Loren Tate Explained

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]

Notes and References

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