JimBob
02-18-2008, 07:39 PM
Sittler wins state's Sportswriter of Year
By Staff Reports
2/17/2008
The National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association announced Saturday that Tulsa World sports columnist Dave Sittler has been named Oklahoma's Sportswriter of the Year for 2007.
It is the fifth consecutive year and the eighth overall that Sittler's peers have selected him for the honor.
Dean Blevins, of KWTV in Oklahoma City, was named Sportscaster of the Year in Oklahoma.
Sittler and Blevins will be honored May 5 during the NSSA's 49th annual awards program and induction cere mony at the organization's national headquarters and Hall of Fame in Salisbury, N.C.
National winners are Bob Ryan of the Boston Globe and Jim Nantz of CBS Sports.
Sittler, who joined the World in 1999 after working for the Daily Oklahoman and Tulsa Tribune, was inducted into the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame in 2005.
He served as president of the Football Writers Association of America in 2001, and has received many writing awards from various state and national journalism organizations.
By Staff Reports
2/17/2008
The National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association announced Saturday that Tulsa World sports columnist Dave Sittler has been named Oklahoma's Sportswriter of the Year for 2007.
It is the fifth consecutive year and the eighth overall that Sittler's peers have selected him for the honor.
Dean Blevins, of KWTV in Oklahoma City, was named Sportscaster of the Year in Oklahoma.
Sittler and Blevins will be honored May 5 during the NSSA's 49th annual awards program and induction cere mony at the organization's national headquarters and Hall of Fame in Salisbury, N.C.
National winners are Bob Ryan of the Boston Globe and Jim Nantz of CBS Sports.
Sittler, who joined the World in 1999 after working for the Daily Oklahoman and Tulsa Tribune, was inducted into the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame in 2005.
He served as president of the Football Writers Association of America in 2001, and has received many writing awards from various state and national journalism organizations.