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	Dick Schaap - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		After his death in 2001, the autobiography was reissued under Schaap's original title- "Dick Schaap as Told to Dick Schaap: 50 years of Headlines, Deadlines and Punchlines," to coordinate with many of his previous titles.
		In a news conference in 2005, Fischer claimed that Schaap was a father figure, but that didn't stop him from hurling anti-Semitic insults at Schaap's son, Jeremy, a correspondent with ESPN.
		Schaap died at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan after complications from what was supposed to have been routine hip replacement surgery.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dick_Schaap (661 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Dick Schaap (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Dick Schaap, 67, a pioneering journalist and sports broadcaster who was a thoughtful and prolific writer on a wide variety of subjects, died yesterday in a New York hospital following complications from hip replacement surgery in September.
		Schaap was a noted raconteur, an entertaining speaker and a man who must have set a record for name-dropping -- 531 -- in a single volume when he published his critically acclaimed autobiography.
		Schaap moved into broadcasting with NBC from 1971 to 1980, serving as a correspondent for "NBC Nightly News" and "Today" and as editor and frequent contributor to Sport magazine from 1973 to 1977, when it was probably at its peak.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Dick-Schaap (2299 words)

	ESPN.com - Schaap was a pioneer ... and a good guy
		Dick Schaap was one of the very best journalists of his generation, a man whose career reflected the enormous generational changes in his profession forced upon it by technology.
		Dick Schaap was one of the first sports journalists to recognize the coming of a racial revolution in America in the 1960s.
		Dick, it was clear, though we were almost exactly the same age and had covered many of the same things, had had a great deal more fun than I had had over the years.
	sports.espn.go.com /espn/print?id=1300821&type=page2Story (1630 words)

	Jeremy Schaap - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Schaap is an Emmy award winner for his work as the host of Outside the Lines, a sports news and interviews program, on ESPN.
		A native and current resident of New York City, Schaap is the author of Cinderella Man: James J. Braddock, Max Baer, and the Greatest Upset in Boxing History (Houghton Mifflin, ISBN 0-618-55117-4), a New York Times best-seller.
		Schaap is the son of the late journalist and broadcaster Dick Schaap.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jeremy_Schaap (198 words)

	Dick Schaap (1934-2001)
		Schaap departed this world on December 21, 2001, after suffering complications relating to his hip replacement surgery.
		It was as a result of this that Schaap would proudly proclaim to all who would listen that he was the only person in the media who voted for both the Tony Awards and the Heisman Trophy Award.
		Schaap exited this world with what is widely believed to be more friends and acquaintances than any Head of State in the last 50 years.
	www.thediamondangle.com /archive/jan02/schaap.html (998 words)

	CNNSI.com - More Sports - Longtime broadcaster Schaap dies at 67 - Saturday December 22, 2001 03:43 PM
		Schaap took a job at Newsweek and then went to the New York Herald Tribune, where he was a city editor and then a columnist until the paper folded in 1966.
		Schaap's strength, in addition to a prodigious appetite for work and painstaking attention to detail, was his ability to spot trends, Breslin said.
		Schaap was host of ESPN's "Sports Reporters," and "The Sporting Life With Dick Schaap" on ESPN Radio.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /more/news/2001/12/21/schaap_obit_ap (572 words)

	'Flashing Before My Eyes': Dick Schaap (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Dick Schaap: The greatest of all time was and is Muhammed Ali in the ring or at the end of a question.
		Dick Schaap: College and pro football are slightly different sports, and the attributes that produce a great college player are not always the same as the ones that produce a great pro player.
		Dick Schaap: That was a terrific team in the '60s, but the Dodgers also had terrific teams in the '50s, and certainly the present day Yankees measure up to those teams, just as the Yankees of the 1950s did.
	www.usatoday.com /community/chat/0110schaap.htm (1752 words)

	USATODAY.com - Dick Schaap dead at age 67 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Schaap's subjects covered the spectrum — from comedian Sid Caesar, who fought back from drug and alcohol addiction, to Bobby McLaughlin, a young man convicted of a murder he did not commit.
		Schaap, who played lacrosse at Cornell, was inducted into the university's athletic Hall of Fame, and he won one of the Columbia Journalism School's 50th Anniversary Awards as well as an Alumni Award for Career Achievement.
		Schaap was always a man on the move, hopscotching from Newsweek to the New York Herald Tribune, where he was city editor and then a columnist.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/_stories/2001-12-21-obit-schaap.htm (706 words)

	ESPN Classic - Schaap was storyteller, collector of people
		Dick Schaap, whose humorous, often brutally honest approach to sports made him one of the most beloved, respected and honored journalists of the past half century, died Friday from post-operative complications after hip replacement surgery.
		Schaap was born in Brooklyn and grew up in Freeport, Long Island, a "clam-diggers" town as he described it.
		Schaap, who is survived by his wife Trish, also was a senior editor for Newsweek, editor of Sport magazine, which ceased publishing in 2000, and was sports editor for Parade magazine.
	espn.go.com /classic/obit/s/2001/1019/1266418.html (1786 words)

