* Hugh S. Delano ( born 1933 ), Sports journalist for the New York Post and author honored by induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame with the Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award.

* Ron Fimrite ( 1949 )-humorist, historian, author and sportswriter, best known for his 34-year career as a journalist for Sports Illustrated

* Bill Pennington – Sports reporter for The New York Times and author of multiple books.

Mr. Met was portrayed from 1994 through 1997 by AJ Mass, currently a fantasy sports writer for ESPN and author of the book How Fantasy Sports Explains the World, published in August 2011.

Out of many waterfalls in the Bernese Oberland, the Reichenbach Falls seems to have made the greatest impression on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the author of the Sherlock Holmes stories, who was shown them one Swiss holiday by his host and founder of Lunn Poly and the Public Schools Alpine Sports Club ( later the Alpine Ski Club ), Sir Henry Lunn.

In July 2011, HBO Sports premiered The Curious Case of Curt Flood, an in-depth documentary account of Flood's personal life and career that features dozens of interviewees, including Flood biographer Brad Snyder, author of 2007's A Well-Paid Slave.

* Ali Gümüş, President of Association Internationale De La Presse Sportive ( International Sports Press Asssociation, or AIPS ) Wrestling Commission, Journalist and author.

In 2003 he became the first author to win the Cricket Society's Book of the Year award three times, and was also a finalist in the William Hill Sports Book awards for his Bodyline Autopsy.

Notable Loyola alumni include: Mark Bowden, 1999 National Book Award finalist for Black Hawk Down ; Tom Clancy, best selling author of the Jack Ryan series of novels ; Michael D. Griffin, former Administrator ( highest-ranked official ) of NASA ; Harry Markopolos, financial investigator who sounded the alarm about the Bernie Madoff ponzi scheme ; Jim McKay, former twelve time Emmy-Award winning host of ABC's Wide World of Sports ; and Herbert O ' Conor, 51st Governor of Maryland, Nick Brown, a journalist covering bankruptcy for Thomson Reuters who has broken several major stories including ones on TerreStar Corporation, as well as other prominent government, religious, literary and business leaders.

The first known timing belt was used in 1954 in the Devin Sports Car that won the Sports Car Club of America ( SCCA ) National Championship in 1956 ( See May 1957 article in Sports Cars Illustrated, author O. C. Rich ).

He is the author, with sportswriter Dave Zirin, of The John Carlos Story: The Sports Moment That Changed the World, published in 2011 by Haymarket Books.

Pat O ' Brien ( born February 14, 1948 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota ) is currently a radio host with Fox Sports Radio as well as an author.

He is the author of the billiards guide Pool Cool ( 1990 ), the travelogue Road Swing: One Fan's Journey Into the Soul of America's Sports ( 1998 ), the collection The Caddie Was a Reindeer ( 2004 ) and the novel The Pint Man ( 2010 ).

In the 1960s a small group of scientists, fishermen and concerned citizens led by Robert H. Boyle, author of The Hudson River, A Natural and Unnatural History and a senior writer at Sports Illustrated, were determined to reverse the decline of the then-polluted Hudson River by confronting the polluters through citizen enforcement of public use rights and democratic ecological governance.

Kilmeade is the author of The Games Do Count: America's Best and Brightest on the Power of Sports and It's How You Play the Game.

He is the author of a highly critical biography of Tony Blair's former spin doctor Alastair Campbell and, in a different vein and contrast, a generous biography of the cricketer Basil D ' Oliveira ( for which he won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year in 2004 ) whose selection for England to tour South Africa in 1968 caused that country's apartheid regime to cancel the tour.

Sports author Maury Allen is quoted as saying, " Fritz's book is even better than Bouton's Ball Four.

The following inductees have also been elected to the Philadelphia Sports Hall of Fame: Richie Ashburn, Steve Carlton, Robin Roberts, Mike Schmidt, broadcaster Harry Kalas, Grover Cleveland Alexander, Del Ennis, Chuck Klein, Ed Delahanty, Larry Bowa, Tug McGraw, and Dick Allen.

Brent Musburger hosted all the events with help from his then-fellow cast members of The NFL Today Irv Cross, Dick Butkus and Will McDonough, then-CBS Sports analysts Terry Bradshaw, Ken Stabler and Dan Fouts, and then-Chicago Bears head coach Mike Ditka.

