Jackie MacMullan

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Jackie MacMullan is an American freelance newspaper sportswriter. A graduate of the University of New Hampshire, MacMullan was a columnist and associate editor of the Boston Globe until she took a buyout from the paper in March 2008 ^[1]. She began writing for the Globe in 1982. ^[2] 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. She published Magic and Bird: Basketball's Awed Couple about Bird and rival Magic Johnson in 2003, and in 2006 released Geno: In Pursuit of Perfection with Geno Auriemma and Diana Taurasi, a work that has come under heavy fire for putting a sports columnist in a business relationship with a sports personality she covers in the media.

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 (and only female one) on the ESPN program Around the Horn.

In response to MacMullan's departure from the Globe, she had this to say in an email to the blog site Boston Sports Media Watch:

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It’s just time for me. My kids are growing up too fast, and I don’t want to miss anything. I’ll still do some freelance work but I’m not planning on taking another full-time job right now. It would be counter-productive to why I’m doing this in the first place.

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