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sports writer stories: 3 news summaries
OPINION

Web Didn't Kill Sportswriting; Lame, Humorless Writers Did

Writers today just don't know how to have fun

May 14, 09 10:01 AM CDT
(Newser) - When the working day is done, sportswriters just wanna have fun—or at least they did 50 years ago, when hot-type dinosaurs like Gary Cartwright and his gonzo cohorts roamed Dallas in capes and leotards pretending to be Italian acrobats. But today’s mirthless philistines are doing more to butcher... More »

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sports • media • Internet • newspaper • Texas • Dallas • reporter • sports writer • Gary Cartwright • Blackie Sherrod

 Newspaper Cuts 
 Are Emptying Out 
 Press Boxes 

Papers cutting back baseball coverage

Apr 7, 09 9:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - The independent baseball beat writer could be a dying profession as newspapers look to trim costs, the Wall Street Journal reports. In baseball-crazy cities like New York and Boston, not much is likely to change. "It would be suicide, quite honestly," says a Red Sox writer for the... More »

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newspaper • Boston Red Sox • Baltimore Orioles • Baseball Writers' Association of America • Washington Nationals • baseball • newspaper industry • sports writer

APPRECIATION

 Updike: An Author 
 'Hoping to Talk to America' 

Superlatives hardly lacking in wake of writer's death at 76

Jan 27, 09 3:44 PM CST
(Newser) - John Updike, who died today at 76, was many things: Bob Ryan, in the Boston Globe, calls him the author of the “most spellbinding essay ever written about baseball.” For Carolyn Kellogg, in the Los Angeles Times, the first line of his story A&P displays a “... More »

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obituary • literature • novelist • author • novel • Ted Williams • John Updike • sports writer

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