Steve Rushin
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Steve Rushin (b. September 22, 1966 in Elmhurst, IL) is an American sportswriter. He wrote a weekly column, Air and Space, for Sports Illustrated magazine. Formerly labeled Steve Rushin's Air and Space, the column ran from 1998-2007 and concentrated on subjects within and sometimes tangential to sports.[1]
He was named the 2005 National Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association.[2]
He is married to college basketball analyst and former basketball player Rebecca Lobo. They have three children: Siobhan, Maeve, and Thomas. They reside in Connecticut.[3][4]
Rushin is the author of Road Swing: One Fan's Journey Into the Soul of America's Sports (1998) [5]and The Caddie Was a Reindeer (2004).[6]
Rushin left Sports Illustrated in February 2007. He has since found a niche as an occasional contributor to Time magazine's issue-closing essays.[7][8][9][10]
He is a graduate of John F. Kennedy Senior High School in Bloomington, Minnesota. He is a graduate of Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI where he was the speaker at graduation in May 2007.
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- ^ http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/inside_game/archives/steve_rushin/
- ^ http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1104422/index.htm
- ^ http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa4112/is_200308/ai_n9292948
- ^ http://uconn.blogs.com/huskyblog/2005/11/shes_a_rushin_n.html
- ^ http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=26492
- ^ http://books.google.com/books?id=JCrBWjKygZwC&dq=steve+rushin+caddie+was+a&pg=PP1&ots=whvDI7uYrJ&sig=VHCXdpfvJ-Oko4wP-8jG_8-Bu-k&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result
- ^ http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1647487,00.html
- ^ http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1649321,00.html
- ^ http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1657807,00.html
- ^ http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1661681,00.html
