How to Use sportswriter in a Sentence

sportswriter

noun
  • His work as a freelance sportswriter soon took him abroad for baseball.
    — Henry Bushnell, New York Times, 3 June 2026
  • Not entirely -- at least not when a sportswriter showed up and egged him on.
    — oregonlive, 21 Dec. 2021
  • Part of that is my sportswriter brain, which likes to look for the storyline.
    — Sean McIndoe, The Athletic, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Stiverne showed up for his rematch with Wilder with the body of a sportswriter.
    — Dylan Hernandez, latimes.com, 3 May 2018
  • Paunchy middle-aged sportswriters watching the game from home were gassed.
    — Grant Brisbee, The Athletic, 12 Aug. 2024
  • Indeed, that’s how it was received, not least by this sportswriter.
    — Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 14 May 2021
  • Despite it all, though, many sportswriters have still tried to predict how things will turn out.
    — Justin Klawans, The Week, 6 Sep. 2023
  • And so many of the Northeast Ohio sportswriters from years ago.
    — Scott Patsko, cleveland.com, 31 May 2017
  • The experience shaped his idea of what a sportswriter should be.
    — Emmett Lindner, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2022
  • The sportswriters were there to write, in ways that the other people on the paper weren’t.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Roland Garros has long had great loot, often too great on a sportswriter’s salary.
    — New York Times, 12 June 2021
  • The rest of us were sportswriters and sportscasters from different states.
    — Terry Pluto, cleveland.com, 16 Jan. 2018
  • What happens when a sportswriter picks some of the toughest games of the week and goes head-to-head against a sharp?
    — Joseph Goodman, al, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Fans and sportswriters will make more of the matchup against his previous team than Jones will.
    — Katherine Fitzgerald, azcentral, 15 July 2019
  • Rodgers, as O’Connor notes, is known to sportswriters as a decent-enough guy.
    — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2024
  • This matchup has been so wild that every game seems to send sportswriters searching through the record books for precedent.
    — Andrew Greif, NBC news, 10 June 2026
  • Fill out the form below and the Herald sportswriters may answer them at the event.
    — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 9 Sep. 2025
  • True, most fans don’t care when sportswriters get stiffed in their pursuit of information.
    — Steve Buckley, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Unlike The Draftniks, most sportswriters didn’t watch hours of tape.
    — Tim Rohan, SI.com, 19 Apr. 2018
  • His second call was to sportswriter Frank Deford.
    — Ian Thomas, CNBC, 4 Mar. 2026
  • If the coaches and the sportswriters disagreed, oh well, two title-holders.
    — Stewart Mandel, New York Times, 23 June 2026
  • The Melli Potential was so plain to see that even a sportswriter couldn’t miss it.
    — Dallas News, 30 Mar. 2021
  • Mon Who is the most handsome sportswriter in Kansas City?
    — Jesse Newell, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2026
  • In those days, The Republic was the very best training ground for a sportswriter.
    — Kent Somers, The Arizona Republic, 18 Feb. 2023
  • Andy Kindler played Andy, a fellow sportswriter with a bad romantic track record.
    — Danny Horn, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Each week, Express-News sportswriters debate the issues of the day.
    — Jim Lefko, San Antonio Express-News, 11 May 2018
  • In 1990, a sportswriter called him the most powerful man in the college game.
    — oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Letourneau honed that narrative approach during his decade-plus as a sportswriter.
    — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Mar. 2026
  • Letourneau honed that narrative approach during his decade-plus as a sportswriter.
    — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Mar. 2026
  • But there’s a reason team presidents hire coaches and sportswriters write columns.
    — Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 May 2026

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