sportscastress

English

Etymology

From sportscaster +‎ -ess.

Noun

sportscastress (plural sportscastresses) (rare)

1. A female sportscaster.
   • 1952 April 5, The Billboard, page 3, column 5:

     A few grapefruit league scores and an introduction to the sportscastress as the hostess of the Monday session was about all there was time for, apart from a plug for N. Y. Giant-owned Mayfair Inn in Sanford, Fla., where viewers were assured / (Continued on page 11)

   • 1974 October 27, Green Bay Press-Gazette, page 80:

     Mrs. Chastain, born in Knoxville, Tenn., raised in Atlanta, Ga., and married to an industrial designer, was packing for a trip and somewhat harried when called this week to see how she felt about her new job. “I knew I’d probably sign up with CBS,” laughed the sportscastress, who slightly resembles Mary Tyler Moore.

   • 1974 November 14, Florida Today:

     Asked about Jane Chastain, the sportscastress from Miami, Wussler said, “She hasn’t got off to the best possible start.”

   • 1976 August 27, Bradford Era, page 7:

     Concord Publishing Ex-Miss America Phyllis George (now the CBS-TV sportscastress) has the first sign of superstardom: unloaded longplay manager Llyod Kolmer Jerry Stiller’s tryout of the new “Three on a Runway” comedy busted toe 50-year-old house record at the Dennis, Mass. Cape Playhouse.

   • 1991, W.C.D.B. 91FM Program Guide:

     Berler is now a full-fledged "sportscastress," with a regular time slot.

   • 2003 April 18, Joe Gillis, “Re: WEHT Hannah Storm on Early Show”, in alt.gossip.celebrities (Usenet), message-ID <20030418133742.18878.00000232@mb-m18.aol.com>:

     >Thank God; now if the other show can just get rid of the chirpy former / >sportscaster Robin Roberts, progress will be getting made. / God did not intend for there to be women sportscasters, er, sportscastresses.

   • 2003 May 13, Bob Noonan, “Re: So much for Melissa”, in alt.sports.football.pro.sea-seahawks (Usenet), message-ID <3ec18177.903781@news.cis.dfn.de>:

     Nah she's just a "cookie cutter blonde"* / *To use a phrase that SOMEONE here used about another sportscastress.

   • 2012 December 7, Darren Franich, “Playing for Keeps review”, in Entertainment Weekly:

     Judy Greer, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Uma Thurman play desperate-housewife variations — a crying divorcee, a seductive ex-sportscastress, a daffy trophy wife.

   • 2013 April 4, El Segundo Herald, page 6, column 1:

     Sportscasteress^[sic] and column fave Erin Andrews, who moved over to the FOX Network last summer and knows her chops, has allegedly priced out some in neighboring Hermosa Beach.