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The Sports Page Shirley Povich.Pdf [ABCDE] INSIDE JOURNALISM Volume 1, Issue 7 Shirley, One of the Best The Extraordinary Tale of a Caddy Who Turned a Golf Course Break Into a Reporting Career And Became One Of the Champions Of Sports Journalism. Page 10 INSIDE Meet the Editor: Sports Editor 5 Cindy Boren Shirley Povich Sportswriting files a sports story for the By the Numbers, Post in the a How-To 7 1940s. After working for You and Your the paper 75 Rights years, he filed Freedom of his last story, 12 Speech and a column, the Athletes day before he died in 1999. April 1, 2003 © 2003 THE WASHINGTON POST COMPANY Volume 1, Issue 7 KLMNO An Integrated Curriculum For The Washington Post Newspaper In Education Program The News KidsPost Article: “Following the Bouncing Ball” In the Know The INSIDE Journalism curriculum guide provides information and Balance: Fairly presenting accurate and resources that can be used on many grade levels and in many subject pertinent information about all parties areas. Here are a few suggestions for using the material in this guide. involved Think About Sports daily coverage. Sports coverage, Beat: Area of specialty to which What are the favorite sports, found in the D section, includes the a reporter is assigned; in sports sports teams and athletes of your work of reporters, editors and eight students? What makes them columnists. reporting, this may be basketball or favorites? more specific, the Wizards. Reporters Many say that the front page, Discuss develop sources, meet those involved the Sports section and comics After reading the KidsPost article are the first parts of a newspaper and the reproducible in this guide, and know all there is to know about that is read. Ask students which discuss these questions. their beats. part of the newspaper is the best, 1. Who has the Wizards beat for after KidsPost. Do they read the The Washington Post? Where does Collective noun: Nouns that signify Sports section? What parts of he sit during a Wizards game? groups of people, such as “team” and the sports coverage do they like? 2. What is the job of the sports “crew” Photographs, articles, box scores? reporter? Do Wyche and Boren Do they read the high school agree on the role of the sports Jargon: Terms and idioms of a particular coverage? reporter and coverage of the home group; easy communication to those After the Civil War, sportswriting team? began to be recognized as its 3. Would a sports reporter in the group, but confusion to those own strong presence in American interview the trainer and the outside the group newspapers. In the early 20th players who sit on the bench most century, Grantland Rice, Shirley of a game? Why? Score: Numerical record of a competitive Povich and Red Smith brought 4. What are some benefits of event; points made by each competitor observation, facts and their own being a sports reporter? or side, either final or at a given stage style to establish the genre firmly. 5. What are the drawbacks of being a sports reporter? Score box: Collection of the event’s Read 6. What is the job of the sports scores or the team’s record to date, Steve Wyche, the sports reporter editor? How does the job of sports for The Washington Post who editor differ from being a sports usually enclosed by rule lines or in a covers the Washington Wizards, reporter? spot color box tells about his job. Read “Following 7. Who is responsible for the Bouncing Ball” and “Tracking knowing the statistics? What are Sports editor: Person who helps Jordan.” sources for getting stats? develop sports coverage and then edits 8. What do you learn about stories for accuracy in reporting Meet the Sports Editor Michael Jordan from Wyche? Read “Meet the Sports Editor” 9. Who makes the final decisions Sportsmanship: Conduct and attitude found in this guide. Cindy Boren about what gets on the printed considered as befitting participants in answers our questions about her sports pages of The Post? job and how she works with sports sports, especially fair play, courtesy, reporters. Sports is one of six How to Write a Sports Article striving spirit and grace in losing major departments of the news The best way to learn about staff responsible for The Post’s sports reporting is to write. The Statistics: Numerical data 2 April 1, 2003 © 2002 THE WASHINGTON POST COMPANY Volume 1, Issue 7 KLMNO An Integrated Curriculum For The Washington Post Newspaper In Education Program sports story occurs before, during students to compare the notes they Covering All Sports and after the game. Reporters try have taken about the action that to capture the excitement, the took place. On the Web ➤ pauses and the disappointments of a. Do they agree on the highlights http://www.highschooljournalism.or the game. What would