21.   Kram was familiar with boxing from his years of covering the sport for Sports Illustrated.

22.   Last year, he came back to The Times to cover high school sports.

23.   Mark Blaudschun covers college sports for The Boston Globe.

24.   Matt Winkeljohn covers sports for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

25.   Over a seven-day period, Tirico covered four sports in five states.

26.   Partly this is because I spent about a decade covering sports for a living.

27.   Reporters who cover sports say there is already so much cynicism among the athletes themselves that anyone who sets a new world record is immediately suspected of doping.

28.   Tesh slipped into a recording career through a side door, while covering sports on television.

29.   The man who reinvented the way his sport is covered should be a lock.

30.   The schedule change, approved by the international track and field federation on Sunday, drew mixed reviews from media that cover the sport on a regular basis.