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Posted 2009-08-31

Colleges Hire Official 'Sports Writers'

By Dustin Dopirak

HARRISONBURG - The weirdest transition for Jeff White was his work apparel. Journalism requires unbiased objectivity, so a cardinal rule of being a sports writer is to give no one reason to believe you're a fan of a team you cover. That means not wearing anything resembling the team's school colors and certainly not donning anything with the team's logo on it. Ever. So it felt a little odd to White, who recently joined the University of V...

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