ABSTRACT
Some sports writers would argue that they’ve spent a lifetime preparing for their profession. The unofficial qualifications for becoming a sports writer include collecting and trading baseball cards, combing through newspaper boxscores, playing Little League baseball, midget football and/or youth basketball, watching and listening to ESPN, and most importantly, arguing with childhood friends about crucial issues such as the legitimacy of bowling as a sport, the athleticism of auto racers and whether soccer will ever catch on in the United States. The truth is, it takes more than that to be a sports writer.
