Final Blog Post

I created the publication, Sports Writing in America: WRD 284, to house all of the weekly responses, short assignments and final projects in one collective group.

The weekly reading responses are analyses of the texts we read each week and how the author utilized specific…

Reading Responses Weeks 1 and 2

Sports Writing in America: Myths, Memories, Heroes, and Villains

Week 1

The readings for this first week were really interesting. They explored a theme of sports that I had…

Multimodal Assignment: WTF, NFL?

Amelia Diamond and Emma Fantaccione

Week 4 Reading Response: Humor

Sports Writing in America: Myths, Memories, Heroes, and Villains

Part One

This week’s readings highlighted two very different forms and purposes of humor in writing: satire/exaggeration and light positive humor.

Short Assignment Three

Domestic violence is supposed to be bad, and sports are supposed to be good. So why does the NFL’s policy creation and enforcement cloud these seemingly black-and-white notions? No league representative would ever publicly claim that domestic violence should be pushed aside in order to…

Week 3 Reading Response

Sports Writing in America: Myths, Memories, Heroes and Villains

Part One

Two of the articles we read this week — “The Chosen One” by Gary Smith and “The Rabbit Hunter” by Frank Deford —…

Short Assignment 2

“Olympic Sports Coverage Celebrates Inclusivity and Equality”…Said No Female Olympian Ever

During the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, female Olympic athletes received more prime-time coverage…

Week 7 Reading Response

Should sportswriters follow the “stick to sports” mentality?

Part One

On Thursday, we read several articles analyzing the crossover of politics into the sportswriting profession — especially…

Week 8 Reading Response

Part One

This week we talked about an uncomfortable yet really important topic: racism and how it is perceived in the sports world.

During class we spent a lot of time discussing the overarching themes of the articles and less about the…

Sports Column

The End of An Era

The last day of swimming in the 2016 Rio Olympics marked the finally of a legendary career that we may never have the pleasure of witnessing again in our lifetimes.