Often times I have wondered about sports writers. What inspires these journalists? How do they gather ideas? I mean a game is a game and yes, stuff happens, but is there really a story beyond that. The answer...YES and thanks to Tom Blodgett of The Arizona Republic, I know how to instruct my students how to find them.
Several ideas Blodgett offered to cover in the sports section:
- coaching changes
- recruiting
- awards
- features
- much, much more
Marc Garcia
Sunset High School
Dallas, TX
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Blodgett gave me some ideas, too, about reporting school sporting events. I like the Enterprise idea and the idea about profiling a student athlete who is not a star. At my school we have had some bad years with football. Our soccer team is great, but football rules win or lose.
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ReplyDeleteFinding sport reporters and getting them to do the work has been a tough one for me. In addition to their normal school work load they have sports that takes up their time. In our school students play multiple sports. I have tried to get them to write from a participatory standpoint.
ReplyDeleteHonestly, I see the main problem is trying to get students to do something when they do not want to and the know that electives do not count toward graduation.
Sports was the last thing on my mind when it came to the student publication, but after hearing Blodgett's lesson, I came out with a whole new attitude. It was great to see someone give us such a broad range of ideas and how to implement them in our classroom.
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