Sports News is one of the most sought-after sections in any newspaper or online publication, enthralling people worldwide. People eagerly anticipate reading engaging sports headlines to amp up their excitement level and make each day brighter.
Sports writing often gets the unjustified rap as not being true journalism, yet some of history and today’s great writers such as Hemingway and novelist David Foster Wallace have covered sports in an insightful manner. There is plenty to enjoy in sports news – so enjoy!
Most readers of Sports News will likely be fans of the sport being written about, so it is crucial that readers are transported back into the action through vivid details describing game play or by making them feel close to it, such as by detailing what it feels like to grip a bat or toe the service line during a match.
Sports News articles typically follow an inverted pyramid structure, with key information displayed at the beginning. This should include essential facts about a game like who won and how many points were scored, followed by an explanation of how it took place – this section is known as the bridge – before moving onto more detailed coverage about key aspects of play such as main points or players contributions and so forth.
Due to sport’s growing global significance as an industry, major sporting events like the Olympic Games and football World Cups have increasingly drawn the interest of investigative journalists. Unfortunately, however, their ability to report on them may be restricted by sensitive relationships between reporters and subjects they cover as well as declining budgets in many Fleet Street newspapers.
Europe witnessed an upsurge in “citizen journalism” between the 1970s and ’80s with the rise of soccer fanzines – inexpensive magazines written for fans that avoided formal match programs or traditional media sources – during these decades, while more recently with websites offering sports journalism, comment and analysis.
If you are new to sports journalism, it may be beneficial to focus on writing about what you know best – such as your favorite sport – at first. Attend every game possible (even those you aren’t particularly fond of), so that you can observe players closely and write objectively about them. Avoid unnecessary jargon if possible but make sure it can be understood by non-specialists; take as many photos as possible as these will prove invaluable when creating sports articles!
