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Sports journalist. Mary Gwen Knapp (November 18, 1961 – January 20, 2023) was an American sports journalist. During her career as sportswriter, she wrote for newspapers including The Philadelphia Inquirer, the San Francisco Examiner, the San Francisco Chronicle, and The New York Times. [1] She also wrote for the Sports on Earth website. [2]
The San Francisco Examiner is a newspaper distributed in and around San Francisco, California, and has been published since 1863.. Once self-dubbed the "Monarch of the Dailies" by then-owner William Randolph Hearst and the flagship of the Hearst chain, [1] the Examiner converted to free distribution early in the 21st century and is owned by Clint Reilly Communications, which bought the ...
The Thanksgiving Day Disaster took place in San Francisco on November 29, 1900, at the annual college football game between the California Golden Bears and the Stanford Cardinal, also known as The Big Game. A large crowd of people who did not want to pay the $1 (equivalent of $40 today [ 1]) admission fee gathered upon the roof of a glass ...
8812614. Website. sfchronicle.com. sfgate.com (until 2017) The San Francisco Chronicle is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California. It was founded in 1865 as The Daily Dramatic Chronicle by teenage brothers Charles de Young and Michael H. de Young. [ 1] The paper is owned by the Hearst Corporation, which ...
Art Spander. Arthur Melvin Spander is an American sports writer. He is a free-lance columnist for the San Francisco Examiner. In 1999, he was awarded the McCann Award, earning him a spot in the Pro Football Hall of Fame and in 2007 he was honored with the Masters Major Achievement Award. Spander began his career as a news writer for United ...
Charles McCabe, 1962. Charles McCabe (1915–1983) was a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle from the mid-1950s until his death May 1, 1983 at the age of 68. He was born and raised in New York's "Hells Kitchen" and was educated by the Jesuits .
In 2000, the Hearst Corp. pulled another "switcheroo" by selling its flagship and "Monarch of the Dailies", the afternoon San Francisco Examiner, and acquiring the long-time competing, but now larger morning paper, San Francisco Chronicle from the Charles de Young family. The San Francisco Examiner is now published as a daily freesheet.
Herbert Eugene Caen (/ k eɪ n /; April 3, 1916 – February 1, 1997) was a San Francisco humorist and journalist whose daily column of local goings-on and insider gossip, social and political happenings, and offbeat puns and anecdotes—"A continuous love letter to San Francisco" [1] —appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle for almost sixty years (excepting a relatively brief defection to ...