Amelia Diamond and Emma Fantaccione
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…
On Thursday, we read several articles analyzing the crossover of politics into the sportswriting profession — especially…
During the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, female Olympic athletes received more prime-time coverage…
Sports Writing in America: Myths, Memories, Heroes, and Villains
This week’s readings highlighted two very different forms and purposes of humor in writing: satire/exaggeration and light positive humor.
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.
Two of the articles we read this week — “The Chosen One” by Gary Smith and “The Rabbit Hunter” by Frank Deford —…
The readings for this first week were really interesting. They explored a theme of sports that I had…
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…