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Did you ever experience the hot flood of shame that sweeps over a ball player when he “boots” a ball in a close game?.

Do you understand the feelings of a football player, as he plows through a heavy line?.

Many writers who have played sports competitively in college, sometimes turn outside of their city or state for material, when some of their own observations and experiences would make splendid plot material. Granted that the sports story will not live and make its author famous, but how many stories do? It will, however, pay the bills because all sports stories are marketable. It has always seemed strange to me that college graduates who have turned to writing neglect the creative writing aspects of this genre. You must build your plot solidly and substantially, with the real human interest of your sports story attracting the sympathy and attention of the reader.

Even the smallest error in covering or describing a particular sport may enrage diehard sports fanatics who know something about how the sport is played.

To write any successful sports story (fiction or non-fiction), the writer must familiarize himself with the precise details of the sport. Very few aspiring student writers realize that they can either choose to write the typical objective, newspaper-style sports article (as mentioned above), or they can write a subjective, human-interest sports story or a sports story based entirely on fiction. Nearly every student’s article sounds the same, with the same plot, the same characters, the same scores, and nearly identical settings. They write about which player scored what point in what inning or at what quarter. When I ask my students to cover a sporting event and “write a sports story” (with no further instructions), 9 out of 10 students watch a sporting event on TV or attend a baseball game and rehash on paper what they have observed. Their plots, if writers decide to flesh one out, are often similar, slight and threadbare with constant use.ĭuring the summer I teach a course on sports writing. Many writers believe that a sports story is nothing more than writing a non-fiction piece describing the events of a baseball game or boxing match.