Star Tribune — Jon Roe completed his lengthy academic pursuits at St. Cloud State in 1967 and talked himself into a job in the Minneapolis Tribune’s sports department. He was covering the Gophers and got to know Ken Murphy, both a Gophers reporter and the morning sports editor at the St. Paul newspapers.
Murphy was lamenting the need to hire a sports reporter and Roe, previously a colleague at the St. Cloud Times, put in a plug for me. I was hired to cover high schools and started at the Pioneer Press and Dispatch on Labor Day in 1968.
The St. Paul sports department did its hiring regionally and, over the next two years, eight more sports writers came to the department.
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