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81-755: The National Sports Media Association ( NSMA ), formerly the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association , is an organization of sports media members in the United States, and constitutes the American chapter of the International Sports Press Association (AIPS). Winston-Salem, North Carolina now serves as the headquarters for the NSMA, which is responsible for the organizing and counting of all

162-524: A consultant to organizers of major events who need guidance on media requirements as well as seeking to represent its members' interests in a range of activities. In March 2008, Martin Samuel , then the chief football correspondent of The Times , was named British Sportswriter of the Year, the first time any journalist had won the award three years in succession. At the same awards, Jeff Stelling , of Sky Sports,

243-489: A location, but when he saw the branch of the failed bank in 1990, he made an offer which was accepted. The goal was to open the museum by 1992. A 23-foot sculpture of two eagles was moved from the bank to Charlotte Motor Speedway , but people wanted the eagles back, so they were returned and local people donated their services to put the eagles back and get the building ready. An opening reception and dedication took place in 1991. But due to lack of funding, it took ten years for

324-579: A majority stake in VantageSouth. On October 5, 2011, it was announced that Piedmont would buy VantageSouth, which had two branches in Burlington, $ 91 million in assets and $ 73 million in deposits, and that the company would take the name VantageSouth. Piedmont had a controlling interest in VantageSouth and in Salisbury, North Carolina –based Community Bank of Rowan , which would also merge with

405-528: A mortgage broker (Sidus Financial LLC in October 2004), as well as opening new branch locations. Piedmont Bank and High Country Bank were reorganized as divisions of Yadkin Valley Bank but maintained their names and logos. Sidus remained as a wholly owned subsidiary. Yadkin Valley Bank and its divisions operated 23 full-service branch locations. As of December 31, 2005, the company achieved a milestone in

486-585: A ping-pong ball." The Hall of Fame opened officially on May 1, 2000 in the two-story, 10,000-square-foot former North Carolina Federal Savings and Loan building at 322 East Innes Street in Salisbury. When Claude Hampton became NSSA director, he was told the Hall of Fame was nothing more than a desk drawer with folders in the Chamber of Commerce building. He wanted an actual building and considered Catawba College as

567-452: A reception at its new office in 1,900 square feet at 325 Lee Street in Salisbury. The warehouse only included a few items such as shoes autographed by Ralph Sampson and a football signed by Berman; the rest remained in storage. The NSSA has since moved to Summit Avenue in Salisbury, on the campus of Catawba College. At the 54th annual program in June 2013, Dan Patrick of ESPN Radio received

648-407: A very fast and convenient way to access sports news on the go no matter where you are. The applications on smartphones that contain information about sports news and events are generally free. Fans ability to access sports on their smartphones allows them to personally engage (i.e. fantasy sports) and/or absorb sports information. Smartphones have truly increased the spread of sports news, typically in

729-464: Is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, which seeks to develop educational opportunities for those who are interested in pursuing a career in sports media, through networking, interning, mentoring, and scholarship programs. The NSMA also honors, preserves, and celebrates the diverse legacy of sports media in the United States. The Paul "Bear" Bryant Award is an award that has been given annually since 1986 to NCAA college football 's national coach of

810-779: Is also home to the Associated Press Sports Editors. In more recent years, sports journalism has turned its attention to online news and press release media and provided services to Associated Press and other major news syndication services. Through the 1970s and 1980s, a rise in "citizen journalism" in Europe was witnessed in the rapid growth in popularity of soccer "fanzines" - cheaply printed magazines written by fans for fans that bypassed often stilted official club match programs and traditional media. Many continue today and thrive. Some authors, such as Jim Munro , have been adopted by their clubs. Once an editor of

891-565: Is named for Clarence Gaines , the former head coach of Winston-Salem State University . For a list of winners, see footnote Jim Murray , writing for the Los Angeles Times , won the National Sportswriter of the Year award a record 14 times, including 12 years in succession from 1966 to 1977. More recently, Rick Reilly , writing for Sports Illustrated and ESPN , has won 11 awards. See footnote Each spring,

