1. Jeff Passan (1980)

American Sportswriter

Sports journalist and reporter who is known for his work as a baseball columnist for ESPN. He also wrote the New York Times Best Seller, The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery...

2. Heywood Broun (1888)

American Sportswriter

American journalist and founder of the American Newspaper Guild.

3. John Steadman (1909)

American Sportswriter

American actor who had roles in the popular films Cheech & Chong's Next Movie in 1980 and Things Are Tough All Over in 1982. His most famous role was as...

4. Art Cohn (1909)

American Sportswriter

American sportswriter, screenwriter and author who penned the screenplay to the 1953 film The Girl Who Had Everything.

5. Sid Hartman (1920)

American Sportswriter

Known for his sports journalism work for Minnesota's Star Tribune, he also managed the Minneapolis Lakers professional basketball team (which later became the famous Los Angeles Lakers team) and provided sports commentary...

6. Paul Zimmerman (1932)

American Sportswriter

American football sportswriter known by the nickname Dr. Z who wrote for Sports Illustrated and their accompanying website beginning in 1979. He served on the 44-member Pro Football Hall of...

7. Frank Deford (1938)

American Sportswriter

Wrote the novel Everybody's All-American in 1981, which was adapted into film starring Dennis Quaid. 

8. Rick Reilly (1958)

American Sportswriter

NSSA National Sportswriter of the Year winner who has his own interview show on ESPN called Homecoming with Rick Reilly.

9. Bill Plaschke (1958)

American Sportswriter

Award-winning sports journalist who began covering the Los Angeles Dodgers for the Los Angeles Times in 1987. He's been named National Sports Columnist of the Year by the Associated Press multiple times.

10. Michael Wilbon (1958)

American Sportswriter

Sports writer, commentator, and co-host of the ESPN show, Pardon the Interruption. He has covered multiple Summer and Winter Olympics through the Washington Post, along with every Super Bowl since...

11. Dan Shaughnessy (1953)

American Sportswriter

Sports writer and author known for his work with the Boston Globe, which he joined in 1981. He's also written several best-selling books about sports, including The Curse of the...

12. Tony Kornheiser (1948)

American Sportswriter

Sportswriter who started hosting The Tony Kornheiser Show on radio in 1992.

13. Chris Mortensen (1951)

American Sportswriter

ESPN NFL analyst on Sunday NFL Countdown, Monday Night Countdown, and SportsCenter.

14. Mike Lupica (1952)

American Sportswriter

Influential sports writer who began covering the New York Knicks for the New York Post when he was only 23 years old. He's also written for Esquire, Sports Illustrated, and...

15. Tim Cowlishaw (1955)

American Sportswriter

Sportswriter most famous for his appearances on the ESPN sports debate show Around the Horn. He began his career as a beat writer for the Dallas Morning News in 1989.

16. Amalie Benjamin (1982)

American Sportswriter

Sports journalist who joined NHL.com as a beat writer for the Boston Bruins after spending 12 years writing for the Boston Globe. She was a beat reporter for the Boston...

17. Kevin Blackistone (1959)

American Sportswriter

Sports journalist most famous for his appearances on the ESPN debate show Around the Horn. He has also served as a sports journalism professor at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism...

18. Brian Windhorst (1978)

American Sportswriter

Basketball journalist who became known nationally for his extensive coverage of LeBron James during the superstar's first stint with the Cleveland Cavaliers. He has written multiple books on James, including The Franchise (2007), LeBron James:...

19. Wright Thompson (1976)

American Sportswriter

Journalist for both ESPN magazine and ESPN.com. Earlier in his career, he worked as a sports reporter for the Kansas City Star and for the New Orleans Times-Picayune.

20. Zack Hample (1977)

American Sportswriter

Baseball superfan and popular YouTuber who has collected more than 9,000 baseballs from more than 50 different major league stadiums. His most notable balls are Alex Rodriguez's 3,000th hit and...

21. Michael Holley (1970)

American Sportswriter

Boston sportscaster, host of The Big Show and Celtics Now.

22. Steve Rushin (1966)

American Sportswriter

The husband of WNBA star-turned-analyst Rebecca Lobo, he wrote for Sports Illustrated.

23. Jim Dent (author) (Unknow)

American Sportswriter

Harry James Jim Dent is an American author and sportswriter. He wrote The Junction Boys a New York Times best-selling book about Bear Bryant's Junction Boys and The Kids Got...

24. Jeff Darlington (1981)

American Sportswriter

Jeff Darlington is an American sportswriter and national television field reporter covering football for the NFL Network and NFL. com. For six seasons prior to 2011 he previously covered the...

25. Christine Brennan (1958)

American Sportswriter

Christine Brennan is an American sports columnist TV and radio commentator best-selling author and nationally-known speaker. She is especially known for her coverage of the Olympics and has written three...

26. Jerry Crasnick (1958)

American Sportswriter

Jerry Crasnick is a sports writer currently covering baseball for the sports website ESPN. com. He began his career working for the Biddeford Journal Tribune in Maine as well as...

