Sports Writing Becomes You

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.

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