My focus genre: Non-Ficitonal Sports/AutoBiographies
My thoughts about this genre or this project: Sports are interesting and fun
My questions about this genre or this project: No Questions
My to-do list for tomorrow: Make Works Consulted Page.
Winners of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2009: Harold Larwood: The World’s Fastest Bowler, Duncan Hamilton
2008: Coming Back To Me, Marcus Trescothick (with Peter Hayter)
2007: Provided You Don't Kiss Me, Duncan Hamilton
2006: Unforgivable Blackness, Geoffrey Ward
2005: My Father and other Working Football Class Heroes, Gary Imlach
2004: Basil D'Oliveira, Peter Oborne
2003: Broken Dreams, Tom Bower
2002: In Black & White, Donald McRae
2001: Seabiscuit - The True Story Of 3 Men & A Race Horse, Laura Hillenbrand
2000: It's Not About the Bike - My Journey Back to Life, Lance Armstrong
Investigative journalism and sport Since the 1990s, the growing importance of sport, its impact as a global business and the huge amounts of money involved from sponsorship and in the staging of the Olympic Games and football World Cups, has also attracted the attention of well-known investigative journalists.
Topic Exploration for 2/10/10
Winners of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year
2009: Harold Larwood: The World’s Fastest Bowler, Duncan Hamilton
2008: Coming Back To Me, Marcus Trescothick (with Peter Hayter)
2007: Provided You Don't Kiss Me, Duncan Hamilton
2006: Unforgivable Blackness, Geoffrey Ward
2005: My Father and other Working Football Class Heroes, Gary Imlach
2004: Basil D'Oliveira, Peter Oborne
2003: Broken Dreams, Tom Bower
2002: In Black & White, Donald McRae
2001: Seabiscuit - The True Story Of 3 Men & A Race Horse, Laura Hillenbrand
2000: It's Not About the Bike - My Journey Back to Life, Lance Armstrong
Investigative journalism and sportSince the 1990s, the growing importance of sport, its impact as a global business and the huge amounts of money involved from sponsorship and in the staging of the Olympic Games and football World Cups, has also attracted the attention of well-known investigative journalists.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball_Writers_Association_of_America
Questions:
1. Why has Sports writting in general become so popular?
2. What has Non Fiction sports writting done for the major sports of the U.S.?
3. When was the First sports biography written?
4. Why have many sports journalists switched to long form writting?
5. Has sports writting increased or decreased the popularity of a given sport?
6. Has certain sports been hurt by its former players writting of books?
7.What has the Baseball Writters Association of America done for the sport of baseball?
8. How have specific players of a certain sport been impacted by the writting of themselves, by another writter or journalist?
9. How do writters Pursuade their readers through Non-Fiction Sports Books?
10. What is most interesting about the genre Sports Non Fiction?