Sports writing often is the liveliest prose in the newspaper.
It may have its idiosyncrasies, but, when a piece of sports journalism is in the right hands, it avoids the mundane, shuns the commonplace, and still incorporates accepted reportorial techniques. This seminar examines good sports writing-what makes it good, and what it takes to become good at it. An overview of sports writing. Essential qualities of good sports writing. How to avoid some deadly sins of interviewing.