Jamie trecker biography
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Trecker, Jamie
PERSONAL:
Male.
ADDRESSES:
Home—Chicago, IL. E-mail—[email protected].
CAREER:
Journalist and sports writer. Fox Sports, Chicago, IL, senior soccer writer.
WRITINGS:
Love and Blood: At the World Cup with the Footballers, Fans, and Freaks, Harcourt (Orlando, FL), 2007.
Contributor to a number of periodicals. Writer for the Fox Sports Blog.
SIDELIGHTS:
Jamie Trecker is a journalist and sports writer. Based in Chicago, Illinois, Trecker is a contributor to a number of periodicals and magazines around the United States. He is a senior soccer writer for Fox Sports and contributes regularly to the network's Fox Sports Blog.
Trecker published his first book, Love and Blood: At the World Cup with the Footballers, Fans, and Freaks, in 2007. The book gives an account of the FIFA World Cup in 2006 held in Germany. Trecker covers general information about the sport, its history in the United States and throughout the world, player profiles, and a bit
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As journalism goes, prestige is rewarded to those who interview heads of state or land cushy jobs commenting on the sociopolitical ramifications of pop starlet meltdowns. Find your way to the anchor desk, and you can have the status without the requisite muck of actually reporting in the field. That last part may be unfair, but it remains true enough to be said.
Yet some of the best journalism, certainly some of the best writing, belongs to the sportswriters. Theirs is the “toy department”, that mocking term for the sports desk at your city paper, so called because these reporters don’t cover serious subjects. They write about boys (and occasionally girls) who play games. They are multibillion dollar games, yes, but if a man hits a ball with a stick, what does that have to do with the great issues of our time? Volumes have been written on baseball and cricket and how they reflect the soul of their respective nations.
And what if a man kicks a ball into a net? That For anyone who h
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Harleigh Trecker
American social worker, academic, and administrator
Harleigh Bradley Trecker (1911–1986) was an Americansocial work academic and administrator who served as the dean of the School of Social Work at the University of Connecticut from 1951 to 1968.[1] UConn's campus library in Hartford was named in his honor until it closed in 2017.[2]
Early life and education
[edit]Trecker was born on February 11, 1911, in Cabery, Illinois, the son of William Henry and Henrietta Trecker. He received his Bachelor of Arts grad from George Williams College in 1934 and his Master of Science grad from the University of Chicago in 1938.[3]
Career
[edit]Trecker taught at George Williams College from 1938 to 1941, when he accepted a position on the faculty of the University of Southern California. He served as dean of the School of Social Work at the University of Connecticut from 1951 to 1968. He returned to the faculty as Professor of Social