	APSE \| Associated Press Sports Editors
		Schaap, who died in December, is the 2002 winner of the Associated Press Sports Editors Red Smith Award, for extended meritorious service to sports journalism.
		Schaap's son, Jeremy, a sportscaster at ESPN, said his father was a Renaissance man, equally at ease talking about world affairs or pennant races.
		Schaap also won his fourth sports Emmy in April, this one for his autobiography, "Flashing Before My Eyes." The Emmy is called the Dick Schaap Outstanding Writing Award.
	apse.dallasnews.com /jun2002/20-21bock.html (701 words)

	Schaap to be inducted into CSSS Hall of Fame (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Three-time Emmy Award-winner Dick Schaap will be inducted into the Center for the Study of Sport in Society Hall of Fame this fall for his pioneering work in sports journalism during the past five decades, officials said this week.
		Schaap will be honored at Sport in Society's 17th annual awards banquet and Hall of Fame induction ceremony Nov. 7 at the Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel.
		Schaap will be the eighth sports personality — and the first non-athlete — to be inducted into the Hall of Fame.
	www.whatsnew.neu.edu /0108/schaap21.html (454 words)

	Celebrities and Medical Malpractice
		Dick Schaap, legendary sports writer and broadcaster, went in for a routine hip replacement surgery at the prestigious Lenox Hill hospital in New York in 2001.
		Schaap contracted an infection at the hospital and died three months later at the age of 67.
		It's devastating that this is the way he had to die.” The Schaap family filed a lawsuit and the jury found the doctors negligent in their care for Schaap and awarded the family $1.9.
	www.centerjd.org /free/mythbusters-free/MB_celebritymedmal.htm (468 words)

	Perspective: Schaap does himself well
		Schaap, the host of ESPN's The Sports Reporters, has been a correspondent for several television networks and is the author of more than 30 books.
		And that is the essence of Dick Schaap.
		Schaap provides, of course, samples of his half-century of writing and broadcasting, not so much as to make one think, "All right, I get the point," but rather to wish he had included more.
	www.sptimes.com /News/021801/Perspective/Schaap_does_himself_w.shtml (622 words)

	NetShrine Discussion Forum - View Single Post - Dick Schaap's Passing
		Dick Schaap, the affable and ubiquitous journalist who introduced an 18-year-old Cassius Clay to Harlem, coined the term Fun City for New York and embodied the role of the "as told to" writer of autobiographies, including his own, died yesterday at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan.
		Schaap, who was 67, had complications after hip replacement surgery that resulted in acute respiratory distress syndrome, according to his family.
		Schaap's memoir into a two-hour documentary that he was the host for, enabling him to talk about himself and his vast collection of friends.
	www.netshrine.com /vbulletin2/showpost.php?p=17512&postcount=2 (1063 words)

	The Cornell Daily Sun Alumni Association -- 'America's Oldest Independent College Newspaper'
		Dick Schaap, journalist and commentator who mastered every medium from newspapers to books to television, as well as the delicate art of interviewing some of the most difficult personalities in sports, has died.
		A Brooklyn native, Schaap played goalie for the Cornell University's lacrosse team, boasting in his 2001 autobiography that he "stopped" future NFL Hall of Famer Jim Brown in a match against Syracuse-- saving three of seven shots by Brown.
		Schaap branched into television in the 1970s, working as a correspondent for "NBC Nightly News" and the "Today" show before moving over to ABC and ESPN.
	www.chesslaw.com /cornellsun/dickschaap-latimes.htm (894 words)

	ESPN Classic - Writers remember Dick Schaap
		Dick Schaap was the biggest name-dropper in the world.
		One of the best things I can say about Dick Schaap is that he was the same in the work environment as he was in a personal setting.
		Schaap shot the breeze with sportswriter/novelist Mike Lupica the same way he chatted up a group of his Lawrence friends while stuffing his face at Don's Steakhouse.
	espn.go.com /classic/obit/schaap_remembering_122201.html (988 words)

	Overlawyered: Another thought on the Dick Schaap lawsuit
		While Schaap's family lawyer at trial blamed three doctors for failing to diagnose lung damage from use of the medicine amiodarone (and the jury mysteriously held one doctor negligent while exonerating the other two), just two years earlier, the Schaap family and its lawyer had a different story to tell.
		Then, the family announced, Dick Schaap was killed because of an infection caused by the hospital's lack of adequate hygiene standards.
		Unfortunately for the Schaaps, the theory didn't stand up and the hospital was dismissed from the case, but not before ABC Primetime Live credulously reported in 2003 the supposed scandal of the hospital's failure to prevent a "velociraptor"-like infection.
	www.overlawyered.com /2005/07/another_thought_on_the_dick_sc.html (432 words)

