Articles related to "Sports Writing"

Sports writing was different in the 1930s and 1940s from what it is today. The general attitude during most of Joe DiMaggio's career was heroic coverage of heroes.

Celebrate January and motivate young writers with these writing lesson plan ideas related to winter, the presidential inauguration, winter sports, and Martin Luther King.

The rise of the online blog has given budding writers vehicles to express their views and opinions on a manner of sports as well as telling a good story or yarn.

Sports fans and fitness gurus can make money by sharing their knowledge and getting published in a recreation magazine.

Nick Hornby writes about the books he reads and the books he intends to read in this 2004 essay collection culled from Believer magazine, a McSweeney's publication.

Michael Morrissey's newest book, The Pride and the Pressure, examines the highs and lows of being a New York Yankee.

According to findings from an executive compensation survey by The Chronicle of Higher Education, salaries for college presidents remain on the rise.

The Best American Science and Nature Writing offers readers a glimpse into the nature of violence, the creation of our galaxy, the perfect hard-boiled egg... and more!

War, Baby by Kevin Mitchell is about the historic boxing bout that took place in 1995 between hot favourite Gerald 'G-Man' McClellan and Nigel 'The Dark Destroyer' Benn.

Bat Masterson was one of the most renowned "Lawmen of the Old West" but was not the cold-blooded killer that so many false legends and counterfeit reports claimed.

The tide in American literature has changed from the dream of writing The Great American Novel, to writing nonfiction in its finest form, as a finely honed craft, an art.

When writers are working to be creative and effective, often they will stretch beyond similes, metaphors, and symbols, and pump up their writing with strong verbs.