Richard J. Schaap (September 27, 1931 – December 21, 2001) was an American sportswriter, broadcaster, and the author or co-author of 33 books. Events 489 - Odoacer attacks Theodoric at the Battle of Verona and is defeated again Year 1931 ( MCMXXXI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1931 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 69 - The end of the Year of the four emperors: Following Galba, Otho and Vitellius, Vespasian Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Sports journalism is a form of Journalism that reports on Sports topics and events While the sports department within some Newspapers has been He was known for his elegant prose and had a reputation as something of an intellectual; many columns consisted of broad sports essays, or "thought pieces. Sport is an Activity that is governed by a set of rules or Customs and often engaged in competitively An essay is usually a short piece of writing It is often written from an author's personal point of view. " His autobiography, Flashing Before My Eyes: 50 Years of Headlines, Deadlines & Punchlines not only recounted some of his adventures, but was an anthology to his habit of name-dropping (531 celebrities). After his death in 2001, the autobiography was reissued under Schaap's original title- "Dick Schaap as Told to Dick Schaap: 50 years of Headlines, Deadlines and Punchlines," to coordinate with many of his previous titles. In 2002, he was inducted into the Nassau County Sports Hall of Fame. The Nassau County Sports Hall of Fame[http //wwwnassausportsorg/awdsdinner/halloffame
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Early life and education
Born in Brooklyn and raised Jewish in Freeport, New York on Long Island, Schaap began writing as a high school student. Brooklyn (named after the Dutch town Breukelen) is one of the five boroughs of New York City. Freeport is a village in the Town of Hempstead, Nassau County, New York, USA, on the South Shore of Long Island Long Island is an island located in southeastern New York, USA, its western shores directly across from Manhattan, from which the island stretches At age fourteen he began writing a sports column for the weekly Freeport Leader, but the following year moved to the Nassau Daily Review-Star daily under future Pulitzer Prize-winner Jimmy Breslin. The Pulitzer Prize, ˈpʊlɨtsɚ PULL-it-sər is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in Newspaper journalism, Jimmy Breslin (born October 17, 1930) is a Pulitzer Prize -winning American Columnist and Author. He would later follow Breslin to the Long Island Press and New York Herald Tribune. The Long Island Press is a free Alternative newsweekly serving Long Island with extensive coverage of arts and entertainment sports and alternative The New York Herald Tribune was a daily newspaper created in 1924 when the New York Tribune acquired the New York Herald.
He attended Cornell University and was editor-in-chief of the student paper, the Cornell Daily Sun, during which time he defended a professor before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). The Cornell Daily Sun is an independent daily Newspaper published in Ithaca New York by students at Cornell University. The House Committee on Un-American Activities ( HUAC or HCUA 1938–1975 was an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives. He lettered in varsity lacrosse playing goaltender, where one of his proudest moments came while playing against Syracuse great Jim Brown. Lacrosse is a full contact Team sport played using a solid rubber ball and long handled racket called a crosse or Lacrosse stick. James Nathaniel "Jim" Brown (born February 17, 1936) is an American former professional football player who has also made Dick Schaap believed that Jim Brown was the greatest lacrosse player that ever lived. During his last year at Cornell, Dick was elected to the Sphinx Head Society. The Sphinx Head Society is the oldest senior honor society at Cornell University. After graduating in 1955 he received a Grantland Rice fellowship at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and authored his thesis on the recruitment of basketball players. Year 1955 ( MCMLV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar) Grantland Rice ( November 1, 1880 &ndash July 13, 1954) was an early 20th century American sports-writer. Academic Programs Columbia’s Journalism School offers three degree programs Master of Science in journalism (full and part-time Basketball is a team Sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by propelling a ball through a 10 feet (3 m
Bobby Fischer
Around 1955, Schaap befriended the adolescent Bobby Fischer, who later became world chess champion. Year 1955 ( MCMLV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar) Robert James "Bobby" Fischer ( March 9 1943 – January 17 2008) was an American -born Chess Grandmaster See also Development of the World Chess Championship The World Chess Championship is played to determine the World Champion in the Board game Chess They spent time together, such as going to New York Knicks games, and Fischer concedes that Shaap was somewhat of a "father figure" to him. In a news conference in 2005, prompted by questions from Schaap's son Jeremy, acknowledged that the relationship was significant that but that Fischer was still pointedly resentful that Dick Schaap had later written, among many other comments, that Fischer "did not have a sane bone left in his body". Jeremy Schaap (b August 23 1969, New York City) is an American sportswriter television reporter and author [1]
Writing career
Schaap began work as assistant sports editor of Newsweek magazine. Newsweek is an American weekly Newsmagazine published in New York City.
