Comprehensive Sports Journalist Website

http://www.newavenue.net/

I was searching around on the internet and I happened to discover an article about a national sports journalism website. This site is supposed to have appeal to people who are interested in sports broadcasting, marketing, or those studying sports journalism. This website screams to me because sports journalism is my passion. I was very interested in the fact that this website must compete with ESPN.com as well as ESPN magazine and cable channels. When you actually think about it, people who love sports automatically go to ESPN when they want the latest sports news, statistics, and game analysis. Because of this, I began to wonder, what can this site offer that ESPN as a whole can't? First of all it is based on the web unlike ESPN. This idea is massively important because we are in a day and age where people search the web for their news. We learned in class about a term called "info snacking" this is the idea that people don't generally go on the web to read entire articles. They go on the web and get the summary of what is happening in the news. ESPN is very good at putting the main points on their home site. On game day they include schedules, scores, and analysis from sports experts. So once again I ask, what can this new comprehensive sports site do?

Perhaps this website's main goal is to appeal to those who know about journalism and who aren't just interested in game scores. Perhaps this site wants to entice true journalists who want to see more news writing and not just a recap of the game by an ex-player. I'm an avid ESPN.com and cable channel user and I know that ESPN tends to focus more on quick facts than on actual physical sports writing on their website. Maybe this new site intends to pick up the slack and create a clean form of sports journalism complete with statistics and facts, but they want to put it in a more journalistic form online. I totally support this idea and commend the website creaters for attempting to raise the standards of sports journalism. I personally feel that sports journalism is becoming close to the purest form of journalism and this website is attempting to make it even more pure. For that I commend them. ~Loose Lips Sink Ships~

article:
http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/11885.html
sports site:
http://sportsjournalism.org/