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 journalist.
