From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishsportswritersports‧writ‧er /ˈspɔːtsˌraɪtə $ ˈspɔːrtsˌraɪtər/ noun [countable] someone whose job is to write about sports for a newspaper or magazine
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sportswriter• During undergraduate years at California State, he went to work at the Fresno Guide as a sportswriter.• Chadwick is thought to have refined the ideas of another sportswriter, one M. J. Kelly, in this regard.• This is an occupational hazard shared by sportswriters and opinion pollsters.• Lawrence has proved a master of communication and a breath of fresh air to North-East sportswriters.• Every sportswriter can float three trade rumors a year.• Everybody likes him, except, I guess, other sportswriters.• Then he wrote out a sizable check of his own and handed it to another Republic sportswriter. 