Revision as of 14:38, 24 October 2020

These press releases and articles appeared in 2016.

• September 30, 2016: CBC covers Shediac (NB) tournament.
• 2016 North American SCRABBLE Championship
  • August 12, 2016: Spartanburg Herald Journal interviews David Gibson.
  • August 11, 2016: Spartanburg (SC) CBS affiliate WSPA and Myrtle Beach (SC) CBS affiliate WBTW cover the victory of local resident David Gibson.
  • August 11, 2016: Local NPR affiliate WBOI interviews David Gibson, Mack Meller, and Heather McCall at the NASC.
  • August 10, 2016: Hasbro press release wraps up the event.
  • August 10, 2016: New England Public Radio interviews Division 3 winner Ben Greenwood.
  • August 8, 2016: Fort Wayne Fox affiliate WFFT interviews Jesse Matthews.
  • August 7, 2016: Fort Wayne ABC affiliate 21Alive and The Journal Gazette interview Dallas Johnson and Robin Pollock Daniel who describes SCRABBLE as "chess with tiles."
  • August 6, 2016: The Journal Gazette interviews NASC director Dallas Johnson amid play on Day 1.
  • August 6, 2016: Local news channel WANE-TV covers the NASC on Day 1.
  • August 5, 2016: News-Sentinel profiles local players Kathleen Long, Timothy Long, and Dan Wenger.
  • August 5, 2016: Terre Haute Tribune Star previews NASC in Fort Wayne.
• July 24, 2016: Stamford Advocate covered weekend tournament held in Stamford (CT).
• July 21, 2016: Victoria News interviews Victoria (BC) NASPA members Tim Thielmann and Rhonda Reece.
• July 17, 2016: KRAL interviewed tournament director David Klionsky about the Robb Griffith Memorial tournament scheduled for July 23rd in Durham (NC).
• July 1, 2016: JG-TC reports on attempt of Marty Gabriel and Scott Garner to break Guiness SCRABBLE record.
• June 8, 2016: Global News reports on Shediac (NB) tournament scheduled to celebrate 90th anniversary of 1st crossword game invented by local resident Edward MacDonald.
• June 9, 2016: John Chew interviewed in the Moncton Times & Transcript in an article by James Foster entitled “Shediac stakes its claim as Canada’s Scrabble capital” about the history of the Scrabble game and the first tournament to be held in Atlantic Canada in the fall.
• June 6, 2016: John Robertson and Andy Saunders, authors of A's Bad As It Gets, cited in Sports Illustrated article on 1916 Philadelphia Athletics.
• June 2, 2016: Omaha Magazine coverage of Omaha NASPA Club #582.
• May 21, 2016: News-Sentinel and WOWO coverage of Fort Wayne (IN) tournament.
• May 19, 2016: Wall Street Journal interviews 2015 world champion Wellington Jighere. Features photos of 2015 North American SCRABBLE Championship and Chris Lipe who is quoted along with Stefan Fatsis.
  • May 23, 2016: Stefan Fatsis and Oliver Roeder respond to the article in Slate. Chris Lipe, Jesse Day, and Evans Clinchy are quoted.
• 2016 Canadian National SCRABBLE Championship
  • May 27, 2016: Adam Logan interviewed by CTV Morning Live
  • May 22, 2016: Adam Logan interviewed by CBC News
  • May 16, 2016: Oklahoma's NewsOn6 and other sources quote from the event final press release.
  • May 16, 2016: Adam Logan interviewed on 1310 News talk radio.
  • May 16, 2016: Lengthy interview with John Chew at Torontoist.
  • May 15, 2016: News segment on CityNews evening programme.
  • May 13, 2016: Two-minute segment on Global News evening programme, featuring Matthew Tunnicliffe and several School SCRABBLE participants.
• 2016 North American School SCRABBLE Championship
  • June 21, 2016: HBO's Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel (Episode 231) profiles champions and shows NASSC in feature on youth mental athletes.
  • May 23, 2016: ABC15 Arizona interviewed 2016 North American School SCRABBLE champion Cooper Komatsu who tied for 7th place in 2016 Scripps National Spelling Bee.
  • April 24, 2016: Los Angeles Wave reports on final results
  • April 13, 2016: Westhampton-Hampton Bays Patch reports on local students participating in the NASSC.
  • April 10, 2016: The Sun Chronicle reports on the NASSC as a local news item.
• February 3, 2016: The Oklahoman interviews members of the Oklahoma City club for a lengthy feature article.
• January 21, 2016: Newsworks interview John Green about the ASAP School SCRABBLE Program in Philadelphia.
• January 14, 2016: Omaha.com reports on George Asaka and the Omaha Scrabble Club.