{"id":496,"date":"2008-06-27T07:29:28","date_gmt":"2008-06-27T12:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homepages.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2008\/06\/27\/legendary-sportswriter-putting-away-his-pen\/"},"modified":"2016-01-15T15:46:04","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T15:46:04","slug":"legendary-sportswriter-putting-away-his-pen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2008\/06\/legendary-sportswriter-putting-away-his-pen\/","title":{"rendered":"Legendary sportswriter putting away his pen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/davecampbell-june08.jpg\" alt=\"Dave Campbell\" align=\"right\" \/>Legendary sportswriter Dave Campbell, creator of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dave_Campbell's_Texas_Football\" target=\"_blank\">Dave Campbell&#8217;s Texas Football Magazine<\/a><\/em>, and longtime sports editor of the <em>Waco Tribune-Herald<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wacotrib.com\/news\/content\/news\/stories\/2008\/06\/08\/06082008waccampbell.html?imw=Y\" target=\"_blank\">announced recently that he&#8217;s retiring<\/a> &#8212; for at least the second time.<\/p>\n<p>Campbell spent 40 years as the Trib&#8217;s sports editor in the middle of a career that began (as a student, graduating in 1950) and ended (working for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylorbearfoundation.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Baylor Bear Foundation<\/a>) at Baylor. He last retired in 1993, when he left the Trib; five months later, though, he accepted an offer to head up the <em>Baylor Bear Insider<\/em>, a newsletter sent out to Bear Foundation members. That job ended up lasting 15 years.<\/p>\n<p>A member of the Texas Sports Hall of Fame and the Baylor Athletic Hall of Fame, Campbell founded <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.texasfootball.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Football<\/a><\/em> in 1960; he still serves as editor-in-chief for the publication, which quickly emerged as the nation&#8217;s prototype for regional sports publications and is still known as &#8220;the Bible of Texas football.&#8221; Among his many recognitions, the press box at Floyd Casey Stadium &#8212; where Campbell has spent countless hours &#8212; is named in his honor.<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Mr. Campbell!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary sportswriter Dave Campbell, creator of Dave Campbell&#8217;s Texas Football Magazine, and longtime sports editor of the Waco Tribune-Herald, announced recently that he&#8217;s retiring &#8212; for at least the second time. Campbell spent 40 years as the Trib&#8217;s sports editor in the middle of a career that began (as a student, graduating in 1950) and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,7,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-athletics","category-extraordinary-stories","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}