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972-404: Is often accessible on various applications on the smartphone. These apps include ESPN, Bleacher Report, Global Sports Media, House of Highlights, and YouTube. The rise of mobile streaming has led to approximately 65% of sports followers streaming sports on a mobile device. Smartphones also allow for 24 hour access to sports news via social media apps such as Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook. They are

1053-554: The FA Cup and England international matches from the BBC to rival broadcasters ITV. One of the reasons cited was that the BBC had been too critical of the performances of the England football team . Increasingly, sports journalists have turned to long-form writing , producing popular books on a range of sporting topics, including biographies, history and investigations. Dan Topolski was

1134-701: The IAAF , the international track and field body. The first statutes of AIPS mentioned these objectives: For horse racing the Horserace Writers and Photographers’ Association was founded in 1927, was revived in 1967, and represents the interests of racing journalists in every branch of the media. In Britain, the Sports Journalists' Association was founded in 1948. It stages two awards events, an annual Sports Awards ceremony which recognizes outstanding performances by British sportsmen and women during

1215-559: The West Ham United fanzine Fortune's Always Dreaming , Munro was hired by the club to write for its matchday magazine and is now sports editor of The Sun Online. Other titles, such as the irreverent monthly soccer magazine When Saturday Comes , have effectively gone mainstream. The advent of the Internet has seen much of this fan-generated energy directed into sports blogs. Ranging from team-centric blogs to those that cover

1296-526: The White City Stadium to cover the finish of the Marathon . Such was the drama of that race, in which Dorando Pietri collapsed within sight of the finishing line when leading, that Conan Doyle led a public subscription campaign to see the gallant Italian, having been denied the gold medal through his disqualification, awarded a special silver cup, which was presented by Queen Alexandra . And

1377-491: The "Golden Age of American Sports". Baseball became the national pastime, college football became popular, and radio and newspaper coverage increased. The New York Herald was the first newspapers to publishing consistent sports coverage. The New York World in 1883 was the first newspaper to have a full times sports department. The following period from 1880 to 1920 saw a massive increase in sports coverage in publications. A study showed that in 1880 only 0.4 percent of space in

1458-542: The 1820s and 1830s, the primary demographic target for newspapers was the social elite as newspaper was too expensive for the common man. Approaching the 20th century, several important changes occurred that lead to the increased saturation of sports journalism in the mainstream . The first was the advent of the penny press which allowed for cheaper and more tabloid style of newspaper production. Newspapers also began using advertising to pay for their production costs instead of relying on circulation. The 1920s has been called

1539-627: The Innes Street location, opening its headquarters there in 2006. This required the NSSA to move to a temporary location on North Main Street in Salisbury, but visitors would not be allowed. Veteran sports journalist Dave Goren, best known as sports director at WXII-TV in Winston-Salem, North Carolina , became NSSA executive director September 1, 2009. On December 1 of that year, the NSSA held

1620-456: The NSMA Hall of Fame inducts one or more new members. There were not any inductees in 1965, 1966, 1968, and 2006. Sports journalism Modern sports journalism found its roots as content started to appear in newspapers in the early 1800s. At the start, the sports sporadically covered were horse racing and boxing. The focus of the coverage would be less on the event itself and more on

1701-549: The NSSA celebrated its 31st Annual Awards Program, with Chris Berman of ESPN being selected as Sportscaster of the Year and Peter Gammons receiving the honor as Sportswriter of the Year. The Hall of Fame inductees were Dave Anderson , Pulitzer Prize winner from The New York Times , and Jack Buck , the long-time radio voice of the St. Louis Cardinals and a radio and television sportscaster for CBS . Though located in Salisbury, "the NSSA office itself has bounced around town like

