Bill Livingston has been a sports columnist at The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer since 1984. Before that he worked at the Dallas Morning News and the Philadelphia Inquirer. Twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, Livingston has won over 25 journalism awards, including five awards for either best column or game story in Ohio, and a top 10 finish for features in the Associated Press Sports Editors contest. Livingston is the author of Above and Beyond: Tim Mack, the Pole Vault, and the Quest for Olympic Gold (The Kent State University Press, 2008), which won three national awards. He attended Vanderbilt University on the Fred Russell-Grantland Rice national sportswriting scholarship.
Sports talk in America has evolved from small-time barroom banter into a major media smorgasbord that runs 24/7 on TV and radio. With hundreds of billions of dollars generated annually by pro and college teams in major markets nationwide, sports fans across the country are more dedicated...
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