Brent Musburger hosted all the events with the help of then-ABC Sports analysts Bob Griese and Dick Vermeil, Musburger's regular color commentator on ABC's college football telecasts.

Brent Musburger hosted all the events with the help of then-ABC Sports analyst Dick Vermeil, Musburger's regular color commentator on ABC's college football telecasts, and then-New York Jets quarterback Boomer Esiason.

They signed a huge contract to broadcast the NFC, which included luring Pat Summerall, John Madden, Dick Stockton, Matt Millen, James Brown, and Terry Bradshaw ( as well as many behind-the-scenes production personnel ) from CBS Sports as well.

That version became the longtime theme for the TV quiz Sports Challenge, hosted by Dick Enberg.

In addition to these individual games, TVS was a pioneer in bringing college basketball to a national scope-first by their own efforts in the early 1970s, primarily with Dick Enberg and Rod Hundley ( sometimes Enberg and Hundley would call a Pac-8 game on a Friday night, fly to the midwest for the TVS game of the week on Saturday afternoon, and then head back to the west coast to call a Pac-8 game on Saturday night ), then in 1976, teaming with NBC Sports in a cooperative effort to regionalize NBC's coverage ( NBC / local talent, TVS production crews ).

Sports personalities Van Miller, Stan Barron and Dick Rifenburg shared various duties, including hosting and interview programs ; while familiar news voices Jack Ogilvie, Gene Kelley, Lou Douglas, Virgil Booth and others were heard during this period.

Stan Barron returned to the station, bringing back his " Free-Form Sports " program, and overnights eventually shifted from Dick Rifenburg's music show to Mutual's syndicated Larry King talk show.

With the top bid of $ 50, 000, Dick Ebersol, president of NBC Sports and a friend of Simon, won the right to know the name of the person " You're So Vain " was written about.

In 1968, Hughes Tool purchased Sports Network Incorporated and renamed it the Hughes Television Network, with Dick Bailey continuing as president.

Duncan " Dick " Ebersol (; born July 28, 1947 ) is an American television executive and a senior adviser for NBC Universal Sports & Olympics.

On May 19, 2011, Dick Ebersol resigned from NBC Sports.

NBC Sports chairman Dick Ebersol added that it wasn't cost-effective for NBC to be putting out the kind of money that Major League Baseball wanted.

* Dick Stockton, sportscaster for Fox and Turner Sports

In November 2007, Auriemma was inducted into the National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame, in a class that included Dick Vermeil, Mike Scioscia, Fred Couples, and others.

Also in 2002, he was inducted into the Nassau County Sports Hall of Fame, which created the Dick Schaap Award for Outstanding Journalism.

The Sports Emmy division of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences renamed their writing category " The Dick Schaap Outstanding Writing Award.

* " The Grammar School Boys Snowbound ; or, Dick & Co. at Winter Sports " 1911, Altemus.

He also hosts an hour long weekly sports show called Bay Sports with Dick Crippen on Bright House Sports Network ( Bright House Networks channel 47 ).

* Bay Sports with Dick Crippen

The speedway Board of Directors when the track opened consisted of Chairman Dan Lufkin, of Donaldson, Lufkin, Jenrette ; CEO David Lockton ; Donald Riehl, of DLJ ; William Loorz, CEO of Stolte Construction ; Paul Newman, Kirk Douglas, and Dick Smothers from the entertainment industry ; J. C. Agajanian, an American motor sport promoter and race car owner ; Parnelli Jones, 1963 winner of the Indianapolis 500 ; Roger Penske, retired race car driver, race car owner and auto related business entrepreneur ; Briggs Cunningham, an American sportsman who raced cars and yachts ; and Chuck Barnes, Chairman and CEO of Sports Headliners, and former Director of Public Relations for Firestone Tires.

Kay was also awarded the Dick Young Award for Excellence in Sports Media by the New York Pro Baseball Scouts in 1995 and the award for Best Sports Reporter at the 2000 New York Metro Achievement in Radio Awards.

In March 1981, Dan Okrent wrote an essay about the Rotisserie League for Inside Sports called " The Year George Foster Wasn't Worth $ 36.

