Loren Burton Tate is a sports journalist covering the Illinois Fighting Illini. He began working for the News-Gazette in 1966 and retired from most writing in 2017,[4] but continues to write a Sunday column and participate in a radio show.[5] Tate was inducted into the Illinois Basketball Coaches Hall of Fame in 1974 and later inducted into the U.S. Basketball Writers Association Hall of Fame in 2021.[6]
Works
- A Century of Orange and Blue - with Jared Gelfond (Sports Pub. L.L.C., 2004)[7]
- Tatelines (The News-Gazette, 2008)[8]
References
- ^ "Loren Tate turns 80". 3 November 2011.
- ^ "Lex Tate | the man behind Tatelines". 6 May 2021.
- ^ "Why stop now? Sports scribe and radio host Loren Tate, 91, wouldn't know how if he tried". 31 January 2023.
- ^ "Loren Tate is retiring from writing at the News-Gazette -". 14 September 2017.
- ^ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/newsgazette/photos/a.10157050482237890/10157585164607890.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ "N-G's Tate named to U.S. Basketball Writers Hall of Fame". 27 January 2021.
- ^ A Century of Orange and Blue: Celebrating 100 Years of Fighting Illini Basketball. Sports Publishing LLC. 2004. ISBN 978-1-58261-793-0.
- ^ Tatelines. News-Gazette, Incorporated. August 2008. ISBN 978-0-9798420-4-7.
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