- Bill Simmons
Bill Simmons (born 1969), best known as The Sports Guy, is a columnist for "Page2" on ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine. His ESPN.com column is notable for being written from the viewpoint of a fan rather than an impartial journalist. Simmons aims for humor in his columns, often using extended analogies and references to pop culture (especially from the 1980s and 1990s). Simmons has earned a love/hate relationship with his readers, …
- Bill James
George William “Bill” James is a baseball writer, historian, and statistician whose work has been widely influential. Since 1977, James has written more than two dozen books devoted to baseball history and statistics. His approach, which he termed sabermetrics in reference to the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), scientifically analyzes and studies baseball, often through the use of statistical data, in an attempt to determine why teams win and lose.
- John Hollinger
John Hollinger is an influential figure in the field of APBRmetrics, the quantitative analysis of basketball. Hollinger was born on May 17, 1971 and grew up in Mahwah, New Jersey. He is a graduate the University of Virginia. Hollinger, a freelance writer, developed the website "Alleyoop.com" in 1996, initially as a hobby and sounding board for his musings on the game.
- Rick Reilly
Richard "Rick" Paul Reilly (born February 3, 1958 in Boulder, Colorado) is the "back-page" sportswriter for "Sports Illustrated". He has won the Sportswriter of the Year award 11 times.
- Mitch Albom
Mitch Albom 's bestselling books remind us of what truly matters in life. Called "a beautifully written book of great clarity and wisdom," Tuesdays with Morrie is Albom's touching memoir of his visits to his dying professor, Morrie Schwartz , and the life lessons learned along the way. Filled with humor and hope, what began as a way for Albom to help Morrie pay his medical bills became an international phenomenon and the bestselling memoir of all time.
- Peter Gammons
Peter Gammons (born April 9 1945) is a sportswriter, media personality and a National Baseball Hall of Fame honoree.
- Frank Deford
Author and commentator, Frank Deford is among the most versatile of American writers. His work has appeared in virtually every medium. Mr. Deford is the author of fifteen books, his newest, The Entitled , a novel about celebrity, sex and baseball, was published in the spring of 2007 to rave reviews.
- John Sickels
John Sickels (January 5, 1968-) is an American baseball writer, formerly of ESPN.com, that specializes in baseball's minor leagues and ameteur ranks. From 1996 to 2005 Sickels was a columnist for ESPN.com, writing regular "Down on the Farm" columns that took an in-depth look at baseball prospects. Sickels was let go by ESPN in February 2005, and soon thereafter started his own blog. Besides the blog, Sickels is a regular contributor to the fantasy sports website Rotowire.
- Grantland Rice
Grantland Rice (November 1, 1880-July 13, 1954) was an early 20th century American sportswriter.
- Peter King
Peter King (b. 1957, Springfield, Massachusetts) is a well-respected football columnist for "Sports Illustrated", the author of five books, most notably "Inside the Helmet", as well as a TV analyst and reporter. Since 2006, he is a part of "Football Night in America", NBC's Sunday night NFL studio show. King graduated from Ohio University in 1979, and following graduation, began working for the Cincinnati Enquirer, …
- Norman Chad
Norman Chad is a Los Angeles-based sportswriter and syndicated columnist who is frequently seen on the sports channel ESPN. Alongside sportscaster Lon McEachern, Chad is perhaps the best-known commentator on the World Series of Poker for ESPN. He also is an occasional guest host on the ESPN show "Pardon the Interruption" and has appeared as both host and movie critic on the ESPN Classic series "Reel Classics".
- Tony Kornheiser
Anthony Irwin Kornheiser (born July 13, 1948) is an American sportswriter and columnist for "The Washington Post", as well as a radio and television talk show host. Kornheiser has hosted "The Tony Kornheiser Show" on radio in various forms since 1992; co-hosted "Pardon the Interruption" on ESPN since 2001; and served as an analyst for ESPN's "Monday Night Football" since 2006. He is well known for his savage wit and sarcastic humor in print, …
- Dan Shaughnessy
Dan Shaughnessy is a sports columnist and reporter for "The Boston Globe" as well as a best selling author and television and radio sports personality. Shaughnessy grew up in Groton, Massachusetts is a graduate of the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts.