American marathon runner Kenny Moore, who wrote about the incident for Sports Illustrated, quoted Dutch distance runner Jos Hermens as saying, “ You give a party, and someone is killed at the party, you don't continue the party.

In his autobiography, From Jerusalem to Munich, first published in France in 1999, and later in a written interview with Sports Illustrated, Abu Daoud wrote that funds for Munich were provided by Mahmoud Abbas, Chairman of the PLO since 11 November 2004 and President of the Palestinian National Authority since 15 January 2005.

Sports Illustrateds Joe Posnanski wrote, " There has never been a pitcher in baseball history — not Walter Johnson, not Lefty Grove, not Sandy Koufax, not Tom Seaver, not Roger Clemens — who was more overwhelming than the young Pedro.

After the war, he decided not to join the newly founded Finnish Workers ' Sports Federation, but wrote articles for the federation's chief organ and criticized the discrimination against many of his fellow workers and athletes.

His appearance astonished the spectators, and Sports Illustrated wrote that " his celebrated stride was unmistakable to the crowd.

He wrote for a diverse range of pulp magazines, including Baseball Stories, Big Book Football Western, Fighting Western, Football Stories, Lariat Stories, Ace Sports, SuperScience, Northwest Romances, Thrilling Western, and Ranch Romances for a number of publishing companies.

In the March 17, 2003 edition of Sports Illustrated, columnist Frank Deford wrote an article entitled " The Rise and Fall of Kirby Puckett ", that documented Puckett's alleged indiscretions and attempted to contrast his private image with the much-revered public image he had previously maintained.

On November 14, 1977 ( and continued on November 21, 1977 ), Author Bil Gilbert wrote a long feature story in Sports Illustrated on the impact of high school football on life in a small town.

In the Tower Prynne wrote and published anonymous tracts against episcopacy and against the Book of Sports.

Frank Deford wrote colorfully about the famous kitchen brawl in his Sports Illustrated story " The Boxer and the Blond ".

* ESPN the Magazines Senior Editor Steve Wulf used to live in Norwich and wrote about coming back in a 1993 Issue of Sports Illustrated

" Kalani Simpson of Fox Sports wrote, " Nice try Heisman Trust ... It's a slick move to try to wipe the slate clean.

Vincent wrote in the April 24, 2006 issue of Sports Illustrated, that with most of Bonds ' official troubles being off the field, and with the strength of the players ' union, there was little Bud Selig could do beyond appointing an investigating committee.

On December 23, 2004, Sports Illustrated wrote in its ' The 10 Spot ' feature that the AFL's players ' union filed a grievance against the Storm.

As Francisco Rodríguez pursued the single-season saves record in 2008, Baseball Prospectus member Joe Sheehan, Sports Illustrated writer Tom Verducci, and The New York Sun writer Tim Marchman wrote that Rodríguez's save total was enhanced by the number of opportunities his team presented, allowing him to amass one particular statistic.

Sports Illustrated's Joe Posnanski wrote of Perry, " My favorite trick pitch of his was the old Puffball, where he would load up on rosin so that a puff of white smoke would release while he threw his pitches.

In 1977 Sports Illustrated's senior writer and Olympic marathoner Kenny Moore wrote a feature story about the race.

Mac Davis wrote in 100 Greatest Sports Heroes, " As the idol of millions in the United States, Canada and Mexico, Gotch made wrestling a big-time sport in his day.

Sports columnist Joe Williams wrote in December 1936, " For $ 7500 the Cleveland Indians received $ 500, 000 worth of publicity.

In May 1981, Okrent wrote and Sports Illustrated published He Does It by the Numbers.

" Most males in the 1940s and 1950s did not have to be told that the Cavalcade of Sports meant Gillette was sponsoring another ball game or horse race ," wrote Gordon McKibben in his Gillette history, Cutting Edge.

During the season, Sports Stars wrote: " The Big Bear, on the other hand, using a rather lazy, deceptively leisurely motion, would be content to cut down American League batters four days out of the week, and twice on Sundays.

Ralph Wiley ( April 12, 1952 – June 13, 2004 ) was a sports journalist who wrote for various publications such as Sports Illustrated and espn. com's Page 2 section.