Jackie MacMullan

Jackie "Mac" MacMullan is an American freelance newspaper sportswriter and NBA columnist for the sports website ESPN.com. 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 [cite web |url=http://shots.bostonsportsmedia.com/2008/04/jackie-mack-taking-latest-globe-buyout|title= Jackie Mack Taking Latest Globe Buyout |accessdate=2008-04-01 |work=bostonsportsmediawatch.com:Scott's Shots ] . She began writing for the Globe in 1982. [cite web |url= http://espn.go.com/eoe/macmullen_bio.html|title= Jackie MacMullan The Boston Globe Around The Horn Panelist |accessdate=2007-05-23 |work= ESPN.com:ESPN Original Entertainment ] 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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* [http://www.boston.com/sports/columnists/macmullan/ Archive of MacMullan's column at the Boston Globe]