Eye to Eye: Sports Journalist Christine Brennan

Christine Brennan, the USA Today sports columnist, author, and commentator, uses her voice to advocate for diversity and equality in the world of sports, and her wisdom to encourage future journalists. Her passion for sports was sparked by her dad, who encouraged her to participate in athletics and, as he said, “smell the game”—go watch baseball and football games together.

As a child, Christine wrote daily entries in her diary and listened to play-by-play coverage on her radio. She pursued this love of words through journalism school and applied her passion for sports by reporting on them for various newspapers. Since then, she has portrayed the setbacks and triumphs of athletes, all the while fighting her own battles for success—and respect—as a female journalist.

From knocking down barriers in NFL locker rooms to covering every Olympics since 1984 to being the go-to commentator whenever scandal occurs in the sports world, Christine Brennan has done it all. Eye to Eye invites young readers to learn more about this remarkable journalist and perhaps to nurture their own dreams of investigating and telling important stories.

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Eye to Eye: Sports Journalist Christine Brennan

Christine Brennan, the USA Today sports columnist, author, and commentator, uses her voice to advocate for diversity and equality in the world of sports, and her wisdom to encourage future journalists. Her passion for sports was sparked by her dad, who encouraged her to participate in athletics and, as he said, “smell the game”—go watch baseball and football games together.

As a child, Christine wrote daily entries in her diary and listened to play-by-play coverage on her radio. She pursued this love of words through journalism school and applied her passion for sports by reporting on them for various newspapers. Since then, she has portrayed the setbacks and triumphs of athletes, all the while fighting her own battles for success—and respect—as a female journalist.

From knocking down barriers in NFL locker rooms to covering every Olympics since 1984 to being the go-to commentator whenever scandal occurs in the sports world, Christine Brennan has done it all. Eye to Eye invites young readers to learn more about this remarkable journalist and perhaps to nurture their own dreams of investigating and telling important stories.

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Eye to Eye: Sports Journalist Christine Brennan

Eye to Eye: Sports Journalist Christine Brennan

by Julie K. Rubini
Eye to Eye: Sports Journalist Christine Brennan

Eye to Eye: Sports Journalist Christine Brennan

by Julie K. Rubini

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Christine Brennan, the USA Today sports columnist, author, and commentator, uses her voice to advocate for diversity and equality in the world of sports, and her wisdom to encourage future journalists. Her passion for sports was sparked by her dad, who encouraged her to participate in athletics and, as he said, “smell the game”—go watch baseball and football games together.

As a child, Christine wrote daily entries in her diary and listened to play-by-play coverage on her radio. She pursued this love of words through journalism school and applied her passion for sports by reporting on them for various newspapers. Since then, she has portrayed the setbacks and triumphs of athletes, all the while fighting her own battles for success—and respect—as a female journalist.

From knocking down barriers in NFL locker rooms to covering every Olympics since 1984 to being the go-to commentator whenever scandal occurs in the sports world, Christine Brennan has done it all. Eye to Eye invites young readers to learn more about this remarkable journalist and perhaps to nurture their own dreams of investigating and telling important stories.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780821446645
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Publication date: 04/05/2019
Series: Biographies for Young Readers
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 136
File size: 14 MB
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About the Author

Julie K. Rubini is the founder of Claire’s Day, a children’s book festival in honor of her late daughter. She is the author of Hidden Ohio, Missing Millie Benson: The Secret Case of the Nancy Drew Ghostwriter and Journalist, and Virginia Hamilton: America’s Storyteller. But most of all, she cherishes her roles as wife to Brad and mother to daughter Kyle and son Ian.

Table of Contents

Contents

Author’s Note

One: In the Locker Room

Let Them Wear Towels

Two: Drive

African American Quarterbacks in the NFL

Three: Box Out

The Women’s Sports Foundation

Four: Rookie

Joseph Medill and the Medill School of Journalism

Five: Unsportsmanlike Conduct

Sexism in the locker room

Six: Major Leagues

The impact of United States boycott of the 1980 Olympics

Seven: Live from the Olympics

The cost of becoming a figure skating Olympian

Eight: Figure Skating

It’s all in the jumping!

Nine: Going National

Making history at Augusta National Golf Club

Ten: Passing the Baton

Mary Garber, the first woman sportswriter

Christine’s Timeline

Christine’s Awards and Recognitions

Glossary

Acknowledgments

Notes

Books

Articles

Film

Lectures/Speeches

Biographies for Young Readers

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