Image from www.podbean.comBlogging spawned the ever-changing world of sports blogging. Sports blogging basically consists of articles displaying the facts of the sport briefly and then discussing the writers opinion. Sports blogging comes in two varieties, the average joe and his discussion on his hometown team, and the professionals and former players who give a fairly accurate analysis and have very credible and close sources inside leagues.
The first of the two is usually speculation although there are some gems to be found as with any kind of blogging. Although some times you end up with blogs like "The Officially Unofficial Missisipi State Athletics Blog ,"which displays its lack of reasonable credibility when you read the latest post "Seriously. WTF is going on with our coaching search. Greg Bryne truly is some kind of ninja. Don't worry Greg. Take your time. Make a great a hire." This is the more opinionated form of sports blogging and kind of fits under the category of normal run of the mill blogging. There is much more journalistic tendencies found in official blogs for leagues like the NFL or NHL.
I feel the official sports blogs that are connected to the leagues contain much more quality blogging and information. They appear much more like a twitter feeds with quick inside updates, or like the columns in a newspaper. An example of this is the the NFL blogs on NFL.com. In the articles there is much more credible and legitimate information. for example the linked article "Why is Gaither available" which demonstrates how near the author is to the league in the first sentence "Jared Gaither keeps popping up on the rumor mill as one of the restricted free agents who is drawing interest from teams around the league." The blog can say things of this nature and it can be taken as fairly credible as the author has various constant connections throughout the league.
Blogging as well as social media are adapting to sports really well. Twitter can be very useful to get information fast from all around a particular sport, but as in blogging, source can be sporadic and not taken for credible. In Erik Nelson's post "Birds Will Tweet," he states the benefits of twitter in a journalistic sense "Twitter opens up options for journalists to create news posts and updates while on the field where it would be otherwise impossible to get the information out to the public,"
Blogging and social media are finding a home in sports, and leagues are beginning to adapt to get the mass amounts of information out faster than ever.
I was reading through this and it was alright, but in this sentence, I found that there were a few things that could be fixed.
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First of all, shouldn't Twitter be capitalized? Also, the wording of 'like a twitter feeds' is somewhat awkward, and should be revised, so something more like "a Twitter feeds do, with quick inside updates, or like the columns in a newspaper."
As a sports blogger I totally agree with what you say.it's 50/50. Some are good, some are crap! I try so hard to keep my opinions out, but I've seen so many sports blogs that are just stream of consciousness garbage. B
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