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Sports Writing Essentials

This document provides guidance for writing sports stories. It discusses that sports writing has freedom of style. A good sports writer should be interested in all sports, know the rules of games, and be knowledgeable about sports terminology. It outlines the different types of sports stories such as advance, coverage, and advance-coverage stories. It provides questions to consider for the lead of a sports story such as who won, against whom, by what score, where, and when. It also lists different types of leads for sports stories such as team/individual standing, decisive plays, best scores, play-by-play, and quotations.

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Sports Writing Essentials

This document provides guidance for writing sports stories. It discusses that sports writing has freedom of style. A good sports writer should be interested in all sports, know the rules of games, and be knowledgeable about sports terminology. It outlines the different types of sports stories such as advance, coverage, and advance-coverage stories. It provides questions to consider for the lead of a sports story such as who won, against whom, by what score, where, and when. It also lists different types of leads for sports stories such as team/individual standing, decisive plays, best scores, play-by-play, and quotations.

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Sports Writing

Sports
✓ The liveliest section
✓ Newswriting with
freedom of style
The Sports Writer should...
✓ have interest in all
sports event
✓ know the rules of
the game
✓ have a knowledge
of specific sports
lingo
Types of Sports
Stories
ADVANCE STORY
COVERAGE STORY
ADVANCE-COVERAGE STORY
Writing the Sports Story
Writing the Sports Story
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–Who won?
–Against whom?
–By what score?
–Where?
–When?
Writing the Sports Story
Type of Sports Lead
Type of Sports Lead
Writing the Sports Story

1. Team and/or Individual Standing


2. Decisive Play (most crucial part of
the game)
3. Best Scores
4. Play-by-Play (events in all parts of
the game)
5. Quotation (by best players, coach,
fans etc.)
Writing the Sports Story
Activity 1:
• Read the sample sports article and analyze its
structure. Note your answers on the ff:
• What is the focus of the lead of the story?
• What is the structure of the story(inverted
pyramid, chronological order, etc.?)
• What details are included in the
body of the article?
• What are the strong action verbs
used?

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