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Jun 13, 2024 · Mike Downey, a longtime sports writer who wrote the Chicago Tribune’s “In the Wake of the News” column from 2003 to 2008, died Wednesday in California at age 72.
Mike Downey (August 9, 1951 – June 12, 2024) was an American newspaper columnist. He was known for his columns in the Chicago area, such as writing pieces for the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times and Chicago Daily News. In his later years, he began writing for the Los Angeles Times and CNN.
Jun 14, 2024 · Mike Downey was a former Daily News, Sun-Times and Tribune sportswriter. Mike Downey was one of my sportswriting heroes. My first job out of college was at Star Publications in the south suburbs ...
- Rick Morrissey
- rmorrissey@suntimes.com
Jun 17, 2024 · When enough was enough, he tried retirement, then bobbed back to the surface at the Chicago Tribune. It seemed like an appropriate finish line for an almost native son, but Chi-town, for all its virtues, was still Ring Lardner’s town.
Jun 14, 2024 · Mike Downey, a sports columnist in Detroit and Chicago before writing for the Los Angeles Times for 15 years, died of a heart attack at age 72.
- sam.farmer@latimes.com
- Staff Writer
Mike Downey, who returned home to Chicago in 2003 as a Tribune sports columnist, is leaving the paper. "The Tribune was generous enough to make me one of the best-paid sportswriters in the...
Jun 14, 2024 · Mike Downey, a sports columnist in Detroit and Chicago before writing for the Los Angeles Times for 15 years, died of a heart attack at age 72.