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1782-743: The New York Yankees for not allowing her to interview players in the locker room during the 1977 World Series. A federal judge ruled that this ban was in violation of the Equal Protection Clause in the 14th Amendment. Some female reporters include Adeline Daley (whom some consider the "Jackie Robinson of female sportswriters" ), Anita Martini , Mary Garber , Lesley Visser , Marjorie Herrera Lewis , Sally Jenkins , and Holly Rowe . Yadkin Financial Yadkin Financial Corporation

1863-711: The No. 1 Female Sportscaster of all time. There has been an ongoing debate as to whether or not female reporters should be allowed in the locker rooms after games. If they are denied access, this gives male reporters a competitive advantage in the field, as they can interview players in the locker room after games. If locker room access is denied to all reporters - male and female - because of this controversy, male journalists would likely resent female reporters for having their access taken away. It wasn't until 1978 that female sports journalists were allowed to enter locker rooms for interviews. Sports Illustrated reporter, Melissa Ludtke, sued

1944-485: The Olympics and one on FIFA , the world football body. Likewise, award-winning writers Duncan Mackay , of The Guardian , and Steven Downes unravelled many scandals involving doping, fixed races and bribery in international athletics in their 1996 book, Running Scared , which offered an account of the threats by a senior track official that led to the suicide of their sports journalist colleague, Cliff Temple . But

2025-595: The Year Awards in 2010, with the first presentation occurring in 2011. The awards are presented to two head coaches – one in NCAA Division I and one in Division II – at the annual NSMA awards banquet. The purpose of the award is to recognize coaches who might not receive recognition from "mainstream outlets." An NSMA committee votes after the end of the men's and women's championship tournaments. The award

2106-565: The analysis these teams are conducting. New metrics have been created to study the quality of player performance. The metrics have also been used to compile rankings of players and teams. Blog sites like FiveThirtyEight began to sprout as full-time sport analytic sites that took available data and constructed analytic heavy articles pertaining to sports. ESPN has implemented a segment in their shows called ‘Sports Science’ where stars of every sport come in to test how advanced analytics affect field performance. There has been much pushback by many over

2187-492: The award as National Sportscaster of the Year with Peter King of Sports Illustrated honored as National Sportswriter of the Year. The Hall of Fame inductees were Mitch Albom and Dick Vitale . In June 2014, hockey broadcaster Mike "Doc" Emrick was voted National Sportscaster of the Year, with King repeating as National Sportswriter of the Year. Inducted into the Hall of Fame were sportscaster Marv Albert and sportswriter Rick Reilly . Emrick and writer Tom Verducci were

2268-558: The ballots for the National, State (49 states plus D.C.), and Hall of Fame winners. The organization had been based in Salisbury, North Carolina until 2017. There are now more than 100 inductees in the Hall of Fame. The organization plans and funds the Annual Awards Program. Former television sportscaster Dave Goren serves as the NSMA's executive director. The National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association (NSSA)

2349-589: The bank's history by reaching the US$ 1 billion mark in total assets for the first time. On July 1, 2006, the company reorganized into a holding company, becoming Yadkin Valley Financial Corporation. Yadkin Valley Bank announced in June 2007 that it was buying Cardinal State Bank of Durham, North Carolina . The purchase is the bank's first entry into the Triangle market. The completion of

2430-588: The board. Yadkin will have $ 4 billion in assets, $ 3.2 billion in deposits, The completion of the merger happened July 4 and the VantageSouth disappeared. Signs were to be changed by September. On March 1, 2016, Yadkin Financial and NewBridge Bancorp completed a $ 456 million deal, which gave Yadkin $ 7.3 billion in assets and 110 branches. Yadkin had few branches in the Piedmont Triad , where NewBridge had most of its locations. Even before changing

