Editing Dick Schaap (section)

==Career==
Schaap began work as assistant sports editor of ''[[Newsweek]]''.  In 1964, he began a thrice-weekly column concerning current events. He became editor of ''[[Sport (US magazine)|SPORT]]'' magazine in 1973. It was then that he set in motion the inspiration for the eccentricities of Media Day at the [[Super Bowl]]. Opposing the grandiose and self-important nature of the [[National Football League]]'s championship match, he hired two [[Los Angeles Rams]] players, [[Fred Dryer]] and [[Lance Rentzel]], to cover [[Super Bowl IX]]. Donning costumes inspired by ''[[The Front Page]]'', "Scoops Brannigan" (Dryer) and "Cubby O'Switzer" (Rentzel) peppered players and coaches from both the Minnesota Vikings and [[Pittsburgh Steelers]] with questions that ranged from the [[cliché]]d to the downright absurd.<ref name="la obit" /> <ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1755&dat=19750110&id=JLEqAAAAIBAJ&sjid=8WYEAAAAIBAJ&pg=7167,3910316&hl=en "Rentzel, Dryer Find A Way To Super Bowl," ''The Associated Press'', Friday, January 10, 1975.]</ref> Schaap was also a [[theatre]] [[critic]], causing him to quip that he was the only person ever to vote for both the [[Tony Awards]] and the [[Heisman Trophy]]. He interviewed non-sports people such as [[Matthew Broderick]] and produced cultural features for ABC's overnight news program ''[[World News Now]]''.

After spending the 1970s with [[NBC]] as an ''[[NBC Nightly News]]'' and ''[[Today (NBC program)|Today Show]]'' correspondent, he moved to ''[[ABC World News Tonight]]'' and ''[[20/20 (US television series)|20/20]]'' at [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] in the 1980s. He earned five [[Emmy Award]]s, for profiles of [[Sid Caesar]] and [[Tom Waddell]], two for reporting, and for writing. In 1988 he began hosting ''[[The Sports Reporters]]'' on ESPN [[cable television]], which in later years often featured his son Jeremy as a correspondent. He also hosted ''Schaap One on One'' on [[ESPN Classic]] and a syndicated ESPN Radio program called ''The Sporting Life with Dick Schaap'', in which he discussed the week's developments in sports with Jeremy. He also occasionally served as a substitute anchor for ABC's late night newscast, ''[[World News Now]]''.

He wrote the 1968 best-seller ''[[Instant Replay (book)|Instant Replay]]'', co-authored with [[Jerry Kramer]] of the [[Green Bay Packers]], and ''I Can't Wait Until Tomorrow... 'Cause I Get Better-Looking Every Day'', the 1969 [[autobiography]] of [[New York Jets|New York Jet]] [[Joe Namath]]. These resulted in a stint as co-host of ''[[The Joe Namath Show]]'', which in turn led to his hiring as sports anchor for [[WNBC-TV]]. Other books included a biography of [[Robert F. Kennedy]]; ''.44'' (with [[Jimmy Breslin]]), a fictionalized account of the hunt for [[Son of Sam]] killer [[David Berkowitz]]; ''Turned On'', about upper middle-class drug abuse; ''An Illustrated History of the Olympics'', a coffee-table book on the history of the modern [[Olympic Games]]; ''The Perfect Jump'', on the world record-breaking long jump by [[Bob Beamon]] in the [[1968 Summer Olympics]]; ''My Aces, My Faults'' with [[Nick Bollettieri]]; ''Steinbrenner!'', a biography of mercurial [[New York Yankees]] owner [[George Steinbrenner]]; and ''[[Bo Knows Bo]]'' with [[Bo Jackson]]. His autobiography, ''Flashing Before My Eyes: 50 Years of Headlines, Deadlines & Punchlines'', was reissued under Schaap's original title "Dick Schaap as Told to Dick Schaap: 50 years of Headlines, Deadlines and Punchlines."