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Sports journalism
is an essential element of any news media organization. Sports journalism includes organizations devoted entirely to sports reporting — newspapers such as L'Equipe in France, La Gazzetta dello Sport in Italy, Marca in Spain, and the defunct Sporting Life in Britain, American magazines such as Sports Illustrated and the Sporting News, all-sports talk radio stations,and television networks such as Eurosport, ESPN and The Sports Network (TSN).
Sports journalism is a form of journalism that reports on sports topics and events. While the sports department within some newspapers has been mockingly called the toy department, because sports journalists do not concern themselves with the 'serious' topics covered by the news desk, sports coverage has grown in importance assport has grown in wealth, power and influence.
I specially choose this topic because this is what I’m going to study, it fascinates me and I love everything related to sports. I think that the story of sports is very interesting and I would really like to be a sport journalist.

History of sports

since the start of competition, writers have covered sports in one way or another. Sportsjournalism has been traced all the way back to the time of 850 B.C.E. when the great Greek Homer wrote about the first known draw in Wrestling, as Achilles raised the hands of both Ajax and Odysseus in victory. The sports of wrestling, throwing, boxing, and racing were all wrote on in early Greece.
While sports’ writing has existed for some time, it did not come prevalent until recently. In the middle1800s American writers began to write exclusively as sports writers, but they were still few in number. During the time before the 1900s sports writing existed, but was still not widely accepted. It was not until 1914 that sports was written and spread in circulation, and the job of a sports editor was considered an actual job. This happened because the First World War was unfolded and it has to behidden with something, and the job of a sports editor was considered an actual job.

The Pioneering Period 1785-1835
Sports journalism during this time was obscure because of the Revolutionary War from 1775 to 1783. In 1790, Benjamin Franklin had several quotes in news publications about swimming, and the The New York Magazine had several articles written on sports.
In the early 1800s, the NewYork Post, Charleston Courier, and Richmond Enquirer were just some of the publications that were including sports in their papers.
While Boxing was still not accepted as a sport because of its danger, in 1823 a full length story was put into the New York Evening Post, and was marked as the first time this much emphasis was put on its inclusion. English publications such as the Sportsman'sRepository and Pierce Egan's Boxing were in circulation as well.

Growing acceptance
This period was very important in the growth of sports journalism, as the "penny papers" were looking for new, exciting stories to appeal to their readers. Sports began to grow at a quicker pace after 1850 because of the introduction of baseball, and new interest in team sports in general. With the higher interestin sports, came more stories about the topic and several publications like the New York Herald and the Spirit of the Times recorded sports events in their papers.
During the Golden Age, the importance of news increased and thus, the amount of sports covered increased as well. It was during this time that the average amount of sports coverage had its largest increase from the decade before with10.4 columns being dedicated to it and 14.6 percent of advertising space. "It appears that when the papers doubled in number of pages, they doubled the size of the sports section. This was only reasonable, since reader-interest surveys rated certain features of the sports section higher than anything else except the most striking news story, the comics, and picture pages" (Heath 1951).
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