2511-479: The building to actually open. Until then, hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of memorabilia were stored in boxes. With the Hall of Fame open, visitors could hear Babe Ruth 's called shot , Hank Aaron 's 715th home run , the Ice Bowl , the 1992 Duke-Kentucky game , and young Tiger Woods on The Mike Douglas Show . On November 1, 2005, Community Bank of Rowan (later part of Yadkin Financial ) purchased

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2592-505: The company. On October 24, 2011, Piedmont announced it would acquire a controlling interest in Cary, North Carolina –based Crescent Financial Bancshares, parent of Crescent State Bank. Abram would become Crescent chairman, and Piedmont president and former RBC Bank CEO Scott Custer would be Crescent CEO. In August 2012, Crescent announced a merger with VantageSouth, which had five branches and $ 260.7 million in assets as of September 30 and

2673-676: The contributors. This can lead to a lack of quality as there is no editorial element, however their reach is large. There are also editorially managed sites that do pay their contributors in a similar fashion to traditional publishers. I.e. a price per word or per article. Examples of these are Athlon Sports and The Sporting Blog. Other sports blogs such as Fansided and SB Nation suggest a combination of traffic and results based incentives with regards to recompense for contributions. More recently, investment vehicles like Rocket Sports Internet have emerged that provide capital for sports journalists and news creators to run their own businesses and leverage

2754-585: The country. The Tour de France was born, and sports journalism's role in its foundation is still reflected today in the leading rider wearing a yellow jersey - the color of the paper on which L'Auto was published (in Italy, the Giro d'Italia established a similar tradition, with the leading rider wearing a jersey the same pink color as the sponsoring newspaper, La Gazzetta ). After the Second World War,

2835-416: The creation of journals like Sports Illustrated , first published in 1954, was one of the first publications to solely focus on sports. Sports Illustrated was the brainchild of Henry Lucre who felt that the established publishers at the time were not taking advantage of the public's massive appetite for sports. With weekly issues, Sports Illustrated was able to produce more classic journalistic pieces as

2916-529: The day and closer to the deadlines many organizations must observe. Yet they are expected to use the same tools as news journalists, and to uphold the same professional and ethical standards. They must take care not to show bias for any team. Twitter and other social media platforms became sports information providers. Twitter became a platform for sports in 2009 during the NBA playoffs. By the end of April, tweeting by television sports analysts, announcers, and journalists

2997-893: The deal gave Yadkin Valley 28 branches in 11 North Carolina counties. Yadkin Valley Bank acquired American Community Bank of Monroe, North Carolina , in 2009. As of May 28, 2013, all of the banks Yadkin Valley had acquired would have one name, Yadkin Bank. The holding company also changed names to Yadkin Financial Corporation. With $ 1.9 billion in assets and 36 branches, Yadkin Valley Bank would become Yadkin Bank and its NASDAQ symbol would change from YAVY to YDKN. In 2005, VantageSouth began in Burlington, North Carolina . In 2009, J. Adam Abram and Steven Lerner started Piedmont Community Bank Holdings. In 2010, Piedmont bought

3078-449: The digital space which has increased advertising revenue has not balanced out the losses from print journalism. The importance of click count has gone up as these sites are being funded by online advertisers. This has led to many shorter journalistic pieces offering controversial opinions in order to generate the most clicks. Sportswriters regularly face more deadline pressure than other reporters because sporting events tend to occur late in

3159-703: The editors of the Wisden cricket almanac, and Hayters . Sportswriting in Britain has attracted some of the finest journalistic talents. The Daily Mirror' s Peter Wilson, Hugh McIlvanney , first at The Observer and lately at the Sunday Times , Ian Wooldridge of the Daily Mail and soccer writer Brian Glanville , best known at the Sunday Times , and columnist Patrick Collins, of the Mail on Sunday , five times

3240-498: The ethics of his actions. Kaepernick cites that his position as a quarterback in the National Football League gives him a unique opportunity to carry out his message. Kaepernick's actions have inspired a wave of athletes using their position to take on social issues ranging from abortion to college athletes getting monetary compensation. Sports journalism plays a significant role in how these views are conveyed to

