I’m not a sports minded person but I have a friend who will always tell me the game scores, who is playing and I usually don’t remember enough to know which city each team is from. She still tells me about them anyway. I don’t mind, even if I’m not intensely interested, it matters to her after all. Traditionally, women are not sports writers and way back they weren’t traditionally sports players either. Things are changing and for women who are interested in sports, writing about them could be a career choice.
Anyone can print the final score of a hockey game (Vancouver 3, Colorado 1) but it takes detail and creative language to win sports readers.
From SNN Newsroom: Sports Writing.
On Sports – Tips and suggestions for covering sports.
Writing World has a good article about getting into sports writing online. It’s a little dated but a start even still.
About.com: Writing the Short Game Story. – Writing a sports story in 500 words or less.
Sports Writing and Editing is being kept updated but needs readers to push for more content.
There is a forum for Sports Journalists.
Wikipedia has a few more resources.
Geeky Baldisms writes about bad sports writing.
