Larry Woody

Larry "Woodrow" Woody is a retired sports writer for The Tennessean, the morning newspaper in Nashville, Tennessee. He is a three-time winner of the Tennessee Sports Writer of the Year award and is the author of several books, including Along For The Ride.

Woody covered NASCAR from the early 1960s to late 2007 in addition to SEC sports, minor league baseball, the Tennessee Titans, and the Vanderbilt Commodores. The first NASCAR race he ever attended, he reluctantly covered.[1]

He was inducted into the Martin Methodist College Sports Hall Of Fame, part of the 2001–2002 class.[2]

Woody took early retirement from The Tennessean in August, 2007.[3]

  1. ^ Woody, Larry (February 29, 2008). "NASCAR should remember: Personality built sport". The City Paper. Nashville, Tennessee. Archived from the original on September 6, 2012. Retrieved January 29, 2024.
  2. ^ "Larry H. Woody". UT Southern Athletics. University of Tennessee Southern. Retrieved January 29, 2024.
  3. ^ Griffith, Amy (August 17, 2007). "'Tennessean' employees accept severance packages". The City Paper. Nashville, Tennessee. Archived from the original on October 11, 2007. Retrieved January 29, 2024.