What is a more interesting sports story for you...?(see inside)
A top seeded athlete that gets ousted by a teenager at a world class/grand slam event...
An athlete is arrested...
A link to a current/ongoing sports event...
Which do you think should be front page stories on Mahalo?
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I think this is one of the things that makes people like Michael Lewis, Malcolm Gladwell and Bill Simmons so popular - they mix current with depth (in very different ways) extremely well.
Michael Lewis on Shane Battier: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/magazine/15Battier-t.html
Malcolm Gladwell on Underdogs:
http://www.gladwell.com/2009/2009_05_11_a_david.html
Bill Simmons on US/Mexico Soccer:
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/090817
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M$1. An athlete is arrested...
2. A top seeded athlete that gets ousted by a teenager at a world class/grand slam event..
3. A link to a current/ongoing sports event...
4. A link to an event that ended three weeks ago...
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Your guesses @robbrown are incorrect...the top seeded athlete being ousted by an upstart is nowhere to be found on Mahalo sports news...and no front page link to the current grand slam event that this story sprung from...
The only front page news stories are either police log types or links to golf events that happened earlier this summer...oh well...maybe Mahalo isn't supposed to be a sports page, more of a celebrity gossip spot, and I guess that's ok.
She asked "for you", so no need to guess!
Unless you suffer from Introspection Deficit Disorder, which I know you don't. :)
Sorry Hillo, I think that I misunderstood. I was guessing what I would personally find interesting.
The "guess" comes into play because we don't know what the stories would be. I wouldn't find a story about Dennis Rodman being arrested for drug possession interesting, but I would find a story about a U.S. Olympian being arrested the same thing.
ok, gotcha. Some of us love the police log stuff...esp if its athletes or sports we care about. Me - not so much, but to each his/her own.
I'm just wondering about 'fair and balanced' sports reporting or rather headlines right here on Mahalo (we do know what the stories are - they are on the front page right now in fact)- we've had front page biking, golf etc. headlines all summer and some Wimbledon...lookin' for some more tennis as its happening - to be on the front page - of course along with the police log 'gossip' - oh I mean news...
Is the "buzz team" accepting new folks? @lon would know.
Sounds like you'd make a great addition to that team. Looks like some of those sports pages make some pretty good coin... might be worth the little bit of work if you're interested in a variety of sports.
Btw I just made that condition up. Just in case anyone thought otherwise. :)
1) A top seeded athlete that gets ousted by a teenager at a world class/grand slam event...
Vey interesting. Who could you be thinking of here? :D
2) A link to a current/ongoing sports event...
Quite interesting. But frankly, if I'm interested in the sport, I knew that already. A link might tempt me to click to see "wassup", but I probably have places I look for that anyway.
3) A link to an event that ended three weeks ago...
Not too interesting, but I might prefer a link to a mega event from three weeks back to a link for a minor event happening now.
4) An athlete is arrested...
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Unless it's an athlete I'm esp interested in, I don't care at all about this. "People sometimes commit crimes" is not news to me.
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For an actual sports event to be interesting it should age a bit and prove its lasting interest. Sports events themselves should not be reported unless they are at least 100 years old.
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Having said that, a teenager being ousting a number one seed in an event such as tennis or ghe golf amatuer championship is a great story in and of itself, which goes hand in hand with a link to a current sports story.
I'm not generally interested in links to events that are three week old, unless it's an event that I haven't watched or heard about. Being a sports fan, most of the time I will have heard of the outcome of an event well before three weeks have passed.
The arrest of an athlete, although I will notice, is not something I read a whole lot about. As sad as it is, people get arrested everyday and an athlete is just another person. Just so happens athletes and other entertainers are in the public eye, so we know when they get arrested. We don't see the thousands and thousands of everyday average pepole who get arrested.
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Agreed on the event that ended three weeks ago, even if it is golf...
Here's on of Mahalo's 'Latest News Stories' - would you agree that maybe it's time to put a current sports event out there? "Follow the 2009 PGA Championships, August 10-19th"
http://www.mahalo.com/pga-championship-2009
Nice points here, and some great links to your suggested sports writers.