# David Climer > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/David_Climer > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/David_Climer.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Climer > Source revision: 1181773405 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|American sports columnist (1953–2020)}} {{Infobox person | image = | caption = | name = David Climer | birth_date = 1953 | death_date = {{death date and given age|2020|1|19|66}} | birth_place = | death_place = [Nashville, Tennessee](/source/Nashville%2C_Tennessee) | occupation =[Sports journalist](/source/Sports_journalist) | years_active = 1974-2015 | education = }} '''David Climer''' (1953 – January 19, 2020) was a [sports reporter](/source/Sports_journalism) and [columnist](/source/columnist) for over four decades at ''[The Tennessean](/source/The_Tennessean)'', from 1974 to 2015. Climer was raised in [Lebanon, Tennessee](/source/Lebanon%2C_Tennessee), where he wrote for the school newspapers at Lebanon Junior High and [Lebanon High School](/source/Lebanon_High_School_(Tennessee)) (where he was also a pitcher on the baseball team) before joining the ''[Lebanon Democrat](/source/Lebanon_Democrat)'' as a sportswriter.{{cite news |last1=Smith |first1=Xavier |title=Lebanon native, sports columnist Climer dies |url=https://www.wilsonpost.com/news/lebanon-native-sports-columnist-climer-dies/article_836063d2-3ce0-11ea-aeae-533c46e5c6bb.html |work=The Wilson Post |date=January 22, 2020}} In 1974, he began writing for ''[The Tennessean](/source/The_Tennessean)'' on a part-time basis, earning a full-time assignment covering [Tennessee State University](/source/Tennessee_State_University) in 1977. In 1984, he was assigned to the beat for [University of Tennessee](/source/University_of_Tennessee) sports. In 1994, he became a columnist, writing about local and national sports stories.{{cite news |last1=Estes |first1=Gentry |title=David Climer, longtime Tennessean sports columnist, dies |url=https://www.tennessean.com/story/sports/2020/01/19/david-climer-tennessean-sports-columnist-dies/4519295002/ |work=The Tennessean |date=January 19, 2020}} Climer retired from The Tennessean in 2015. He continued to write columns for ''The Ledger'', a weekly publication in Tennessee.{{cite news |last1=Climer |first1=David |title=This job has been a dream come true |url=https://www.tennessean.com/story/sports/columnist/david-climer/2015/10/30/david-climer-farewell-column/74807798/ |work=The Tennessean |date=October 29, 2015}}{{cite news |last1=Climer |first1=David |title=The sporting life of David Climer |url=https://www.tnledger.com/editorial/Article.aspx?id=85398 |work=The Ledger |date=November 20, 2015}}{{cite news |last1=McCormick |first1=Terry |title=Former Ledger, Tennessean columnist David Climer remembered |url=http://www.tnledger.com/editorial/Article.aspx?id=125213 |work=The Ledger |date=January 17, 2020}} Over his career, Climer was named among the top ten columnists in the country by the [Associated Press](/source/Associated_Press) sports editors three times. In 2015, he was named to the Tennessee Sports Writers Hall of Fame. In retirement, Climer moved to [Fripp Island, South Carolina](/source/Fripp_Island%2C_South_Carolina), with his wife, Rebecca. In late 2019, Climer revealed that he had stage 4 [pancreatic cancer](/source/pancreatic_cancer). He died in [Nashville, Tennessee](/source/Nashville%2C_Tennessee) on Sunday, January 19, 2020. He was 66.{{cite news |last1=Wiedmer |first1=Mark |title=David Climer was a sports-writing giant taken too soon |url=https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/sports/columns/story/2020/jan/20/wiedmer-david-climer-wsports-writing-giant-ta/513487/ |work=Chattanooga Times Free Press |date=January 20, 2020}}{{cite web |last1=Pearlman |first1=Jeff |title=David Climer: Former sports columnist, The (Nashville) Tennessean |url=https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/david-climer-former-sports-columnist-nashville-tennessean/id1252080948?i=1000461172519 |website=Two Writers Slinging Yang |publisher=iTunes |date=December 31, 2019}} ==References== {{reflist}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Climer, David}} Category:2020 deaths Category:American sports journalists Category:Deaths from pancreatic cancer in Tennessee Category:People from Lebanon, Tennessee Category:1953 births {{US-journalist-1950s-stub}} --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [David Climer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Climer) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Climer?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.