Sports Writing

• Sports Writing - Creative nonfiction that covers sports, athletes, or other sports-related issues.
• Elements of Sports writing: Highlights of the game. Names of the teams involved. Type of sport. Score or outcome. When and where the game was played.
• Headline - appropriate sports lingo. Include scores. Use shortened version of teams or schools.
• Lead - Attention getter. News in a nutshell.
• Undesirable headline - Mindanao State University softball players defeat Holy Trinity college softball players.
• Desired headline - MSU sluggers rips HTC batters, 15-5
• The classic 5W's and 1H Lead - Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How.
• 5W's and 1H Lead - SMU poured 10 baskets in the last three minutes to edge out NVSU, 55-52 at the Tonus Gymnasium on April 25.
• The Key Play Lead - Best angle of a sports event is the collective effort of a team.
• Hero of the game Lead - Features a fan favorite, outstanding player.
• Analytical Lead - used when team executes a spectacular strategy that brings them to victory.
• Body - Inverted pyramid
• Key Play Lead - Marian Spikers blasted the defenseless Vizcaya Netters in the Volleyball championship game, 2-0 (25-13 and 25-17), during the Cagayan Valley Meet at Nueva Vizcaya State University on April 28, 2024.
• Hero of the game lead - Ace Striker Rossel Filamer slotted home the priceless marker that lifted the multi-talented Kiwanis Team over hard-fighting Cebuana Lhuiller 1-10 to capture the Fourth Cong. Pax Mangundadatu Footbal Cup before a big enthusiastic crowd at the Sultan Kudarat Gymanisum in Isulan, Sultan Kudarat.
• Analytical Lead - Banking on nerve-breaking wallops, deadly spikes, and tricky placing, Irineo I. Santiago National High School dethroned Lagao National High School Netter in the crucial third set of their volleyball championship game , 3-0 (25-18, 25-22, 25-19), in the Division Athletic Association Meet at Antonio Acharon Sports Complex, Calumpang, General Santos City on December 2, 2005.