by Rosebud Journalism Awards | Jul 8, 2026 | Sports
JULY 2026 – Veteran sportswriter Rick Reilly, who in recent years gets his witty prose onto Washington Post screens, wrote a cheerful essay on suddenly being proud of America because – you knew it – the six-week World Cup has actually improved our...
by Rosebud Journalism Awards | Oct 30, 2025 | Sports
OCTOBER 2025 – College and pro sports are careering from all that money – and back-to-back columns this week by the WSJ’s Jason Gay bring the most recent headlines into nice perspective. On Oct. 24 the WSJ published Gay’s who-can-be-surprised...
by Rosebud Journalism Awards | Sep 17, 2025 | Regional & Metro Journalism, Sports
SEPTEMBER 2025 – John Canzano is a well known sports pundit in Oregon today, a sports radio host and columnist for Portland’s newspaper, The Oregonian. Back in November 2018 Canzano wrote a lengthy (4 part) and damning report on the business operations of...
by Rosebud Journalism Awards | Jul 8, 2025 | Sports
JULY 2025 – A conspicuous blowout in sports writing these days is the outperformance of the WSJ’s relatively small sports staff against the NYT’s 400-member team at The Athletic. The WSJ leads with columnists – primarily Jason Gay, Jared...