3321-527: The first mass spectator event for journalistic coverage. The Race, an annual rowing event between the University of Cambridge and University of Oxford , has been held annually from 1856. Cricket , possibly because of its esteemed place in society, has regularly attracted the most elegant of writers. The Manchester Guardian , in the first half of the 20th century, employed Neville Cardus as its cricket correspondent as well as its music critic. Cardus

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3402-634: The first recipient of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award in 1989, which has continued to reward authors for their excellence in sports literature. Most countries have their own national association of sports journalists . Many sports also have their own clubs and associations for specified journalists. These organizations attempt to maintain the standard of press provision at sports venues, to oversee fair accreditation procedures and to celebrate high standards of sports journalism. The International Sports Press Association, AIPS,

3483-477: The form of videos, highlights, scores, and articles. Applications on smartphones, especially Twitter and ESPN, tend to be the platforms where sports breaking news first emerge. Overall, smartphones provide readily available sports news that can be accessed during the course of a sports fan's everyday life. Women have not always been in the sports reporting field. Women such as Jane Chastain and Lesley Visser are considered pioneers in women's sportscasting. Chastain

3564-785: The fourth-largest bank headquartered in the state, with $ 4 billion in assets and $ 3.2 billion in deposits. The company was headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina , with banking operations based in Statesville, North Carolina . The original bank was opened in 1968. However, in three years Yadkin Valley Bank grew significantly by the acquisition of two other regional banks (Main Street Bankshares, Inc. in June 2002, operating as "Piedmont Bank", and High Country Financial Corporation in January 2004, operating as "High Country Bank") and

3645-526: The greater social context. Horse races between the North and South and boxing bouts between US and England garnered much interest from the social elite. In the early nineteenth century, popular British sportswriter Pierce Egan coined the term "the Sweet Science" as an epithet for prizefighting — or more fully "the Sweet Science of Bruising" as a description of England's bare-knuckle fight scene. During

3726-478: The increasing number of ways that creators can more easily generate revenue streams outside of the conventional organisational structures. Early successes include BenchWarmers, Empire of the Kop and caughtoffside. The rise of smartphones have recently taken off and altered the way sports media has been presented. Smartphones have had a big influence on how the public perceives sports entertainment and content. Sports media

3807-400: The internet became more widespread, bloggers and location and team specific websites started taking over the market. A majority of these smaller websites did not charge a subscription fee as it was funded on advertising. This lower cost to the consumer as well as increased access to variety of very specific content led to the shift away from print and towards digital. However, the growth seen in

3888-533: The moment. There has been a major shift within sports in the last decade as more sports teams are switching to using analytics . A large reason for this shift is due to many articles being published about the increased benefit of using analytics to make strategic decisions in a game. As there is data collected about every instance in every sport, sports data analysis has increased. Sports publications are now hiring people with extensive background in statistics and mathematics in order to publish articles detailing

3969-572: The national award winners honored on June 8, 2015. Four new NSSA Hall of Fame members were inducted: baseball writer Hal McCoy , basketball commentator Bill Raftery , sportswriter and sportscaster Lesley Visser and, posthumously, author, journalist and television personality Dick Schaap . In April 2017, after 57 years in Salisbury, the National Sports Media Association moved to Winston-Salem, North Carolina . Our Mission The National Sports Media Association, Inc.

