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jon mark beilue - inductee #183

Hall of Fame Fast Fact:

After Jon Mark Beilue switched to writing a general interest column three times a week, Amarillo Globe-News readers voted him the best Amarillo writer for 10 straight years.

Jon Mark Beilue

A three-sport athlete at Groom, Beilue was a two-way starter on the 1975 football team that advanced to the Class B state championship. Beilue went to work at the Amarillo Globe-News in 1981 after graduating from Texas Tech. 

He started his career as a sportswriter, covering the city high schools in football and basketball, as well as area track. In 1986, he was promoted to assistant sports editor of a 12-person staff, and three years later, in 1989, he was named sports editor. 

For the next 17 years, he directed coverage of local and regional sports for the Globe-News in the newspaper's longest tenure as sports editor. In 2006, he left sports to become a general columnist at the Globe-News, a position he held until his retirement in July 2018, to end 37 years with the newspaper.

Beilue received 16 statewide and national awards for writing in both sports and news. He was honored four times nationally by the Associated Press Sports Editors in its writing contest, including second in both column and feature writing in 1995 in the Globe-News circulation division. A special section on the history of high school football in 1999 that he directed coverage on won a top 10 national award by APSE. 

Beilue has been a member of the PSHOF selection committee since 1989. For the last 22 years, he has been the masters of ceremonies for the event.



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Amarillo Globe News sports writer, Lee Passmore, shares a great article about the 183rd member of the Panhandle Sports Hall of Fame, Jon Mark Beilue.

Click here to read Lee's story.