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Dan Spears
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Sports Editor, StarNews
Wilmington
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Biography
Deputy Sports Strategist for Gannett/USA TODAY Center for Community Journalism, focused on high school sports strategy, editors and reporters. First Vice President of AP Sports Editors organization Previously with the Wilmington StarNews since August 2006 as sports editor, AME, digital editor. Stop 4 on my life's Southern Tour. Previous appearances in Augusta, Ga., (Aug. 2002-Aug. 2006), Hagerstown, Md. (Feb. 1998-July 2002) and Anderson, S.C. (May 1995-Feb. 1998). 🏳🌈 Runner, golfer, college basketball aficionado.
Baseball, ACC Wilmington NC, UNC Wilmington Athletics , High School Sports, Golf, College Basketball , Running
Daily news, opinion
Content
By Dan Spears Verified| apsportseditors.com@ Olivia Janik will hop on I-94 West this June for the 270-mile drive from Madison, Wis., to Minneapolis and arrive at the 2025 APSE Summer Conference as the Naila-Jean Meyers Grant recipient. The APSE and Minnesota Star Tribune are pleased to honor both Janik, a first-year sports reporter at the Wisconsin State Journal, and Meyers, the 2023-2024 APSE President and Deputy Sports Editor at the Star Tribune. Janik was chosen from a pool of finalists by a group of Star Tribune editors.
By Dan Spears Verified| The Augusta Chronicle Verified While Justin Rose holds the dubious distinction of losing a pair of Masters Tournament playoffs, there may be few in the game equipped to handle it like him. The 44-year-old fell to Rory McIlroy on the first playoff hole of the 2025 Masters Tournament, mirroring his outcome in 2017 against Sergio Garcia. Following a stellar 65 in Thursday’s opening round, Rose seemed to fade after stumbling through the second nine Saturday.
By Dan Spears Verified| The Augusta Chronicle Verified It wasn't easy. And over the past decade for Rory McIlroy, it never has been. But on Sunday afternoon at Augusta National Golf Club, the Irishman's Masters dreams became real life. Shrugging off two more mystifying double bogeys, McIlroy twice righted the ship and fended off Justin Rose in the final round of the 89th Masters Tournament, winning with a birdie in a playoff to beat Justin Rose.
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