sports Emmy • obituary • Olympic Games • Munich • sports journalism

OPINION

How TV, Money Robbed Sports Fans—and Journos

Playing field used to be level enough for writers to give true portraits

May 23, 08 6:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - The days when journalists could get to know professional athletes well enough to write the kinds of profiles that would give fans true insight are long gone, Pat Jordan laments on Slate, with television and the accompanying big money the main culprits. Where Jordan once spent days with Catfish Hunter,... More »

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television • Barry Bonds • Josh Beckett • Alex Rodriguez • celebrity • sports journalism • Pat Jordan • Catfish Hunter

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