by: Ma. Kristine Mae Abad

1. Sports
Writing

2. SPORTS WRITING
is one of the most interesting aspects of the
noble profession- journalism.
It covers news like a basketball or volleyball
story, sports editorial, and sports features.
Sports section may also have an editorial
cartoon and letters to the editor.

3. • Sports writing is fun, but it also hard work.
• Writer must impart to the reader the drama
and excitement he sees in the fields.
• The manner of reporting athletic events varies
with the sport.
• One thing is certain: sports writing is livelier
because the writer deals with physical motion
and action.

4. VARIOUS TYPES
OF
SPORTS

5. • Horse Racing, Basketball
• Table tennis
• Volleyball
• Archery
• Lawn Tennis
• Baseball
• Badminton
• Wrestling
• Car Racing
• Chess

6. • Boxing
• Bowling
• Track and Field Events
• Cycling
• Fencing
• Football
• Golf
• Swimming,
• Water Polo and
• other types of games.

7. TYPES
OF
SPORTS REPORTING

8. • PLAY-BY-PLAY ACCOUNT- demands
– close observation and ability to work at top speed.
Knowledge of the game is necessary.
– Sportswriter should know the rules, and all the details
regarding the players, past records, officials, and plays.
• LEAD STORIES
– centering on the highlights and more important plays
only such as scoring, plays, the crucial games and the
star performers of both teams, especially in
newspapers where there is not much space for play-
by-play reports.

9. • BRIEF SPORTS STORIES
– Center on straight news reporting, but with a
sports flavor. Stressed the score, winner,
outstanding incidents, and how the outcome of
the game affects the season’s standing of the
teams or individual players.
• SPORTS FEATURES
– help brighten up the sports page. Have broader
range of subject matter.
– Greater freedom of presentation, and the writers
can use the creative approach.

10. • ADVANCE SPORTS STORIES-
– give backgrounders, some unusual and exciting games
the teams have played before games.
– May report the records of the teams or individual
players in the current season, their physical and
mental condition.
– May touch also on lineups, playing styles, crowd
situations, statements by coaches, odds, other
interests, and angles.
– Must talk with the coaches and players of the team
before the start of the game.

11. • FOLLOW-UP STORIES- furnish post- mortem
analyses. They may discuss the condition of
players injured or the psychological aspects of
the game.
• THE SPORTS COLUMN- written from the
angle of the reporter’s opinion.

12. QUALITIES
OF THE
SPORTS WRITER

13.  A sports writer must be a natural descriptive writer who
can paint a quick verbal picture without resorting to the
dictionary for the right word.
 It is important that the sports writer must have a feeling
and genuine love for the sports. (You can’t convey the
emotion of an event or happening if you don’t feel it. If you
feel it, the right descriptive words will come out. You must
feel also the emotion of the crowd and the atmosphere of
the area) Training is important in this form of editorial life.
 The sports writer must always be in the struggle in finding
new words, new ways to describe punches, new ideas for
stories because ideas are the currency of sporting
journalism.