In 1964, Schaap began a thrice-weekly column covering current events. Year 1964 ( MCMLXIV) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the 1964 Gregorian calendar. In the following years he wrote the 1968 best-seller Instant Replay co-authored with Jerry Kramer of the Green Bay Packers, and I Can't Wait Until Tomorrow. Year 1968 ( MCMLXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. For other uses of the term "Instant replay" see Instant replay (disambiguation. Gerald Louis "Jerry" Kramer (born January 23, 1936, in Jordan Montana) is a former professional football player author and sports The Green Bay Packers are a professional American football team based in Green Bay Wisconsin. . . 'Cause I Get Better-Looking Every Day, the 1969 autobiography of New York Jet Joe Namath. Year 1969 ( MCMLXIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. An autobiography, from the Greek αὐτός autos "self" βίος bios "life" and γράφειν graphein "to write" The New York Jets are a professional American football team based in the New York metropolitan area. Joseph William Namath (born May 31 1943, Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania) also known as Broadway Joe or Joe Willie, is a former These led to a stint as co-host of The Joe Namath Show, which in turn led to his hiring as sports anchor for WNBC-TV. WNBC Channel 4 is the flagship station of the NBC television network located in New York City. In 1973 he became editor of Sport Magazine. Year 1973 ( MCMLXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the 1973 Gregorian calendar. Sport is a free French and London -based weekly Sports magazine Other books included a biography of Robert F. Kennedy, .44 (with Jimmy Breslin), a fictionalized account of the hunt for Son of Sam killer David Berkowitz, Turned On, about upper middle-class drug abuse, An Illustrated History of the Olympics, a coffee-table book on the history of the modern Olympic Games, The Perfect Jump, on the world record-breaking long jump by Bob Beamon in the 1968 Summer Olympics, My Aces, My Faults with Nick Bollettieri, Steinbrenner!, a biography of mercurial New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, and Bo Knows Bo with Bo Jackson, one of the best-selling sports autobiographies ever. Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy (November 20 1925 – June 6 1968 also called RFK, was the United States Attorney General from 1961 to 1964 and a Jimmy Breslin (born October 17, 1930) is a Pulitzer Prize -winning American Columnist and Author. The Olympic Games is an international Multi-sport event established for both summer and winter games Robert "Bob" Beamon (born August 29, 1946) is an American former Track and field athlete best known for his long-standing The 1968 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XIX Olympiad, were an International Multi-sport event held in Mexico City Nicholas James Bollettieri (b July 31, 1931 in Pelham New York) is an American Tennis coach who is credited with developing The New York Yankees are a professional baseball team based in the borough of The Bronx, in New York City, New York. George Michael Steinbrenner III (born July 4, 1930 in Rocky River Ohio) is an American Billionaire businessman and the principal Bo Knows Bo is the Autobiography of Bo Jackson, who excelled in both professional football and professional baseball before injuries ended his careers Vincent Edward "Bo" Jackson (born November 30, 1962 in Bessemer Alabama) is an American athlete and a former multi-
After spending the 1970s with NBC as an NBC Nightly News and Today Show correspondent, he moved to ABC World News Tonight and 20/20 at ABC in the 1980s. This article is about the Decade 1970-1979 For the Year 1970 see 1970. The National Broadcasting Company ( NBC) is an American Television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's NBC Nightly News is the flagship evening news program for NBC News and broadcasts from the GE Building, Rockefeller Center in New York City. Today, also referred to as The Today Show, is an American morning news and talk show airing weekday mornings on NBC. World News with Charles Gibson (previously known as World