Mechelle Voepel has covered women’s basketball since 1984, when she began her journalism career at the University of Missouri, graduating from there with a degree in journalism in 1987. She joined ESPN.com in 1996 as a women’s college and pro basketball writer, and since has also covered additional college sports. She has covered both the… Read more »
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Ken White
Decades ago, he was the photographer for President Harry S. Truman in Independence and, in 1964 after a press conference, was invited on stage by John Lennon for the only Beatles concert in Kansas City. However, Ken White’s calling was the outdoors, and he always loved to write about it. “I got interested in both… Read more »
Amadee Wohlschlaeger
Nationally, Amadee achieved stature as a sports cartoonist as he spent a half-century drawing St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s wisecracking Page One tradition, The Weatherbird. drawing skills and humor provided portrait likenesses and humorous sports-page editorials. For years, the artist drew first-page cartoons weekly for The Sporting News. For more than 30 years, he provided the color… Read more »
Ed Wray
Ed Wray was a sportswriter who was known for his column, “Wray’s Column” in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. His career spanned 55 years. He focused mainly on horse racing, boxing, and football, particularly the history of the forward pass. The first legal forward pass was thrown by Bradbury Robinson of St. Louis University in 1906… Read more »