Loren Tate

Loren Tate
Born (1931-11-03) November 3, 1931 (age 93)[1]
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Illinois
OccupationFootball/Basketball sports journalist
Years active1966-present
Employer(s)Champaign News-Gazette
WDWS
Spouse(s)Ilene Gadbury Tate Gasser[2]
Lex Tate
Children4 (3 through Gasser, 1 through Tate)[3]

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

  1. ^ "Loren Tate turns 80". 3 November 2011.
  2. ^ "Lex Tate | the man behind Tatelines". 6 May 2021.
  3. ^ "Why stop now? Sports scribe and radio host Loren Tate, 91, wouldn't know how if he tried". 31 January 2023.
  4. ^ "Loren Tate is retiring from writing at the News-Gazette -". 14 September 2017.
  5. ^ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/newsgazette/photos/a.10157050482237890/10157585164607890. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. ^ "N-G's Tate named to U.S. Basketball Writers Hall of Fame". 27 January 2021.
  7. ^ A Century of Orange and Blue: Celebrating 100 Years of Fighting Illini Basketball. Sports Publishing LLC. 2004. ISBN 978-1-58261-793-0.
  8. ^ Tatelines. News-Gazette, Incorporated. August 2008. ISBN 978-0-9798420-4-7.


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