News Tonight, often called ABC World News Tonight, also often abbreviated 20/20 is an American television Newsmagazine broadcast on ABC since June 6, 1978. The American Broadcasting Company ( ABC) is an American Television network. The 1980s was the decade spanning from January 1 1980 to December 31 1989. He earned five Emmy Awards, for profiles of Sid Caesar and Tom Waddell, two for reporting, and for writing. Isaac Sidney "Sid" Caesar (born September 8, 1922) is an Emmy Award -winning American comic actor and writer known as the leading man Dr Tom Waddell ( November 1, 1937 - July 11, 1987) was the Gay American sportsman who founded the international sporting He was also a theatre critic, leading him to quip that he was the only person ever both to vote for the Tony Awards and for the Heisman Trophy. The Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Awards, recognize achievement in live American Theatre and are presented
In 1988 he began hosting The Sports Reporters on ESPN cable television, which he began hosting in later years with son Jeremy as a correspondent. Year 1988 ( MCMLXXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar) The Sports Reporters is a sports talk show that airs on ESPN at 10 a He also hosted Schaap One on One on ESPN Classic and a syndicated ESPN Radio show called The Sporting Life with Dick Schaap, in which he discussed the week's developments in sports with Jeremy. For the Canadian channel of this name see ESPN Classic (Canada.
Schaap died at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan after complications from what was supposed to have been routine hip replacement surgery. Lenox Hill Hospital, on Manhattan 's Upper East Side, is a 652-bed acute care Hospital and a major teaching affiliate of NYU Medical Center Manhattan Island, in New York Harbor, is much the largest part of the Borough of Manhattan, one of the Five Boroughs which form the City of New York Hip replacement, also hip Arthroplasty, is a surgical procedure in which the Hip joint is replaced by a prosthetic implant.
Following Schaap's death, the Nassau County Sports Commission created the Dick Schaap Award for Outstanding Journalism in 2002 as a tribute to Dick's career and also to highlight his roots in Nassau County, New York. Mission The Nassau County Sports Commission is a Non-profit, 501(c(3 organization created to enhance the quality of life of Nassau County The Dick Schaap Award for Outstanding Journalism was established in 2002 to honor the memory of one of Americas pre-eminent sports writers Dick Schaap. See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. There is also a Town of Nassau in Rensselaer County. Nassau County is a suburban county in the New York Metropolitan He was also inducted into the Nassau County Sports Hall of Fame that same year. The Nassau County Sports Hall of Fame[http //wwwnassausportsorg/awdsdinner/halloffame
The Sports Emmy division of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences renamed their writing category "The Dick Schaap Outstanding Writing Award". The 2005 Emmy in this category was won by Jeremy for a SportsCenter piece called “Finding Bobby Fischer. SportsCenter is a daily Sports news Television show and the flagship program of American Cable network ESPN since the network Robert James "Bobby" Fischer ( March 9 1943 – January 17 2008) was an American -born Chess Grandmaster ”
Quotes
- "Finally, one last four-letter word concerning Lenny Bruce: Dead. Lenny Bruce (October 13 1925 &ndash August 3 1966 born Leonard Alfred Schneider, was an American Stand-up comedian, Writer, social At forty. That's obscene. "
Notes
- ^ Chess legend still intrigues people May 9, 2005
External links
- Introduction to The Best American Sports Writing 2000, 2000
- Associated Press Editors: Dick Schaap awarded 2002 honor
- Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism obituary: Tributes: Dick Schaap
- Cornell University obituary: Richard J. "Dick" Schaap '55
- ESPN Classic: "Schaap was storyteller, collector of people," June 25, 2002
- USA Today "Talk Today" Interview, January 10, 2001
- Dick Schaap Award Official Website
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