4050-517: The news pages. Recently, the issue of Colin Kaepernick 's protest of injustice shown to people of color by the police by kneeling during the performance of the national anthem before his football games has created diverse and varied coverage. His actions have taken his discussion from the sports field and into the national scope as major political pundits and even the Presidents commenting on

4131-462: The newspaper was dedicated to sports. By the 1920s, that proportion had risen to 20 percent. During this time, newspapers focused mainly on play by play coverage and game recaps of the sport events. Local publications started hiring beat reporters who were tasked with following all developments pertaining to the team. This included traveling with the team and interviewing the players. Teams also started constructing dedicated sections called press box in

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4212-478: The number of publications which leads to more people unsubscribing from the content. The fall in print sports journalism can be tied to the rise of internet and digital sports journalism. Digital sports journalism serves as both a complement and a competitor of newspaper sports journalism. Digital sports journalism began in the mid 1990s with ESPN creating the first website in 1995. At first digital sports journalism covered broad topics in scope, but as time went on and

4293-496: The official website: The Paul "Bear" Bryant College Football Coaching Award ceremony is an exclusive event that honors a college football coach whose great accomplishments, both on and off the field, are legendary. The award recognizes the masters of coaching and allows them to take their deserved place in history beside other legends like Bear Bryant. The NSMA established the Clarence "Big House" Gaines College Basketball Coach of

4374-605: The pace of modern electronic media - would produce special results editions rushed out on Saturday evenings. Some newspapers, such as The Sunday Times , with 1924 Olympic 100 meters champion Harold Abrahams , or the London Evening News using former England cricket captain Sir Leonard Hutton , began to adopt the policy of hiring former sports stars to pen columns, which were often ghost written. Some such ghosted columns, however, did little to further

4455-819: The previous year, and the British Sports Journalism Awards, the industry's "Oscars", sponsored by UK Sport and presented each March. Founded as the Sports Writers' Association, following a merger with the Professional Sports Photographers' Association in 2002, the organization changed its title to the more inclusive SJA. The SJA represents the British sports media on the British Olympic Association 's press advisory committee and acts as

4536-548: The public imagination was so well caught by the event that annual races in Boston , Massachusetts, and London, and at future Olympics, were henceforward staged over exactly the same, 26-mile, 385-yard distance used for the 1908 Olympic Marathon , and the official length of the event worldwide to this day. The London race, called the Polytechnic Marathon and originally staged over the 1908 Olympic route from outside

4617-409: The public. The author creates a story from the raw quotes provided by the athlete and this is published to thousands of viewers. Inherent in the publication will be the biases of the author and this will be passed on to the reader (cite). As sports moves more and more into the political discussion space, sports journalist will have increasingly more power over the public sentiment of the hottest issues at

4698-568: The reputation of sports journalism, which is increasingly becoming the subject of academic scrutiny of its standards. Many "ghosted" columns were often run by independent sports agencies, based in Fleet Street or in the provinces, who had signed up the sports star to a contract and then syndicated their material among various titles. These agencies included Pardons, or the Cricket Reporting Agency , which routinely provided

4779-529: The royal residence at Windsor Castle to White City, was first sponsored by the Sporting Life , which in those Edwardian times was a daily newspaper which sought to cover all sporting events, rather than just a betting paper for horse racing and greyhounds that it became in the years after the Second World War . The rise of the radio made sports journalism more focused on the live coverage of

4860-654: The sporting events. The first sports reporter in Great Britain, and one of the first sports reporters in the World, was an English writer Edgar Wallace , who made a report on The Derby on June 6, 1923 for the British Broadcasting Company . In France, L'Auto , the predecessor of L'Equipe , had already played an equally influential part in the sporting fabric of society when it announced in 1903 that it would stage an annual bicycle race around

4941-569: The sports media itself, Bleacher Report , Deadspin.com , ProFootballTalk.com, BaseballEssential.com, Tireball Sports, AOL Fanhouse, Masshole Sports, the blogs in the Yardbarker Network, and others have garnered massive followings. There are now platforms that act as 'Blog hosts', which allow both amateur and professional sports writers to host their content without the need for a custom website. These include Medium , and Muckrack, which are free platforms to use, which in turn do not pay

