Field Guide to Covering Sports (Field Guide Series) Paperback – March 2, 2010

There is the classroom and the locker room in sports-journalism education, and both are invaluable. No matter how many classes you take on the role of journalism in a democracy and the brilliance of Grantland Rice, you are at some point going to have to work for a newspaper or web site. Your employer is going to expect you to grab a notebook (and a recorder, and a camera, and a video camera) and come back with quality content. You are going to have to learn all the little tricks of the trade that make this job possible.Field Guide to Covering Sports is a shortcut through your first few years on the job. It won't make you a grizzled veteran, but it will let you go confidently into almost any sporting event knowing where you need to be, what you need to look for and who you need to talk to.

If you have to cover a sport that you are unfamiliar with, or think you know it from high school, this book is essential. I learned a lot of the new phrases for volleyball (a sport I thought I knew.) This needs to be on your desk right by the AP Style Book.

Helpful guide. Highly recommend to the novice and the pro!

my son now covers sports for local paper

Great present for my son who covers sports for a newspaper.

Good book for covering sports.

Student at st johns university useing this book in sports journalism class. like the spiral bound version :) meow meow

Thanks!