The News Review:
- To Halberstam sports was never a step down
- A daily glance inside the numbers from the world of sports:
- King Kaufman’s Sports Daily
- Transsexual sports writer changes byline
To Halberstam sports was never a step down
ESPN – Apr 27, 2007
Many sportswriters aspire to “more serious” work but Halberstam was a writer who happily moved in the opposite direction. He’d won his Pulitzer and established himself writing about civil rights politics and war then chose to spend a significant amount of the balance of his career writing about sports. He came to the field in the late ’70s at a time when all of sports was being viewed with greater gravity; and the best sportswriters — from Dan Jenkins and Frank Deford in Sports Illustrated to Jim Murray in the Los Angeles Times — showed an awareness of the larger world beyond the one in which the games were played. As the Time editor Ray Cave once put it “All of a sudden you could read a sports magazine and still be considered able to read for starters.
A daily glance inside the numbers from the world of sports:
ESPN – Apr 27, 2007
By Elias Sports Bureau Inc. Special to ESPN InsiderA daily glance inside the numbers from the world of sports:NBA• The Heat’s 104-96 home loss to the Bulls left Chicago with a commanding three-zip lead in the best-of-seven series. And it left Miami in a situation never before faced by a defending NBA champion: the Heat is the first team to lose its first three playoff games the year after winning the NBA title. • Pat Riley’s all-time NBA playoff coaching record breaks down this way: He’s 157-87 (. 643) in playoff games against all teams except the Bulls but he’s just 14-23 (. 378) in 37 games against the Bulls.
King Kaufman’s Sports Daily
salon.com – Apr 27, 2007
Bloody Sockgate is behind us. ur long national nightmare is over. We can all rest assured that Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling’s bloody socks in the 2004 American League Championship Series and. I think the lesson we can take from this incident which shook Red Sox Nation — forcing Hub fans to actually spend work time discussing it! — is that I got into the wrong business. You get on the radio or TV you can say whatever you want and as long as it’s not.
Transsexual sports writer changes byline
NEWS.com.au – Apr 27, 2007
article-tools –> From correspondents in Los Angeles April 27 2007 12:52pm Sports writer changes identity to Christine DanielsAnnounces transsexualism in this week’s columnFuture articles will be written under the new name AFTER years of agonising over his gender identity a senior Los Angeles Times journalist announced in a column today that he is a transsexual. Mike Penner who has worked in the Times sports department for 23 years said he is taking on a new identity as a woman and readers will now see his stories under the byline Christine Daniels. "Everyone who knows me and my work will be transitioning as well" Penner said. "That will take time. And that’s all right.
