11.   Crabtree, who lives in Austin, Texas, was a sports writer at the Kansas City Star after graduating from Kansas State.

12.   Dan Reeves of the Atlanta Falcons is the most overrated coach in the National Football League, according to a survey of sports writers.

13.   Even the most jaded sports writers and no-growth environmentalists seem to love the place.

14.   For Atlanta Journal-Constitution sports writer Karen Rosen, the shoe will be on the other foot Wednesday morning when she carries the Olympic flame.

15.   For a sports writer making your basic minimum wage, the stakes seemed awfully high back then.

16.   Forget the law, he wanted to be a sports writer.

17.   Glenn Sheeley is a sports writer for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

18.   He started out at the Post as a sports writer, moved speedily to the Style section, the Sunday magazine, then to Moscow.

19.   He was the best sports writer in the place, and I was once his eyes.

20.   He then became a sports writer for The Charlotte News.