Ring Lardner Awards Dinner for Excellence in Sports Journalism<\/a> April 1 at the Union League Club of Chicago. Presenting the award will be her former husband and retired CBS 2 sports anchor Johnny Morris.<\/p>\nAlso honored will be Sun-Times columnist Rick Telander, whose presenter will be Frank Deford, and the late WGN broadcaster Lloyd Pettit, whose presenter will be Pat Foley.<\/p>\n
The awards, founded in 2002 by the Chicago Athletic Association, honor broadcasters and writers who \u201cexemplify the wit and warmth of Ring Lardner\u2019s writing.\u201d A world famous sportswriter, humorist and satirist, Lardner wrote for The Sporting News, the Saturday Evening Post and the Chicago Tribune\u2019s \u201cIn the Wake of the News\u201d column.<\/p>\n
Proceeds from the annual event benefit the Union League Boys & Girls Clubs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
News that trailblazing sports broadcaster and journalist Jeannie Morris was named the first female recipient of a Ring Lardner Award was cheered Tuesday by two who followed in her path. Starting in 1967 \u2014 at a time when women were virtually nonexistent in sportscasting \u2014 Morris spent 24 years as a sports reporter, producer and... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2302"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2310,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302\/revisions\/2310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}