sportswriter

[ spawrts-rahy-ter, spohrts- ]

noun

1. a journalist who reports on sports sports and sporting events.

Other Words From

• sportswriting noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of sportswriter¹

First recorded in 1900–05; sports + writer

Example Sentences

Nobody kicked me out, nor did any sportswriter write about me being there.

From Los Angeles Times

Rose became our most ordinary extraordinary athlete — and sportswriters loved him for it.

From Los Angeles Times

As Democrats proclaim victory in what sportswriter David Zirin calls “the football wars,” they miss something sinister about what has made the sport the way it is — long before their efforts to co-opt it.

From Salon

He doesn’t need a sportswriter to rank him on any list.

From Los Angeles Times

But he had three sons who played football and every time he got to talk to a sportswriter it was better than standing at the White House press podium.

From Los Angeles Times