Terence Moore

Terence Moore is an American sports journalist based in Atlanta, where he also is a visiting professor of journalism at Georgia State University. Starting in 2014, he spent seven years in that same role at Miami (Ohio) University, his alma mater. For more than four decades, he has been noted for his work over the airways, through cyberspace and in print. He has appeared on national and local television, including ''The Oprah Winfrey Show'', CNN, and various ESPN shows, most prominently "Outside The Lines." He was a frequent guest on ESPN's ''Jim Rome Is Burning''

Moore also appeared regularly on "The Ed Show" among other MSNBC entities, and he is part of various episodes of the NFL Network's Top Ten list, along with multiple "30 for 30" shows on ESPN. In addition, he has a regular segment every Sunday night on the highly rated "Sports Zone" show, which appears on Atlanta's WSB-TV (Channel 2), the most-watched ABC affiliate in the country. As for the Internet, Moore is a national columnist for Forbes.com after serving in that same role for AOL FanHouse, Sports on Earth.com, MLB.com and CNN.com. He also is a contributing editor to Atlanta Magazine.

Moore worked for ''The Atlanta Journal-Constitution'' (AJC) for nearly 25 years, where he was a sports columnist, from December 1984 through April 2009, when he took a voluntary buyout to devote his time to television and Internet work.(27 April 2009)
To Braves, Hawks, Falcons, Thrashers: Good is for losers (Editors Note)
, ''The Atlanta Journal-Constitution'', Retrieved November 29, 2010About Terence Moore
, ''The Atlanta Journal-Constitution'', Retrieved November 29, 2010 He has covered more than 30 Super Bowls, numerous World Series, Olympic Games, NBA Finals, Final Fours, Indianapolis 500s, championship fights, major golf tournaments and other sporting events.

Prior to joining the AJC, he spent five years at ''The San Francisco Examiner'', where he covered the San Francisco Giants, Oakland Raiders, the San Francisco 49ers and wrote columns during his last two years at the paper. Prior to going to San Francisco, Moore spent three years at ''The Cincinnati Enquirer'', where he covered Indiana University and Purdue University sports, the Cincinnati Reds and Xavier University basketball.

Among the many awards Moore has received, he was honored in 1999 by the National Association of Black Journalists for ranking as the longest-running African-American sports columnist in the history of major newspapers. He was the first full-time black sports reporter for both ''The Cincinnati Enquirer'' and ''The San Francisco Examiner,'' and at the AJC, he became the first Black general sports columnist in the history of The South. He also became the first African American ever to cover an NFL team on a full-time basis for a major metropolitan newspaper when he was given the Oakland Raiders beat in 1980 by the San Francisco Examiner. In addition, he has voted for Baseball Hall of Famers since 1991, which is the longest stretch ever for a Black member of the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA).

Moore was born in South Bend, Ind., but courtesy of his father who was transferred several times across the Midwest as an AT&T supervisor, Moore went to high school in Cincinnati and in Chicago before he finished his prep days in Milwaukee, where he starred in baseball and football and became news editor of the high school newspaper.

Moore later majored in Economics at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where he graduated in 1978 with a bachelor's degree in business. He was the first Black writer in the history of what is the oldest college newspaper in the United States west of the Alleghenies, and he was with the paper for four years, the last 1 1/2 years as sports editor.Terence Moore '78
''Miamian'' (Summer 2009), Retrieved November 29, 2010

In addition to teaching, writing and broadcasting, Moore is a prolific author. He wrote highly acclaimed books called "The Real Hank Aaron: An Intimate Look at the Life and Legacy of the Home Run King" and "Red Brick Magic: Sean McVay, John Harbaugh and Miami University's Cradle of Coaches." He has two more books set to be published during the late spring and early summer of 2026. One is the autobiography of Tubby Smith, the college basketball coaching legend. The other is filled with revelations and personal stories about the Big Red Machine, those Cincinnati Reds teams Moore hugged as a youth during the 1970s before covering them and later developing close relationships with several Machine cogs, including Pete Rose.

Baseball Hall of Famer Marty Brenneman, who was the Reds' radio voice from 1974 to 2019, did the foreword for Moore's Big Red Machine book, and Brenneman said the book is filled with fresh and riveting stories. That includes the last chapter, which Brenneman said "is 70% dominated by stuff I've never heard before, and I thought I've heard everything about that team."
.Washington, Wayne (1 February 2010)

''The State (newspaper)'', Retrieved November 29, 2010 ("Terrence Moore, a former Atlanta Journal-Constitution columnist who now writes for AOL Fanhouse...")Terence Moore - FanHouse Columnist
''FanHouse'', Retrieved November 29, 2010

References

External links

* http://www.sportsonearth.com/writer/terence_moore
* http://mlb.mlb.com/news/columnists/?id=terence_moore

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Living people
Miami University alumni
The Cincinnati Enquirer people
Year of birth missing (living people)
African-American sportswriters
Sportswriters from Georgia (U.S. state)