- John Feinstein
John Feinstein is an American sportswriter and commentator. He is a columnist for the "Washington Post", an author, is a guest commentator on NPR, and does color commentary for United States Naval Academy (aka "Navy") football games. He is also a frequent contributor to "The Tony Kornheiser Show" and "The Jim Rome Show". Feinstein was a sports writer for the "The Chronicle" while enrolled at Duke University, where he graduated in 1977.
- Red Smith
Walter Wellesley "Red" Smith (September 25 1905 in Green Bay, Wisconsin - January 15 1982 in Stamford, Connecticut) was an American sportswriter who rose to become America's most widely read sportswriter. Today, he is remembered as one of America's most outstanding sportswriters. After graduating from East High School in Green Bay, site of Packers home games until 1957, Smith moved on to the University of Notre Dame.
- Hunter S. Thompson
Hunter Stockton Thompson was an American journalist and author. He is credited as the creator of Gonzo journalism, a style of reporting in which the reporters involve themselves in the action to such a degree that they become the central figure of the story itself.
- Jason Whitlock
Jason Lee Whitlock (b. 27 April 1967 in Indianapolis, Indiana) is an African-American sportswriter for "The Kansas City Star" and for AOL Sports, a former contibutor to ESPN and a former radio personality for WHB and KCSP sports stations in the Kansas City area.
- Michael Wilbon
Michael Raymond Wilbon (born November 19, 1958) is an American sportswriter and columnist. He is a columnist for "The Washington Post", has co-hosted "Pardon the Interruption" on ESPN since 2001, and serves as an analyst for ESPN.
- Mike Lupica
Mike Lupica (born 1952) is an American newspaper columnist, best known for his provocative sports commentary in the "New York Daily News" and his appearances on ESPN.
- Rob Neyer
Rob Neyer is a baseball author and, since 1996, a columnist for ESPN.com. Until 2004, Neyer's work was available without subscription, but it is now part of the Insider service and can be read only upon payment. A disciple of sabermetrics legend Bill James, his column is an outlet for everyday fans to gain from the insight that statistics-centered analysis can offer. Neyer's statistical analysis often finds him at odds with other ESPN columnists, …
- Jerome Holtzman
Jerome Holtzman (born December 11, 1926 in Chicago, IL USA) is an award-winning baseball writer and since 1999 has been the official historian for Major League Baseball.
- Dan Patrick
Daniel Patrick Pugh (born May 15, 1956), better known as Dan Patrick, is an American sportscaster from Mason, Ohio. He attended the University of Dayton in Dayton, Ohio. He is employed by ESPN. Patrick was an anchor on "SportsCenter" (1989-2006). He has also hosted "The Dan Patrick Show" on ESPN Radio since September 13, 1999. Starting on March 19, 2006, until the final game of the NBA Finals, …
- David Halberstam
David Halberstam was an American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author known for his early work on the Vietnam War, his work on politics, history, business, media, American culture, and his later sports journalism.
- John Madden
John Earl Madden (born April 10, 1936) is a former National Football League player, head coach, and a Pro Football Hall-of-Famer. Madden is perhaps best known for his nearly three-decade career as a color commentator for various broadcasting networks. He was part of the iconic CBS and later Fox broadcasting duo, along with Pat Summerall in the 1980s and 1990s. He was also the last color commentator for Monday Night Football before it moved to ESPN in 2006.
- John Madden
John Earl Madden is a former American National Football League player, head coach, and a Pro Football Hall-of-Famer. Madden is perhaps best known for his nearly three-decade career as a color commentator for various broadcasting networks. He was part of the iconic CBS and later Fox broadcasting duo, along with Pat Summerall in the 1980s and 1990s. He was also the last color commentator for Monday Night Football before it moved to ESPN in 2006.
- Bob Ryan
Robert P. Ryan (born February 21, 1946 in Trenton, New Jersey) is a longtime columnist for the "Boston Globe" and a sports talk show host on the New England Sports Network. He has been described as a basketball guru and is well known for his coverage of the sport including his famous stories covering the Boston Celtics in the 1970s. After graduating from Boston College, Ryan started as a sports intern for the "Globe" on the same day as Peter Gammons.
