It was almost 30 plus years ago that Linda Robertson wrote her first sports article for the University of North Carolina’s student newspaper. From then on Robertson has won multiple awards, prove to be a true inspiration for the younger generation of writers.
After graduating college, Robertson accepted a job at Miami Herald, where she writes sports features and columns.
Since writing for the Miami Herald, Robertson has written articles on just about everything in sports. From the Olympic Games to the Super Bowls, Orange Bowls, Wimbledon, and NBA Finals. Even on many of the worship sports idol of today like Lance Armstrong, the William’s sisters, and Marion Jones. “Robertson’s columns touch on all sports, at all levels of competition, and
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She use her article to give her readers an insight of the characters and the emotions that they carry.
“The Old Coach and the Sea”, was one of the many articles Robertson wrote, where she use a
“After 35 years of grueling rigidity, of a life controlled by a 120-by-53-yard rectangle, he's free.”
On September 10, 2015, Robertson decided to help future writers better their craft by providing them with insider tips. Robertson informed the students with ways to become a national award-winning writer.
“In order to recreate the story, you need to interview more than one person.”
In the article “The only one who can stop Serena now is Serena”, Robertson decided to interview both Serena and Venus William to get an intake on the competitiveness between the sisters. Also included in the article was an interview, that Robertson had with the William’s sister
In “The Boat” by Alistair MacLeod, the mother shows the importance of tradition to her, which has been cemented in her since youth. Throughout the piece, the reader realizes that the mother comes from a large traditional family of fisherman, which in effect the mother’s most defining characteristic was that she “was of the sea, as were all her people, and her horizons were the very literal ones she scanned with her dark and fearless eyes”. Tradition and her inherited family values shaped her personality that was shown throughout the piece, such as her diligence during her husband’s fishing excursions to her stubbornness throughout the family’s hardships. In a sense, a large part of her identity came directly from her traditions, which she felt
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Jen Welter got a six-week coaching internship with the Arizona Cardinals of the NFL, working with linebackers and also becoming a trailblazer in the field. The organization has always been known for hiring minorities for their management positions. Known as Dr. Jen back in Texas, for her Ph.d in psychology, she became the first woman to coach for a men’s professional team last February. She was a linebacker for 14 years, most of which being with the Dallas Diamonds of the Women’s Football Alliance. She has also won two gold medals for the United States at the International Federation of American Football women’s world championships. She has always loved football and has been encouraging girls to follow their dreams, sports-related or otherwise.
“I have been writing stories of my own about athletes, coaches, and most likely every kind of sport that is out there. I have been interested in writing when I was five years old. But when I was five years old I wrote about other things besides sports, I wrote about animals, cars, and about the presidents of different countries. But as I got older I got into sports a lot and got interested into all these sports and I love how sports are very intense and has us sports journalists very intimidating about these games.
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Venus Williams, net worth is 60 million dollars; 27 million came from playing tennis (celebritynetworth 4). Her sister, Serena Williams, has a tennis career net worth of $30 million, while her net worth is $85 million (celebritynetworth 5).... ... middle of paper ... ... Aschburner, Steve.
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Can women's sports establish itself as a topic of on-going media and journalism curiosity? Currently TV stations do minimal coverage of women's sports, while newspapers and magazines do just a little bit better. In a recent interview with Gary Webb, a sports writer for The Spectrum, he says that "the people have demonstrated that there is an audience that loves hearing about women athletes. After all, they are somebody's kids, sisters, and moms". I learned that these sports writers love to cover women's games, especially girls highschool basketball games. Gary said that he would rather watch a Parowan-Beaver girls game over the boys anyday. Karen Winegar, staff writer for the The Star Tribune of Minnesota said., "Portrayal of female athletes is improving, but despite increasing interest and participation, their sports are getting no more coverage than they got five years ago" (1A+). Women's sports participation will surely continue to grow in the future, so the media and journalists better be prepared to increase their coverage accordingly.
In order to understand a plot of a story, one must be able to know what is going on in the story. In the selection, The Seafarer, the author recounts the tale of his disoriented life at sea. He douse the passage with aspects of emotion, value , and connotation. Without these qualities in The Seafarer, the story would be drastically changed. The way the author incorporates this information is through the story's setting. Setting is significant to The Seafarer because it allows readers to better visualize, understand, and ultimately relate to the plot of the story.
She was driven by something greater than trying to establish a winning tradition at Tennessee; it was trying to please her father. Summitt knew nothing but to work hard, and when she grew tired, she only worked harder. The player’s that came through Tennessee changed the way Summitt coached; in the beginning, young Summitt was trying to establish authority and credibility so she became shut off from her team. Older Summitt realized that she needed to connect with the players on an emotional level, so they would trust her judgement and coaching ability. There is no doubt that Summitt established authority and credibility, she has changed women’s basketball for the better. Summitt’s career is not defined by statistics or records, but by the impact she made on her players, other coaches, and basketball fans around the world. Pat Summitt’s impact on women’s basketball is a tough resume to match, and there is no equal to a woman of her
influence all her life and struggles to accept her true identity. Through the story you can
Society has been brainwashed to think that women can never be relevant in such a sacred, male-dominated culture as sports, mostly because of stereotypes that demean women. And this is a shame given the fact that women can shine just as much as men can if they’re given the chance. While the future may not look bright for women sportscasters, the fact that there are starting to be more women in the industry now as opposed to the past can perhaps be the first sign that gender parity may not be as unattainable as it
Salter F., David “Crashing the Old Boys Network: the tragedies and triumphs of Girls and Women in Sports” Praeger Publishers .September 30, 1996
Menke, Frank G. The Encyclopedia of Sports. South Brunswick and New York: A.S. Barnes and Company, 1987. Print.
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway was written as Hemingway 's comeback book. Hemingway was a great writer, according to “11 Facts About Hemingway’s The Old Man and The sea”, written by the website mental floss, before The Old Man and the Sea his last best book was For Whom the Bell Tolls which was written in 1940. Hemingway went a decade before he wrote and had another book published. In 1950 Hemingway published Across the River and Into The Trees, but it was not very good so people said that Hemingway was done with his years of good writing. In 1952 Hemingway published The Old Man and the Sea and it was his comeback book. Throughout the book, Hemingway uses Santiago and his long time out in the sea to show that it is important to