Sportswriter Profile: Neil Best (Newsday)
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
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Athens, GA (Dec 12, 2007) - Neil Best is a sports columnist for Newsday and writes the WatchDog blog. The following is his profile as published by Newsday:
Neil Best first worked at Newsday in 1982, then returned in 1985 after a two-year stint covering college hockey for The Anchorage Times in Alaska. From 1985-90 he covered New York City high school sports, then spent five years as Newsday's beat writer for St. John's and Big East basketball. From 1995-2005 he covered the Giants before leaving that beat to become a reporter, columnist and feature writer focused on off-field topics such as sports media and business. His SportsWatch column debuted on Sept. 30, 2005.
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