27. Steven Krasner (1953)

American Sportswriter

Steven Krasner is a retired sports journalist and current author of children's books. He is best known for covering the Boston Red Sox for The Providence Journal which he did...

28. Ray Didinger (1946)

American Sportswriter

Ray Didinger is an award-winning American sportswriter author film writer radio host TV commentator and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

29. Gregg Easterbrook (1953)

American Sportswriter

Gregg Edmund Easterbrook is an American writer and a contributing editor of both The New Republic and The Atlantic Monthly. During the National Football League season Easterbrook writes an eclectic...

30. Armen Keteyian (1953)

American Sportswriter

Armen Keteyian is an American television journalist and author. He is currently the lead correspondent for 60 Minutes Sports on Showtime and a CBS News correspondent based in New York...

31. Thom Loverro (1954)

American Sportswriter

Thomas F. Loverro is an American sportswriter. He was voted the Maryland sportswriter of the year in 2009 by the NSSA. He also co-hosts a sports talk radio show on...

32. Jay Mariotti (1959)

American Sportswriter

Jay Mariotti is the host of the Jay Mariotti Show a print and broadcast internet venture. He is a former sports columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times and panelist on the...

33. Tom Keegan (1959)

American Sportswriter

Tom Keegan is an American sportswriter and author who currently is sports editor at the Lawrence Journal-World in Lawrence Kansas. Keegan members of his staff and local TV personalities combine...

34. Franz Lidz (1951)

American Sportswriter

z Lidz is an American writer and journalist. He was a senior writer at Sports Illustrated a contributing editor at Conde Nast Portfolio and is a correspondent for Smithsonian Slate...

35. Al Carter (1952)

American Sportswriter

Albert Houston Carter Jr. is a former reporter and sports columnist for the Houston Chronicle The Dallas Morning News and other major daily newspapers in Texas and Oklahoma. His...

36. Dave Molinari (1955)

American Sportswriter

Dave Molinari is an American sports journalist for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. Molinari attended Elizabeth Forward High School and Penn State. He began his career with the McKeesport...

37. Peter Schmuck (1955)

American Sportswriter

Peter Gilray Schmuck is an American sportswriter. Peter Schmuck has been a reporter and sports columnist for the Baltimore Sun since 1990 and has been named Maryland Sportswriter of the...

38. Terry Pluto (1955)

American Sportswriter

Terry Pluto is an American sportswriter newspaper columnist and author who primarily writes columns for The Plain Dealer and formerly for the Akron Beacon Journal about Cleveland Ohio sports and...

39. Mike Florio (1965)

American Sportswriter

Mike Florio is an American sportswriter. He writes for Profootballtalk. com which he created and owns. Florio is also a contributor to NBC's Sunday night NFL studio show Football Night...

40. Alan Schwarz (1968)

American Sportswriter

Alan Schwarz is a Pulitzer Prize-nominated National Correspondent at The New York Times best known for writing more than 100 articles that exposed the seriousness of concussions among football players...

41. David Haugh (1968)

American Sportswriter

David Haugh is a sports columnist with the Chicago Tribune. He began his career at the South Bend Tribune in Indiana working there for nearly a decade before joining the...

42. John Sickels (1968)

American Sportswriter

John Sickels is an American baseball writer who specializes in minor league baseball and amateur baseball.

43. Jackie MacMullan (1960)

American Sportswriter

Jackie Mac MacMullan is an American freelance newspaper sportswriter and NBA columnist for the sports website ESPN. com. A graduate of the University of New Hampshire where she played Division...

44. Phil Steele (1961)

American Sportswriter

Phil Steele is an American sportswriter and analyst who focuses exclusively on college and professional football. He currently writes a column for the Orlando Sentinel and is considered a highly...

45. Peter King (sportswriter) (1957)

American Sportswriter

Peter King is an American sportswriter. He writes for Sports Illustrated including the weekly multiple-page column Monday Morning Quarterback. He is the author of five books including Inside the Helmet.

46. J. A. Adande (1970)

American Sportswriter

J. A. Adande is an American sports columnist who covers the Basketball Association for ESPN. com. He also serves as a panelist for ESPN's Around the Horn and as a...

47. John Hollinger (1971)

American Sportswriter

John Hollinger is the Vice President of Basketball Operations for the Memphis Grizzlies. Prior to December 2012 he was an analyst and writer for ESPN primarily covering the NBA. Hollinger...

48. Stanley Weston (1919)

American Sportswriter

Stanley Weston was a prolific American sportswriter and sports photographer. He promoted the sport of boxing in innumerable ways throughout his career. Weston was inducted into the International Boxing Hall...

49. Mike Wise (American columnist) (1964)

American Sportswriter

Mike Wise is a sports columnist and feature writer for The Washington Post.

50. Bill Madden (sportswriter) (Unknow)

American Sportswriter

Bill Madden is an American sportswriter for the New York Daily News.