11.   He continued to cover sports for The Times with a companion to describe what he could no longer see.

12.   He covered high school sports for nearly a decade before covering college football and basketball until his retirement.

13.   He hustled a job at a community weekly paper, the Auburn Caller, covering high school sports.

14.   He studied journalism at Syracuse University before covering sports for both Boston dailies.

15.   I wrote a sports column in the high school paper and covered school sports as a stringer for the local paper.

16.   In covering sports, you can plan ahead, look at schedules, make assumptions on which games will be important.

17.   In his years of covering the sport for ESPN, Weber established a reputation of not being afraid to ask drivers the tough questions.

18.   It is also the epitome of a national sports channel, covering sports with a broad brush much as Sports Illustrated and the broadcast networks did in previous decades.

19.   Just as importantly, ESPN made a point to hire women and minorities to cover sports, breaking away from the Anglo male image.

20.   Karen Rosen covers sports for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.