they write of the segment? g/teachers/tipssportsrow1.htm about the game in a letter to their b. Did they record the # or identity 10 Tips for Improving Scholastic best friends? Give students “How of the players involved? Newspaper Sportswriting to Write a Sports Story.” c. Do they have questions that Steve Row, Journalism Education other classmates may be able to Coordinator, Richmond Newspapers, Use Numbers in Sports Articles answer? Inc., provides a quick tips list with Give students “Sportswriting by Ask each student to write a examples. the Numbers.” Read articles in paragraph for an article on the ➤ http://www.highschooljournalism.or the Sports section and review box game. Get into groups to share g/teachers/tipssportsrow2.htm score examples to show students paragraphs. Select one to share 10 Tips for Improving Scholastic how these ideas apply in actual with the class. Newspaper Sports Pages articles. Divide your class into the A variation: If you have enough More suggestions from Steve Row number of athletic teams, boys and monitors, you could divide students girls, in your school. Each group into four groups, each one getting to keep your sports coverage from is assigned a different team. Each a different quarter to view. Do the becoming a cheering section. group is to collect the win-loss activity as outlined above. When ➤ http://www.highschooljournalism.or record so far this year, including the paragraph from each group is g/teachers/tipssportsrow3.htm teams played and a highlight of shared aloud, present in first-to 40 Sports Feature Ideas plays from three significant games. fourth-quarter order. They now Have you asked your students to write You may ask them to record the know the game’s key plays and the a sports feature and received a blank high scorer and record holders, result. Now have the class write a stare? Use these ideas to generate more depending on the sport. For lede for the article. feature ideas or to make them specific example, most rebounds, longest You could use The Post’s to your school. jump, most goals scored, fastest Scoreboard and game article if 440-meter relay. you record a game that The Post ➤ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp- You may wish to make this a covered. Compare the article dyn/sports/highschools/ long-term activity, asking students written by the students with the Post High School Sports to compile results every week for one written by The Post reporter. Read sports news from public the whole season. At the end of Use the activity as a warm-up to and private schools in the D.C. the season, students will write a assigning students a game to cover. Metropolitan area. Also find features season wrap-up article as well as a If your school has several teams and columns that relate to high school scoreboard and season highlights. competing, allow students to select athletics. (See if you agree with which game and team to cover. Tony Kornheiser on Kwame Brown Write a Sports Article and LeBron James or Sally Jenkins On one of those warm school Learn from the Great on James and the Ohio high school days when students are eager to be Before there was Tony commissioner.) Check out the All- outside, ask them to become sports Kornheiser, Michael Wilbon or Met team selections (including those reporters. View a video of a portion Sally Jenkins, there was Shirley of a game—they may forget about Povich. “Who Was Shirley Povich?” archived since 1990 by sport), league wanting to be outside. Ideally, you and “A Changing Community, A index (links to Post coverage of your can provide a fact sheet about the Changing Role” both provide a look school) and stat central for up-to- teams to review before viewing at the reporting of Povich. date numbers on passes, rebounds begins. You may also have students You may also wish to encourage and scores. Polls will also give you who can tell about the teams. Pair students to read the works of the something to debate. 3 April 1, 2003 © 2002 THE WASHINGTON POST COMPANY Volume 1, Issue 7 KLMNO An Integrated Curriculum For The Washington Post Newspaper In Education Program National Sportscasters and Sportswriters http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp- Association Sportswriter of the Year. Red srv/sports/longterm/general/povich/ Proper Training Smith, NY Herald-Tribune, was the first povich.htm. Bobby Hawthorne. The to receive the recognition (1959-1962, As Steve Fox writes in his introduction 1965). Other multiple winners have been to the collection of Povich articles: Coverage of Scholastic Sports. Jim Murray, LA Times (14 times), Sports “Shirley Povich was covering golf when 88 pages. Illustrated’s Rick Reilly (7) and Frank segregation within the sport made This textbook for sports Deford (6).
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