VAN RUSSEL ANAJAO ROBLES, PhD

Tanay Senior High School

Presentation Outline

ITEMS TO DISCUSS

Fundamentals of Sports Writing

Formula in Writing a Sports Article

Dos and Don’ts in Sports Writing

Sports Writing…

Sports writing is a form of news

writing – an action story. However,
a sports writer does something
more than a news writer. It has the
privilege to use colorful words with
quick tempo. Lively and informal
style that is usually centered
around a conflict.
SPORTS WRITER SPORTS NEWS ARTICLE

Sports Enthusiast 5 W’s and 1 H

Mechanics Master Describes the most
Excellent researcher thrilling and eventful
Fair and objective part of the game
Accuracy checker Colorful words
Pro Sports Vocabs Longer sentences
Sports Lingo
 Headline
SVO – Classic or Imbedded Angle
LEAD
1.Who won? