ABSTRACT
Almost certainly, covering intramural sports is wide open for the people. College newspapers frequently are so short-staffed they have trouble covering all major sports, let alone intramural games. Offering to start on intramurals is a marvelous way to create a staff job for themselves nearby metros won't be interested in regular coverage of intramural sports. One huge difference: In sports, if the people are covering a major event, television or radio likely will reach the people audience before they do. Therefore, in sports, more so than in other news, even a straightforward spot-news story must have an analytical or otherwise exclusive angle that the people electronic competitors don’t have. Games themselves are only part of the sports story for their reader/fans. Three areas of reader/fan interest offer the people particularly strong story possibilities: Player lifestyle, the business of sports and Health and injuries.
