HALF MOON BAY, Calif. — The bar had been rowdy all night with people dancing and milling about. Seated 30 feet from the stage, Bruce Jenkins waited. Then the band made room for one more. His daughter Ella, who performs as EllaHarp, began to sing “Crescent City Blues,” a torch song written by her grandfather,
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Update July 6, 2026: Since the publication of this story, Laine Higgins has left the Wall Street Journal to pursue an MFA in creative writing with a nonfiction concentration at Columbia University. Whenever Wall Street Journal sportswriter Laine Higgins enters the press box at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, the attendants check credentials before letting sports
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The Wall Street Journal’s Jason Gay views journalism in the same way professional athletes approach their sport: he’s constantly finding ways to improve and adapt to the changing world (or game).
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Growing up in Miami, Alden González always dreamed of making the majors. Today, one could say that, in a sense, he’s fulfilled that dream, just not the way he’d imagined. Rather than going to the ballpark every day to play in a game amidst a cheering crowd, he goes to the ballpark to interview players,
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Ken Rosenthal is one of the faces of baseball reporting, writing for The Athletic and broadcasting at Fox Sports from the dugout. His experience goes back decades, and his connections with players, agents, coaches and front office members have earned him the title of “baseball insider.”
Hal McCoy, a sports writer with the Dayton Daily News, reflects on his immense journalism career, 49 years of which he spent writing about baseball. He laments the current state of print journalism.
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Jack Todd became a sports columnist for the Montreal Gazette in the 1990s. Today, he works freelance but still writes with all the verve and critical assessment as he did when he was a full-time sports columnist.
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For over 32 years, Howard Herman has interviewed sports talent ranging from high school standouts to rising professional baseball stars for the Berkshire Eagle. And as the sports media landscape has morphed to favor massive sports sites like The Athletic or Bleacher Report, Herman’s laser focus on the local makes him a unique source for a region’s sports news.
Being the Golden State Warriors beat writer for the San Francisco Chronicle is a responsibility Connor Letourneau doesn’t take lightly. He often brings his laptop to a bar when he goes out to meet friends and has left many social events early to cover a breaking news story. Letourneau treats every day like Game 7 of the NBA Finals.
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Author John Gierach, who is best know for writing about his fly fishing adventures, can easily tell fishing stories. But his ability to capture the essence of a day on the water, the significance of the event from a greater perspective, is what separates him from other writers.
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As an NBA writer for The Ringer, Danny Chau writes about major happenings of one of the most popular sports in the world, but he also writes about food with an evocative style.
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New York-based Lindbergh, 30, writes about baseball, video games and television for The Ringer.
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