sports columnist
Game analysis writer
A sports columnist is a journalist who writes regular opinion pieces about sports for a newspaper, magazine, or website.
Unlike reporters who cover games and events, columnists offer analysis, commentary, and personal takes on athletes, teams, and the broader sports world: The sports columnist predicted the coach wouldn't last the season.
- sportswriterReporter covering athletic events
- beat writerFifties countercultural prose stylist
- journalistNews profession practitioner
- punditProfessional opinion-giver
- commentatorBroadcast analyst or narrator
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- press writersjournalist, reporter, correspondent, editor, contributor
- columnistsop-ed writer, opinion writer, editorialist, editorial writer
- sports mediaplay-by-play, Bob Costas, commentary, Dick Vitale, interview
- sports commentatorscolor commentator, TV analyst, studio analyst, play-by-play announcer, play-by-play
sports columnistsports broadcaster
Narrates athletic events live
play-by-play announcer · sports anchor · color commentator · sideline reporter · sportscaster
sports columnistpolitical columnist
Journalist covering governance
food critic · fashion columnist · science writer · advice columnist · gossip columnist
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