“I think it shows the power of social media,” she said. “She did a lot of firsts,” says George Solomon, Brennan’s former sports editor at the Washington Post, who served as assistant managing editor for sports from 1975 to 2003.
“Work-life balance? “As long as this high-wire act continues, I’m not going to stop it.” Twitter.”Although Brennan is well-known as a journalist, she does not want to be known as a workaholic. He strongly supported the passage of Title IX. The excitement is not lost on Christine Brennan, a sportswriter with a penchant for competition, on the field and at the ballot box.Sportswriter Christine Brennan (left) speaks with Stanford student reporters, including reporter Kaitlyn Landgraf (right), during Super Bowl 50 media preparation in February.
Christine Brennan (born May 14, 1958) is a sports columnist for USA Today, a commentator on ABC News, CNN, PBS NewsHour and NPR, and a best-selling author. “But the idea of having our first woman president is an extraordinary opportunity, and the message that would send to every girl in America is pretty cool.”Brennan also served as the first president of the Association for Women in Sports Media, which awards around six scholarships each year to young women sports journalists. She compares the preparation and hype surrounding Super Tuesday to that of the Super Bowl: “When I say it’s a game, I know it’s our election and I don’t want to make light of it,” she says, but “that’s the allure of a night like tonight.”After 35 years as a sports journalist, Brennan knows what makes for a good contest. Growing up, “Aunt Chris was a third parental figure,” said Brennan’s niece Leslie Backoff, 23, who lives and works in D.C. near her aunt.Brennan’s roots are in the suburbs of Toledo, Ohio, where she grew up as the eldest of four siblings in a red-brick home on an acre of land. “As I recall, I thought he had a rival book coming out on tennis, and he was trashing a book on tennis.”Brennan handles criticism — whether it’s from Foster Wallace or Internet trolls — with ease.
“I’m a realist, not fatalistic. “It’s what I’m most proud of because it’s probably the last thing that will ever be written about my parents,” she said.In 1992, Brennan co-wrote “Beyond Center Court” with tennis prodigy Tracy Austin, which David Foster Wallace famously vivisected in his essay, “How Tracy Austin Broke My Heart,” where he described the book as “breathtakingly insipid” and “inanimate.” “He ripped it to shreds, didn’t he?” Brennan said wryly. But her most striking feature is her voice: it is deep and mellow, and Brennan speaks with authority and measure, but with perceptible warmth. “I’m amazed my career continues to have these high wire moments,” she says, as many of her former colleagues have left journalism due to buyouts, layoffs or burnout.“The key to her success is she loves what she’s doing,” Solomon said. Now, after Manning’s win in the 2016 Super Bowl, the allegations have resurfaced. In 2003, Brennan wrote a column about football quarterback Peyton Manning entitled, “Do You Really Know Your Sports Hero?” The column examined allegations of sexual assault against Manning, but the issue was largely ignored at the time. The bill, signed by President Nixon in 1972, requires gender equity for boys and girls in every educational program that receives federal funding, including athletics.Before the law, “we were basically telling girls for generations ‘No, you cannot play those sports.’ What were we thinking as a nation?” Brennan said. Sportswriter Christine Brennan (left) speaks with Stanford student reporters, including reporter Kaitlyn Landgraf (right), during Super Bowl 50 media preparation in February.