Howard "Howie" Bryant (born November 25, 1968) is a sports journalist, and radio and television personality. He writes weekly columns for

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, and appears regularly on ESPN Radio. He is a frequent panelist on ''

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'' and since 2006 has been the sports correspondent for ''

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Journalism career

A native of

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, Bryant began his career in 1991 with the ''

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'' covering sports and technology, before moving to the ''

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'' from 1995 to 2001. In San Jose, Bryant covered the telecommunications industry before returning to sports to cover the Oakland Athletics. He then reported for the ''

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'' from 2001 to 2002, covering the

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, before joining the '' Boston Herald'' as a columnist from 2002 to 2005. Bryant left the ''Herald'' for the ''

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'', where he covered the

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from 2005 to 2007. He joined ESPN in August 2007.

Books and film appearances

In 2002, Bryant published his first book, ''Shut Out: A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston,'' which won the

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for the best baseball book of 2002 and was a finalist for the Society for American Baseball Research's Seymour Medal. In 2005, he published ''Juicing the Game: Drugs, Power, and the Fight for the Soul of Major League Baseball,'' which was ''

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'' Notable Book of 2005. ''The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron'' was published in 2010, which also won the CASEY Award and was a ''

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'' of 2010. Bryant appeared in '' The Tenth Inning'', Ken Burns's extension of his 1994 documentary ''Baseball''. Bryant was arrested in 2011 for allegedly assaulting his wife in front of their then 6-year-old son.

Works

*''Shut Out: A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston'' (2003) *''Juicing the Game: Drugs, Power, and the Fight for the Soul of Major League Baseball'' (2006) *''The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron'' (2010) *''The Heritage: Black Athletes, a Divided America, and the Politics of Patriotism'' (2018) *''Full Dissidence: Notes from an Uneven Playing Field '' (2020) *''Rickey: The Life and Legend of an American Original '' (2022)

References

External links

Official website

ESPN bio
* ''Radio Interview with Howard Bryant on "Read First, Ask Later" (Ep. 13)
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