Longtime sportswriter James J. Tuite dies
Photo credit: Handout | Undated obit photo of James J. Tuite, sportswriter and editor.
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James J. Tuite, who launched his sportswriting career as a teenager and went on to become a sports editor at The New York Times and a contributor to several newspapers, including Newsday, has died.
Tuite, of Ridge, died Saturday. He had been suffering from Alzheimer's and been in declining health. He was 90.
Tuite was born March 22, 1921, in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. His mother was a homemaker...
