SF Weekly staff writer Jack Boulware has won first place for sports reporting in this year's Best of the West journalism competition. The prestigious contest, sponsored by the nonprofit First Amendment Funding Inc., honors journalistic excellence among newspapers in the western United States, and is entered by both weekly and daily newspapers.
Boulware was honored for his March 18, 1998, cover story "The Great White Nope" about Paul Nave, an aging Marin welterweight boxer preparing for a title bid.
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