Description
Book SynopsisFeatures chapters devoted to baseball, football, basketball, soccer, golf, and other sports, giving readers the inside story on what it's like to cover a beat. This book is useful for beginning journalists and aspiring sports reporters, while providing sports fans in general with a view behind the headlines.
Table of ContentsPreface
Acknowledgments
Introduction Bob Hammel
Part I. Beat Coverage
1. Football Adam Schefter
2. Hockey Jeff Gordon
3. Soccer Scott French
4. Basketball Tim Povtak
5. Auto Racing Dick Mittman
6. Golf Melanie Hauser
7. The Olympics and International Sports Philip Hersh
8. Tennis Mark Ambrogi
9. Baseball Howard Sinker
10. Writing Columns Pat Forde
Part II. The Rest of the Story
Introduction to Part II Bill Buchalter
11. Covering High School Sports Larry Ames
12. Covering College Sports Jim Rossow
13. Memoir: Covering Sports in Small Communities Larry Anderson
14. Sports Reporting and Investigative Journalism Danny Robbins
15. Sports Profiles Nelson Price
16. Dramatic Narrative in Sportswriting Elliott Almond
17. Freelance Sportswriting Steve Salerno
18. Reporting on the Business of Sports Jay Weiner
19. So You Want to be a Sports Editor Garry Howard
20. Covering Women's Sports: Fair Play? Michelle Kaufman
21. Racism and Sports Abraham Aamidor
22. Ethics John Cherwa
