Frank
Deford is a superb sportswriter, novelist and commentator. An
archive of his Sports Illustrated columns can be found at:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/inside_game/archives/frank_deford/
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/inside_game/archives/frank_deford/
Philadelphia
Inquirer sports columnist Bill Lyon is one of the best
sportswriters – or just writers, period – working in
newspapers today. You can find his work at:
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/sports/
Try
logging onto the sports section of a big daily paper. Find a game
story, and if
it’s written in a featurey style, rewrite it in a
straight-sports format.
Here are links to the sports sections
of some major metropolitan daily papers:
The
New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/pages/sports/index.html
The
Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/sports/
The
Miami Herald: http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/sports/
The
Philadelphia Daily News: http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/sports/
Chicago
Tribune: http://chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/
The
Houston Chronicle: http://www.chron.com/content/chronicle/sports/
