sportswriter
- noun
- /ˈspɔrtsˌraɪtər/
- Literature
- After the match, the sportswriter interviewed the coach about the team's strategy.
- sportswriter Frank Deford
- sportswriter Christine Brennan
- sportswriter Naylor
Examples
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Have any of you guys read from many nationally known sportswriters over the past year?
Blog text (24) -
Bob, that gentleman you were just talking to, that's Grantland Rice, the sportswriter.
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A sportswriter once wrote that he fought like the devil...
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Sir, I am the most successful sportswriter in America and not merely a 'moderate success.'
Fiction book (1994) -
Send the sportswriter to the play; the drama critic is sick.
Fiction book (2000) -
Makes you proud to be a sportswriter, doesn't it?
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So you're a sportswriter now.
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As a novelist, I turned out to be a pretty good sportswriter.
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Athletes, after all, are characters to a sportswriter, just as family members must be to a memoirist.
Blog text (9) -
I've been one of the highest-paid sportswriters for the past 14 years.
Synonyms
A reporter who writes about sports games and players
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Sportswriter joins sport, which originally meant 'play' or 'enjoyment', and writer, meaning 'someone who writes'. So, a sportswriter is someone who writes about games, matches, and sports events.