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5022-405: The sports sections of British national daily and Sunday newspapers continued to expand, to the point where many papers now have separate standalone sports sections; some Sunday tabloids even have sections, additional to the sports pages, devoted solely to the previous day's football reports. In some respects, this has replaced the earlier practice of many regional newspapers which - until overtaken by

5103-475: The sports stars he reported upon, he hired the services of IMG , the agency founded by the American businessman, Mark McCormack , to manage his affairs. Glanville wrote several books, including novels, as well as scripting the memorable official film to the 1966 World Cup staged in England. Since the 1990s, the growing importance of sport, its impact as a global business and the huge amounts of money involved in

5184-515: The stadiums for the press to sit and record notes on the game. As technology introduced new developments like the radio, television and the internet, the focus of sports coverage shifted from the play by play to statistical analysis of the game and background pieces on the players. This was also coupled with a massive increase in sports amongst the general public. The increased popularity of football, basketball and hockey meant more content to publish and more interested readers to publish to. This led to

5265-517: The staging of events such as the Olympic Games and football World Cups, has also attracted the attention of investigative journalists. The sensitive nature of the relationships between sports journalists and the subjects of their reporting, as well as declining budgets experienced by most Fleet Street newspapers, has meant that such long-term projects have often emanated from television documentary makers. Tom Bower , with his 2003 sports book of

5346-595: The use of analytics in sports. Many established coaches are quick to bash analytics as narrow and ignorant of the big picture. The tradition of sports reporting attracting some of the finest writers in journalism can be traced to the coverage of sport in Victorian England, where several modern sports – such as association football, cricket , athletics and rugby – were first organized and codified into something resembling what we would recognize today. Andrew Warwick has suggested that The Boat Race provided

5427-663: The winner of the Sports Writer of the Year Award. Many became household names in the late 20th century through their trenchant reporting of events, spurring popularity: the Massacre at the Munich Olympics in 1972; Muhammad Ali 's fight career, including his 1974 title bout against George Foreman ; the Heysel Stadium disaster ; and the career highs and lows of the likes of Tiger Woods , George Best , David Beckham , Lester Piggott and other high-profile stars. McIlvanney and Wooldridge, who died in March 2007, aged 75, both enjoyed careers that saw them frequently work in television. During his career, Wooldridge became so famous that, like

5508-593: The writers had more time to research and conduct longer interview sit downs with players and coaches. Since the start of the new millennium, circulation and advertising numbers of print newspapers having been falling rapidly. This has led to widespread cost cutting and layoffs across the industry. There are 29 percent fewer journalists in the workforce now when compared to the number of journalist in 1980. These developments have significantly affected sports journalism as established publications like Sports Illustrated and ESPN have had to cut content, increase prices and reduce

5589-506: The writing of such exposes - referred to as "spitting in the soup" by Paul Kimmage , the former Tour de France professional cyclist, now an award-winning writer for the Sunday Times – often requires the view of an outsider who is not compromised by the need of day-to-day dealings with sportsmen and officials, as required by "beat" correspondents. The stakes can be high when upsetting sport's powers: in 2007, England's FA opted to switch its multimillion-pound contract for UK coverage rights of

5670-470: The year Broken Dreams , which analyzed British football, followed in the tradition established a decade earlier by Andrew Jennings and Vyv Simson with their controversial investigation of corruption within the International Olympic Committee. Jennings and Simson's The Lords of the Rings in many ways predicted the scandals that were to emerge around the staging of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City; Jennings would follow-up with two further books on

5751-413: The year . The Award was named in honor of longtime Alabama coach Bear Bryant after he died of a heart attack in 1983. It is voted on by the NSMA, and proceeds from the awards ceremony benefit the American Heart Association . The College Football Coach of the Year Award began in 1957 and was renamed for Bryant in 1986. Bryant himself won the AFCA Coach of the Year award in 1961, 1971, and 1973. According to

