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Morgan Bell

Description:Twenty-something Australian woman. Asexual. Atheist. Allegedly Amoral.

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Jackie Hooper

Description:Jackie Hooper is a musician and writer who resides in Portland Oregon. In her latest endeavor, "The Things You Would Have Said", Jackie is compiling stories...

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Rob Neyer, ESPN

Description: Rob Neyer is one of ESPN's foremost baseball columnists.

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Description: Rosenthal has served as lead field reporter for Major League Baseball on FOX since 2005. He began his career with The Baltimore Sun, where he was named Maryland Sportswriter of the Year five times by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association. He joined The Sporting News, where he served as a national baseball writer through 2005. He is a voting member of the Baseball Hall of Fame.

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Bob Ryan, The Boston Globe

Description: Bob Ryan is the basketball beat writer for the Boston Globe.

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Jason Sprenger, The Sports Ace

Description: Jason Sprenger is a lifelong Minnesotan who's happily married to a native south Texan and father of an adventurous toddler. His career has been in public relations and marketing, although in his college days he was an award-winning journalist. He's a passionate individual, and is always in pursuit of what he considers to be happiness.

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Gene Wojciechowski, ESPN

Description: Gene Wojciechowski is ESPN's first-ever senior national sports columnist.

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Jemele Hill, ESPN

Description: Jemele Hill was born and raised in Detroit. She is a sports columnist for ESPN.com

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Buster Olney, ESPN

Description: Buster Olney is a blogger on ESPN who primarily contributes to the baseball section of the site and also makes occasional TV appearances. Olney uses many links to outside sources to show readers what he's talking about, often linking to local papers, other bloggers, and relevant articles to make a point. Olney does not rely on statistics much at all; he is far more reliant on stories from his personal sources and from what he can glean from the web.

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Woody Paige, Denver Post

Description: Woody Paige is a sports columnist for The Denver Post, author, and a regular panelist on the ESPN sports-talk program Around the Horn. He was also a co-host of Cold Pizza and its spin-off show 1st and 10 until Nov. 4, 2006, when it was announced that Paige would return to the Post. Paige was a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame Selection Committee and is a Baseball Hall of Fame voter.

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Chris Ballard, Sports Illustrated

Description: Chris Ballard is a Senior Writer for Sports Illustrated and SI.Com. He joined the magazine in 2000 and covers the NBA and MLB. He's written 11 cover stories for the magazine, as well as features on a wide array of subjects, from motocross star Ricky Carmichael to America's best sports bars to bass fisherman Mike Iaconelli. His work has been included in the Best American Sportswriting series and he's the author of two books, Hoops Nation (1998) and The Butterfly Hunter (2006). He lives in Berkeley, CA where he spend an inordinate amount of time playing pick-up basketball.

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Steven A. Smith, ESPN

Description: Steven A. Smith's career in sports journalism began as as a writer for The Philadelphia Inquirer in 1994. He was initially a general sportswriter for the Inquirer before he gained positions as their reporter for the Philadelphia 76ers,as their NBA columnist, and eventually, as a general sports columnist. On August 23, 2007, the Inquirer announced that Smith would no longer be writing columns and would instead be demoted back to the position of general assignment reporter. Prior to his job with the Inquirer, Smith has had positions with the Winston-Salem Journal, the Greensboro News and Record and the New York Daily News. In 2008, the Inquirer ended its relation with Smith, which coincided with Smith starting his own blog. Smith is frequently seen as a basketball analyst and talk show host on ESPN. His stint there began in August, 2005, when he hosted a daily hour-long show called Quite Frankly with Stephen A. Smith. After the show was cancelled in January, 2007, he mainly concentrated on basketball, serving as an NBA analyst. Smith has appeared on other ESPN shows as well, including the reality series Dream Job, as well as a frequent guest (and guest host) on Pardon the Interruption and 1st and 10. He appears as an anchor on the Sunday morning edition of SportsCenter, but it remains unknown if he will assume this responsibility full time.

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