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Want to Write Sports?

Here’s how you can tell your favorite athlete stories

Mike Butler
Beyond the Scoreboard
7 min readJun 12, 2023

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UPDATED 3 FEBRUARY 2024—

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Are you an athlete? A spectator who loves to sit in the stands and scream? The proud parent of an amazing athlete? A softball player? a bicyclist? a runner, triathlete, hockey player? Here’s your pub!

No AI assistance for stories submitted to this publication, please.

We’re accepting submissions from the finest and most creative sports writing on the platform, told with imagination, irony, and any flavor of description and emotion you can include.

We don’t want traditional sports game stories

We want sports-type stories that go beyond the scores of the game, which could include memoirs, essays, features on an athlete or coach, opinions on a topic or other interests sports articles that just don’t tell who scored how many and what the final score was.

Sports memoirs are personal recollections of a specific time or event. Sports memoirs are true (nonfiction) and told with plenty of introspection…

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Mike Butler
Beyond the Scoreboard

Top NBA, sports, and music writer. Editor for Beyond the Scoreboard.