They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.
Oscar Robertson
Quotes and wishes: «Sports Journalists»
More than sportswriting
Sportswriters have changed more than sportswriting.
Dick Schaap
Quotes and wishes: «Sports Journalists»
Real heroes
My real heroes have always been sportswriters.
Dan Jenkins
Quotes and wishes: «Sports Journalists»
Sportswriter’s life
A sportswriter’s life means never sitting with your wife or family at the games. Still working after everyone has gone to the party... Digging beneath a coach’s lies, not to forget those of athletic directors and general managers and owners of pro teams. Keeping a confidence. Risking it.
Dan Jenkins
Quotes and wishes: «Sports Journalists»
They don’t even know how to put uniforms on
Them sportswriters don’t even know how to put uniforms on, most of ’em.
Eric Dickerson
Quotes and wishes: «Sports Journalists»
Women sportswriters
Sure, women sportswriters look when they’re in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word?