Jackie MacMullan
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Jackie MacMullan is an American newspaper sportswriter, columnist and editor. MacMullan is currently a columnist and associate editor of the Boston Globe. She began writing for the paper in 1982. [1] From 1995 to 2000 she covered the NBA as a senior writer for Sports Illustrated.
In 1999, MacMullan collaborated with Larry Bird on his autobiography Bird Watching: on Playing and Coaching the Game I Love. In 2003 she published Magic and Bird: Basketball's Awed Couple about Bird and rival Magic Johnson. In 2006 she will release Geno: In Pursuit of Perfection with Geno Auriemma and Diana Taurasi.
MacMullan has been a correspondent for several cable television networks including ESPN, CNNSI, and NESN, as well as WHDH-TV in Boston. She is a regular contestant on the ESPN program Around the Horn.
MacMullan is a graduate of the University of New Hampshire.
