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Bill Millsaps(1943-2020)

"Almost no one called William Millsaps "Bill" - he was 'Saps to friends, family and the people he wrote about so eloquently for so many years in The Richmond Times-Dispatch".[1]

He was a sportswriter and executive of the Richmond Times-Dispatch from 1966 to 2005.[2] Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page). He began his journalistic career at the The Knoxville Journal.[3]

Basketball career

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He played basketball at the University of Tennessee.[4][5]

Awards and honors

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Millsaps was a 2019 inductee into the Virginia Golf Hall of Fame.[6] He was named ...[7] He participated in the annual Bill Brill Invitational golf tournament in southwest Virginia.[8]

Biography

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He was an award-winning sports writer for the Richmond Times-Dispatch.[9] Established Red Smith Award.[10] He sometimes wrote book reviews or recommended sports books to his readers.[11]

References

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  1. ^ Post, John Feinstein The Washington. "John Feinstein remembers Bill Millsaps as 'a newspaper man's newspaper man'". Richmond Times-Dispatch. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
  2. ^ Times-Dispatch, DAVID TEEL Richmond. "TEEL: Subtle and graceful, Millsaps was a role model for all he inspired during nearly four decades with the RTD". Richmond Times-Dispatch. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
  3. ^ "Bill Millsaps – Virginia Golf Hall of Fame". Retrieved 13 April 2020.
  4. ^ "There will never be another Bill Millsaps: friend, mentor, hero". Jerry Ratcliffe. 12 April 2020. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
  5. ^ "Bill Millsaps – Virginia Golf Hall of Fame". Retrieved 13 April 2020.
  6. ^ "Bill Millsaps – Virginia Golf Hall of Fame". Retrieved 13 April 2020.
  7. ^ Press, Associated. "Award-winning sports writer William Millsaps dies at age 77". Washington Post. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
  8. ^ doug.doughty@roanoke.com 981-3129, Doug Doughty. "Doughty: Longtime Richmond sports editor Bill Millsaps left a different kind of legacy in Southwest Virginia". Roanoke Times. Retrieved 14 April 2020.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  9. ^ Times-Dispatch, JOHN O’CONNOR AND JEFF E. SCHAPIRO Richmond. "William H. Millsaps, celebrated sports writer and popular executive at the Richmond Times-Dispatch, dies at 77". Richmond Times-Dispatch. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
  10. ^ "The Virgin Islands Daily News - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
  11. ^ Vincent, Fay (2007). The Only Game in Town: Baseball Stars of the 1930s and 1940s Talk About the Game They Loved. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7432-7318-3.
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