Definition of "sportswriter" [sportswriter]

• A person who writes about sports, especially for a newspaper or magazine. (noun)

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• "This column is a blatant rip-off of the column Charlie Vincent, a retired sportswriter from the Detroit Free Press, used to deliver to his readers."
• "Also, I've always figured hating a sportswriter is the same thing as supporting their career."
• "I follow moments, and to me, as a sportswriter, that is what has become the essence of sports: those stories that you're pretty lucky and pretty fortunate to get to tell on a regular basis."