Have a read on these articles? How well do they work? What can you use in your own writing?
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/22/sports/baseball/22niekro.html?_r=1&ref=sports
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/22/sports/ncaabasketball/22binghamton.html?ref=sports
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/22/sports/ncaabasketball/22friars.html?ref=sports
Different sports, different kinds of articles... there is so much variety in Sports!
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ms. sackstein what exactly do you want us to do with those 3 urls?
I am confused, these are sports articles? They say opinion at the top, are about toys, and are the same article three times.
In the first two articles I noticed the authors used something in the beginning to engage the reader and then brought in the real topic of the article. For example in the first article the first couple of paragraphs are about Lance Niekro's father dying, then the author brings in the history of lance, how he got to where he is today, briefly mentioning his brother and father. When they do mention his father its not about his death, its about how he taught lance the knuckleball.
Maybe in our own writing we can use something like the A-rod story in the beginning and then go into steroids and use this scandal to make the steroids article relative to today. I feel that's what they did in the first two articles.
I like the first two articles because I think the strategy used was very clever. Tying what the author wants to get out with something that relates, but is going on today engages the reader, while also educating them.
The sports articles teach me alot; they teach me about how to use both news-style and feature-like writing for writing an article. I know now that depending on the situation and the story that the sports is about, from there you should know what angle to go from, maybe telling a story or just telling the facts like it is. The first article about the baseball player who lost his father explains to me that sports writing can express some emotions as long as the author isn't showing it directly and you can use human interest style in the articles to make it more interesting.
Livi Cabrera
I think that they work well for me. I like the one for the NY times. It is easier and I think that it would work for me and teach me a little.
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