5832-609: Was a bank holding company and the parent of Yadkin Bank , a defunct regional bank with $ 7.3 billion in assets and 110 branches in North and South Carolina , before the 2017 purchase by FNB Corporation of Pittsburgh . The bank was headquartered in Elkin, North Carolina . On July 4, 2014, Yadkin Financial and VantageSouth Bancshares Inc. completed a merger which resulted in the largest community bank based in North Carolina, and

5913-662: Was announced in January 2014 that five of those will close. On January 27, 2014, Yadkin Financial and VantageSouth announced a "merger of equals". The new company was called Yadkin Financial Corp. and was based in Raleigh. Banking operations were based in Statesville, North Carolina . VantageSouth president and CEO Scott Custer will become Yadkin Financial CEO, and Yadkin Financial's Joe Towell becomes executive chairman. VantageSouth chairman Adam Abram will remain on

5994-556: Was called by Custer "one of the most profitable banks in North Carolina." On December 3, the fifteen Crescent branches took the VantageSouth name. Custer became CEO and VantageSouth CEO Steve Jones became president. On September 25, 2012, Crescent and Engelhard, North Carolina –based East Carolina Bank, with 25 branches, announced their merger. Once the East Carolina deal was completed, VantageSouth had 45 branches in central and eastern North Carolina and $ 2 billion in assets. It

6075-584: Was formed in 1959 by a local restaurant owner, Pete DiMizio , to honor regional sportscasters and sportswriters whom he had met at the Greensboro Open Golf Tournament in Greensboro, North Carolina . When DiMizio died, Ed McKenzie took over the leadership role and guided it through the expansion to a national association. Its first Annual Awards Program was held in Salisbury, North Carolina , on April 12, 1960. Lindsey Nelson

6156-776: Was founded in 1924 during the Olympic Games in Paris, at the headquarters of the Sporting Club de France, by Frantz Reichel, the press chief of the Paris Games, and the Belgian Victor Boin. AIPS operates through a system of continental sub-associations and national associations, and liaises closely with some of the world's biggest sports federations, including the International Olympic Committee , football's world governing body FIFA, and

6237-462: Was later knighted for his services to journalism. One of his successors, John Arlott , who became a worldwide favorite because of his radio commentaries on the BBC , was also known for his poetry. The first London Olympic Games in 1908 attracted such widespread public interest that many newspapers assigned their very best-known writers to the event. The Daily Mail even had Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at

6318-522: Was named Sports Broadcaster of the Year for the third time, a prize determined by a ballot of SJA members. Stelling won the vote again the following year, when the Sunday Times' s Paul Kimmage won the interviewer of the year prize for a fifth time. In the United States, the Indianapolis-based National Sports Journalism Center monitors trends and strategy within the sports media industry. The center

6399-444: Was selected the 1959 National Sportscaster of the Year and Red Smith was voted the 1959 Sportswriter of the Year. In 1962 Grantland Rice was selected as the first Hall of Fame inductee. As Red Smith inducted Rice into the Hall of Fame, he said, "Who knows what will become of this Hall of Fame? It might never be heard from again. No matter, it cannot be improved, for it is perfect tonight with only Granny enshrined." In April 1990,

6480-611: Was the first woman to work for a large network (CBS) and the first woman to do play-by-play in the '60s. Lesley Visser was a sportswriter for The Boston Globe before she joined CBS in 1984 as a part-time reporter. She is the only sportscaster in history, male or female, to have worked on the Final Four, NBA Finals, World Series, Monday Night Football, the Super Bowl, the Olympics, and the US Open broadcasts. She has been voted

6561-542: Was the new trend in sports. Sports stories occasionally transcend the games themselves and take on socio-political significance: Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier in baseball is an example of this. Modern controversies regarding the hyper-compensation of top athletes, the use of anabolic steroids and other, banned performance-enhancing drugs , and the cost to local and national governments to build sports venues and related infrastructure, especially for Olympic Games , also demonstrates how sports can intrude on to

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