List of American sportswriters
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The following is a list of notable American sportswriters who worked for the sports departments of their respective newspapers.
Historical sportswriters
- Bob Addie
- Les Biederman
- Furman Bisher
- Jimmy Cannon
- Henry Chadwick
- Bill Corum
- Adeline Daley[1]
- George W. Daley
- Dan Daniel
- Pierce Egan
- Charley Feeney
- Larry Felser
- Otto Floto
- Mary Garber
- Idah McGlone Gibson[2]
- Halsey Hall
- Arnold Hano
- Sid Hartman
- W. C. Heinz
- Zander Hollander
- Jerome Holtzman
- James Jerpe[3]
- Leonard Koppett
- Sam Lacy
- John Lardner
- Ring Lardner
- Cary B. Lewis[4]
- Fred Lieb
- Tim Murnane
- Jack Murphy
- Jimmy Murphy[5]
- Bill Nunn[6]
- Murray Olderman
- Baz O'Meara[7]
- Edwin Pope
- Shirley Povich
- Rud Rennie
- Grantland Rice
- Edwin Rumill
- Damon Runyon
- Red Smith
- Lillian Vickers-Smith[8]
- Steve Wilstein
- Dick Young
By publications
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Baltimore Sun
Boston Globe
Boston Herald
Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Tribune
The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio)
The Dallas Morning News
The Dayton Daily News
The Denver Post
Detroit Free Press
Detroit News
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
The Fresno Bee
Green Bay Press-Gazette
Newsday
Los Angeles Times
Louisville Courier-Journal
Miami Herald
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Minneapolis Star Tribune
New York Daily News
New York Post
The New York Times
The Oakland Press
Oakland Tribune
The Oregonian
Philadelphia Daily News
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
San Antonio Express-News
San Francisco Chronicle
San Jose Mercury News
Sports Illustrated
- Walter Bingham
- Roy Blount Jr.
- Robert H. Boyle
- Robert Creamer
- Frank Deford
- George Dohrmann
- Michael Farber
- Ron Fimrite
- Pat Forde
- Peter Gammons
- Dick Gordon
- Karl Taro Greenfeld
- Jon Heyman
- Ed Hinton
- Richard Hoffer
- Dan Jenkins
- Sally Jenkins
- Robert F. Jones
- Larry F. Keith
- Armen Keteyian
- Franz Lidz
- Melissa Ludtke[59]
- Jackie MacMullan
- Ivan Maisel
- Stewart Mandel
- Arash Markazi
- Tex Maule
- Jack McCallum
- Leo Monahan[60]
- Leigh Montville
- Kenny Moore
- Mark Mulvoy[61]
- Jim Murray
- William Nack
- Jack Olsen
- Dan Patrick
- Jeff Pearlman
- George Plimpton
- Joe Posnanski
- Rick Reilly
- Selena Roberts
- Steve Rushin
- Budd Schulberg
- Bud Shrake
- Michael Silver
- Gary Smith
- Shelley Smith
- Rick Telander
- Whitney Tower
- John Underwood[62]
- Tom Verducci
- Kurt Vonnegut
- Grant Wahl
- Jon Wertheim
- Ralph Wiley
- Herbert Warren Wind
- Alexander Wolff
- Steve Wulf
- Don Yaeger
- Peter King
- Paul Zimmerman
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
St. Paul Pioneer Press
USA Today
The Washington Post
Miscellaneous
- Patricia Babcock-McGraw, sportswriter for the Daily Herald
- Katherine Dunn, novelist who covered boxing for the Willamette Week, The Oregonian, and The New York Times[68]
American women sportswriters
- Kate Fagan
- Cynthia Frelund
- Jennifer Frey
- Mary Garber
- Carrie Gerlach Cecil
- Jean Giambrone
- Jane Gross[69]
- Maggie Hathaway
- Jemele Hill
- Sally Jenkins
- Christina Kahrl
- Mina Kimes
- Sarah Langs
- Marjorie Herrera Lewis
- Alison Lukan
- Jackie MacMullan[12]
- Myra MacPherson
- Juliet Macur
- Sadie Kneller Miller
- Marie Millikan
- Rachel Nichols
- Lisa Olson
- Maureen Orcutt
- Molly Qerim
- Marly Rivera
- Alanna Rizzo
- Selena Roberts
- Sherry Ross[37]
- Holly Rowe
- Jen Royle
- Lisa Nehus Saxon
- Nell Scovell
- Mary Shane
- Ramona Shelburne
- Shelley Smith
- Sage Steele
- Karintha Styles
- Lou Swarz
- Maribel Vinson
- Lesley Visser
- Charean Williams
- Joan Wulff
- Ina Eloise Young
- Ellen Zavian