Hey Class!
My passion has always been sports, and for this weeks blog I found an article by one of my favorite writers, Zach Lowe.
"It's time for our last big preseason tradition: plopping all 30 teams into tiers to snapshot their place in the league hierarchy at this precious moment when everyone is 0-0.
These are not strict power rankings, and the order within each bucket doesn't necessarily matter. At least a half-dozen teams could slide up or down a tier, or even across three; the gooey center of the NBA is unusually muddled."
I love his style of writing. As you read on you'll see that he mixes it up with seriousness, backed up with numbers, and then he will shift to a more relaxed style. This is the type of writing that I would like to do.
I am in a news writing and interviewing class, and it is harder for me because I am supposed to remove my voice. Sports journalism gives you much more leeway to input your opinion...just so long as you can back it up with numbers.
If you'd like, you can read the rest of his article here: http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/17777645/tiers-nba-zach-lowe
Sports writing is so intense. I feel that writing for the radio or the newspaper is different than writing for sports broadcasting. My mom always talks about a sports announcer from Peru that spoke in a way that made you feel like you had front row seats at a game even though you were tuned in on the radio. There is also a writer that did the same thing. Help others live the game when you start your sports writing career.
ReplyDeleteI also love reading Zach Lowe's articles on ESPN. I always thought he did a great job at showing it instead of just telling it. For how intense sports can be, some news writers do a really bad job at transferring that energy onto paper.
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