Loren Tate

Loren Tate
Born	(1931-11-03) November 3, 1931 (age 93) [1]
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of Illinois
Occupation	Football/Basketball sports journalist
Years active	1966-present
Employer(s)	Champaign News-Gazette WDWS
Spouse(s)	Ilene Gadbury Tate Gasser [2] Lex Tate
Children	4 (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. News Gazette on Facebook
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.