Read about a teen who wins the Texas state team track championship all by herself—two years in a row—and find out what one reporter has to say about keeping the reader close at hand.
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Sports stories can go surprising places. Champion player Andre Agassi reveals he has hated tennis since childhood. The Washington Post’s Les Carpenter brings together a Chinese boy band, a reality show, and the NFL’s efforts to invade China. Michael Vick goes to prison and subsequently returns to professional football. Who’d have guessed?
A week ago tonight, Matt nearly died in his football uniform in the second quarter of the third game of his final season at Westlake.
An hour. A night. Forty days. His family kept praying that Drew would wake up.
We call lots of things "stories" in American journalism, but very few of them are true narrative storytelling.
To me it’s more important to go to through the life stuff and then see it rippling out into the sports rather than vice versa.