- Jayson Stark
Jayson Stark is a sports reporter who covers baseball for ESPN. He writes columns for ESPN.com and appears frequently on "Baseball Tonight" and "SportsCenter". Prior to joining ESPN, Stark worked for "The Philadelphia Inquirer" for 21 years. He was twice named Pennsylvania's sportswriter of the year by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association.
- George Plimpton
George Ames Plimpton (March 18, 1927 - September 25, 2003) was an American journalist, writer, editor, and actor.
- J.G. Taylor Spink
John George Taylor Spink (born October 6, 1888 in St. Louis, MO USA, died December 7, 1962 was the publisher of The Sporting News from 1914 to 1962. He inherited the newspaper from his father and ran it from April 22, 1914, until his death on December 7, 1962. During his tenure, Spink expanded the paper's coverage from just baseball to include other sports, particularly boxing and football.
- Dan Jenkins
Dan Jenkins (born December 2, 1929 in Fort Worth, Texas) is an American author and sportswriter, most notably for "Sports Illustrated". Jenkins was born and raised in Fort Worth, where he attended R.L. Paschal High School and Texas Christian University. Jenkins has worked for many publications including the "Fort Worth Press, Dallas Times Herald, Sports Illustrated", and "Playboy". In 1985, he retired and began writing books full time.
- Ring Lardner
Ringgold Wilmer Lardner was an American sports columnist and short story writer best known for his satirical takes on the sports world, marriage, and the theatre.
- Jay Mariotti
Jay Mariotti (born 1961 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American sportswriter. He is currently a columnist for the "Chicago Sun-Times" and also makes regular appearances on ESPN.
- Buster Olney
Robert Stanbury "Buster" Olney III (born 17 February 1964) is a columnist for "ESPN: The Magazine", ESPN.com, and covered the New York Giants and New York Yankees for "The New York Times". He is also a regular analyst for the ESPN's "Baseball Tonight". Olney grew up on a dairy farm in Woodstock and Randolph Center, Vermont, which came in handy when he helped Mike Greenberg milked a cow on "Mike and Mike in the Morning" on June 21, 2007, …
- Jim Murray
James Patrick Murray (December 29, 1919 - August 17, 1998) was an American sportswriter at the "Los Angeles Times" from 1961 to 1998. Many of his achievements include winning the Sportswriter of the Year award fourteen times. In 1990, he won a Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for his 1989 columns, and the Baseball Hall of Fame awarded him the J.G. Taylor Spink Award in 1987.
- George Will
George Frederick Will (born May 4, 1941) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning, conservative American newspaper columnist, journalist, and author.
- David Aldridge
David Aldridge (born February 10, 1965 in Washington, D.C.) is a sports analyst for the television cable network, TNT. Aldridge is a graduate of American University and worked as a writer for "The Washington Post", where he spent nine years. During that time Aldridge was a beat writer covering Georgetown University basketball, the Washington Bullets and Washington Redskins. He also covered the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, …
- Ken Rosenthal
Ken Rosenthal is the senior Major League Baseball columnist for FoxSports.com. In 2006, he began to serve as the lead field reporter for MLB on FOX and is the field reporter for FOX's coverage of the World Series.
- Furman Bisher
Furman Bisher (born November 4, 1918) is a sports columnist for the "Atlanta Journal-Constitution", where he once served as sports editor, and is a columnist for "The Sporting News". Bisher has written for "Sports Illustrated", "The Saturday Evening Post", and many other national publications. Bisher was born in in Denton, North Carolina, and is a 1938 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- Skip Bayless
Skip Bayless (born John Edward Bayless II (August 27,1951), is a nationally syndicated sportswriter. He can be seen on ESPN2's morning sportstalk show, "ESPN First Take", and its afternoon show, "1st and 10". Bayless also wrote regular columns for ESPN.com and its "Page 2" section
- Gary Smith
Gary Smith is one of America's most acclaimed sportswriters. He is currently a senior writer for "Sports Illustrated". Smith has been called one of America's best sportswriters as well as America's best magazine writer. He has won the National Magazine Award, the magazine equivalent of the Pulitzer, three times. His pieces have also appeared in The Best American Sports Writing series more than those of any other writer.