Read more sports writer stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/37962/sports-writer.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 12:14:41 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/58783/web-didnt-kill-sportswriting-lame-humorless-writers-did.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWhen the working day is done, sportswriters just wanna have fun—or at least they did 50 years ago, when hot-type dinosaurs like Gary Cartwright and his gonzo cohorts roamed Dallas in capes and leotards pretending to be Italian acrobats. But today’s mirthless philistines are doing more to butcher sportswriting...http://www.newser.com/story/58783/web-didnt-kill-sportswriting-lame-humorless-writers-did.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 14 May 2009 10:01:47 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/55480/newspaper-cuts-are-emptying-out-press-boxes.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe independent baseball beat writer could be a dying profession as newspapers look to trim costs, the Wall Street Journal reports. In baseball-crazy cities like New York and Boston, not much is likely to change. "It would be suicide, quite honestly," says a Red Sox writer for the Globe . But...http://www.newser.com/story/55480/newspaper-cuts-are-emptying-out-press-boxes.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 07 Apr 2009 9:56:07 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/49139/updike-an-author-hoping-to-talk-to-america.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagJohn Updike, who died today at 76, was many things: Bob Ryan, in the Boston Globe , calls him the author of the “most spellbinding essay ever written about baseball.” For Carolyn Kellogg, in the Los Angeles Times , the first line of his story A&P displays a “durability that authors can...http://www.newser.com/story/49139/updike-an-author-hoping-to-talk-to-america.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 27 Jan 2009 15:44:02 CST