A Lifetime of Sports

Rick Telander is the senior sports columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times.  He is the author of nine books and was previously a senior writer for Sports Illustrated and ESPN, the Magazine. An original member of "The Sportswriters on TV,’’ Telander has been named Illinois Sportswriter of the Year nine times, and his work has been collected in over a dozen anthologies.  He has been awarded the Sigma Delta Chi Award by the Society of Professional Journalists and recently received the Dan Jenkins Lifetime Medal for Excellence in Sportswriting from the University of Texas,  Moody of College of Communications.  In 2021 he was inducted into the National Sportswriters Hall of Fame in Winston-Salem, N.C.  He is married with four adult children and lives in Highwood, Ill. 

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