Communication Studies: Sports Journalism

How best to turn yourself from sports fan to professional sports journalist? Gisondi gives on hands-on, practical advice on covering 20 specific sports from where to stand on the sideline and how to identify a key player to figuring out shot selection in lacrosse . Gisondi includes brief chapters on writing, interviewing, blogging, covering fantasy sports, and radio broadcasting.

This book covers the full experience of sports writing, including the stages of article writing and stylistic ande thical issues in other types of sports stories, such as columns, profiles, and news. The authors also offer insights as to what to expect as a sports reporter.

This book explores professional, college, and international sports organizations structure, governance, labor issues, and other business factors. It includes historical, current, and hypothetical cases to illustrate how business concerns play a role in the reporting of sports. New features include disciplinary policies in the major sports leagues, discussion of intellectual property issues and merchandising, and new sections on ethical issues in sports.

"A Sportswriter s Life "is a revealing look at the people and events that were part of the history of sports from a perspective of a veteran NYT sports reporter. Eskenazi reveals how he dealt with many larger-than-life sports personalities and uncovers many intriguing and amusing stories.

Since he first joined Sports Illustrated in 1962, Frank Deford has chronicled the heroes and the characters of just about every sport in nearly every medium. Interwoven through his personal history, Deford traces American sportswriting from the early years of the NBA up to the 24-hour sports world of ESPN.

The campaign to desegregate baseball was one of the most important civil rights stories of the 1930s and 1940s. But most of white America knew nothing about this story because mainstream newspapers said little about the color line and less about the efforts to end it. Chris Lamb reveals how differently black and white newspapers, and black and white America, viewed racial equality. He shows how white mainstream sportswriters perpetuated the color line by participating in what their black counterparts called a “conspiracy of silence.” Between 1933 and 1945, black newspapers and the Communist Daily Worker published hundreds of articles and editorials calling for an end to baseball’s color line. The efforts of the alternative presses to end baseball’s color line, chronicled for the first time in Conspiracy of Silence, constitute one of baseball’s—and the civil rights movement’s—great untold stories.

Sports Journalism chronicles how and why technology, religion, social movements, immigration, racism, sexism, social media, athletes, and sportswriters and broadcasters changed sports as well as how sports are covered and how news about sports are presented and disseminated. Sports Journalism also examines the ethics of sports journalism, how sports coverage frequently has differed from that of non-sports news, and how the internet has spawned a set of new ethical issues. &

A thorough and comprehensive guide to improving your tennis. Marty Smith, an NCAA Division I Southern Conference Champion and long-time Director of Tennis at the New York Athletic Club, shares his extensive knowledge of tennis technique, strategy, psychology and fitness in easy to understand language. His meticulous explanations of the strokes, coupled with narrated individual and sequenced photos of the world's best players, will help you develop powerful and consistent swings, play with more confidence and win a lot more. .

From one of the nation's top women's basketball coaches, On Point practical knowledge and skills leaders need to achieve success in life and business, using stories from business, the courts, locker rooms, and press conferences. From leading a Big 10 basketball program to coaching high-performing teams in business, leader-focused chapters provide a holistic view of attributes crucial for On Point leadership.

A typical NBA game can yield approximately 2,800 statistical events in thirty-two different categories. . As advanced statistical methods and big-data technologies transform sports, we now have the power to count more things in greater detail than ever before. These numbers tell us about the past, present, and future that shape how basketball is played on the floor, decisions are made in front offices, and the sport is marketed and consumed. But what is the relationship between counting and what counts? Colas situates big data within the deeper social, cultural, and conceptual history of counting in basketball and proposes alternative frameworks of value.

Soccer fans around the world adore the attacking style of play based on fast passing combinations, spectacular dribblings, and the art of beautiful shot goals. Peter Schreiner and Norbert Elgert, renowned German coaches, give systematic approaches on how to convince your players to embrace the style and how to shape training programs with richly illustrated, easy to use excersises that cover all of the technical and tactical basics.

After World War II, the United States used international sport to promote democratic values and its image of an ideal citizen. But African American women's athletic success soon threatened postwar America's dominant ideas about race, gender, sexuality, and national identity. As Ariail shows, the wider culture tried to defuse these radical challenges by locking the athletes within roles that stressed conservative forms of femininity, blackness, and citizenship. A rare exploration of African American women athletes and national identity, Passing the Baton reveals young Black women as active agents in the remaking of what it means to be American.

How do the world's greatest golfers improve their game? Practice, sure, but Roland Minton says mathematics and statistics are also key to their success. Golf by the Numbers analyzes the mathematical strategies behind the sport, giving fans a behind-the-scenes look at how numbers drive the game. Computers, GPS trackers, swing simulators, and high-speed cameras have introduced new and exciting ways of seeing and understanding the complicated and endlessly fascinating game of golf. Players like Phil Mickelson are so good because they review the results of every swing they take. Minton's comprehensive analysis of statistics taken from the PGA Tour's ShotLink system walks readers through the mountains of data that pros use to inform and refine their play. The result is an insider's perspective of how the world's greatest golfers apply mathematics to the sport. Minton discusses randomness in golf (especially how much luck is involved in putting) as well as aggressive and cautious strategies both on and off the greens, and he explains, by the numbers, just how Tiger Woods was so dominant from 2004 to 2009. Here is a book that tells some truly engaging stories of modern golf, featuring famous players and memorable tournaments, all through the lens of elementary probability theory. Minton's informal style and clear and direct explanations make even the most detailed discussions accessible to all curious-minded golfers. His mathematical morsels are not only enjoyable to read--they may even help you improve your game.