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Is Jeopardy in jeopardy?

By | January 7, 2021
Suzanne Enos of Saugus watches Jeopardy Thursday night. The last episode of the show featuring host Alex Trebek — who died in November — runs tonight. (Steve Krause)
Friday, shortly before 8 p.m., will truly mark the end of an era in American television.  Though Alex Trebek, the popular host of “Jeopardy” since its revival in 1984, died in early November after a yearlong battle with pancreatic cancer, his last show will air Friday, beginning at 7:30 p.m. on Channel 4. Trebek finished…
Steve Krause
Steve Krause Steve Krause is the Item’s writer-at-large. He joined paper in 1979 as a copy editor and later created a music column, called Midnight Ramblings, which ran through 1985. After leaving the paper for a year, he returned in 1988 as a reporter and editor in sports. He became sports editor in 1998; and was named writer-at-large in 2018.

Krause won awards for writing in 1985 from United Press International; in 2001 from the Associated Press; and again in 2020 from the New England Newspaper & Press Association. He is a member of the Harry Agganis Foundation Hall of Fame, a past winner of the Moynihan Lumber Scholar-Athlete Community Service Award, and was the 2012 recipient of the Jack Grinold Media Award for MasterSports, an organization that conducts high school and college coaches’ clinics. He lives in Lynn, is active on Facebook, and can be found on Twitter @itemkrause.

Steve Krause can be reached at skrause@itemlive.com

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