	[Deathwatch] Dick Schaap, sports writer, 67
		Schaap died of complications from a hip replacement surgery at a New York hospital, according to ESPN, the network that carried a weekly radio program co-hosted by Schaap and his son Jeremy.
		Schaap rose to fame in the era of New Journalism in the 1960s, along with other fabled writers and editors at the defunct New York Herald Tribune, including Tom Wolfe and Gail Sheehy, borrowing from the techniques of a novelist.
		Schaap was admired for his ability to tell a story while striking up lasting friendships with the subjects of his profiles, including boxing legend Muhammed Ali, comic Lenny Bruce and Joe Namath, who led the upstart New York Jets to a Super Bowl victory in 1969.
	www.slick.org /deathwatch/mailarchive/msg00610.html (606 words)

	Books \| Dick Schaap
		Dick Schaap, who has died, aged 67, of a respiratory infection, was one of America's great sportswriters, although most of his best work was done outside daily papers, and much of it transcended sport.
		Schaap, a former theatre critic for ABC television, boasted he was the only man who voted for both Broadway's Tony Awards and gridiron's Heisman Trophy.
		And once "done" by Schaap, his subjects became friends, part of a circle of people, famous or not, from whom he could mine the raw material of life.
	books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4332443-103684,00.html (650 words)

	CNN.com - Books - Dick Schaap recalls his life -- and a half-century of journalism - January 17, 2001
		Schaap was born in Depression-era Brooklyn, New York.
		Over the years, Schaap learned to be what he calls a "people collector." He makes friends with the people he meets and tells their story.
		Schaap has gone on to witness some of the greatest moments in sports: the 1967 Ice Bowl between the Green Bay Packers and Dallas Cowboys; Pittsburgh Pirate Bill Mazeroski's bottom-of-the-ninth homer to defeat the New York Yankees in Game 7 of the 1960 World Series; Ali-Frazier III in Manila.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/books/news/01/17/dick.schaap (1183 words)

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		Schaap had helped raise millions for area charities, especially for the handicapped and the homeless, as he served as master of ceremonies for dozens and dozens of charity golf and tennis tournaments over the last 17 years.
		Schaap spent a good part of his time in between his books, television work and speaking engagements, serving as MC at these events with laughter and stories.
		Schaap was absent and gone now and Crystal reminded the audience of one of his favorite lines when he would end a phone conversation.
	www.thecolumnists.com /allen/allen15.html (819 words)

	The American Sportscasters Association-Becoming a Sportscaster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Schaap was host of "The Sporting Life With Dick Schaap" on ESPN Radio, host of "Schaap One on One" on ESPN Classic, and co-hosted ESPN's "Sports Reporters" with his son, Jeremy.
		A native of Brooklyn, Schaap graduated from Cornell University in 1955 and attended the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
		Schaap worked for Newsweek from 1959 to 1963, then at the New York Herald Tribune from 1964 to 1966, first as city editor and later as a columnist.
	www.americansportscasters.com /schaap.html (209 words)

	STERLING INTERNATIONAL SPEAKERS BUREAU - Dick Schaap
		Schaap also won the Northeastern Award for Excellence in Broadcast Sports Journalism in 1986 and the Women's Sports Foundation Award for Excellence in covering Women in Sports in 1984.
		Schaap's weekly shows on ESPN, The Sports Reporters, in which he orchestrates a round-table discussion among sportswriters, and Schaap Talk, in which he interviews one guest and integrates phone calls from viewers, have both become favorites among sports fans, athletes and coaches.
		Schaap's background helps to explain his versatility: He has been city editor of The New York Herald Tribune, senior editor of Newsweek, editor of Sport Magazine, correspondent for NBC News and co-host of The Joe Namath Show, in addition to his present duties.
	www.sterlingspeakers.com /schaap.htm (621 words)

	12/22/01: A quick story about Dick Schaap (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Dick Schaap saw it that way, and voted that way, making Jim Brown his pick for the Heisman.
		Schaap was so angered by the cowardice and blind ignorance of his fellow writers, he boycotted the Heisman voting for over a quarter of a century.
		Dick Schaap was a great man in a simple, unaffecting way.
	www.mrcranky.com /movies/joesomebody/30/1.html (175 words)

	International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame
		Upon his sudden passing, ESPN, The Magazine wrote: Dick Schaap was known "for his humorous, often brutally honest approach to sports".
		Schaap was awarded a CableACE Award as Best Commentator/Analyst for his work on ESPN, and the Women’s Sports Foundation honored him “for excellence in covering women’s sports”.
		Dick Schaap graduated from Cornell University in 1955 and attended the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism on a Grantland Rice Memorial Fellowship.
	www.jewishsports.net /BioPages/DickSchaap.htm (439 words)

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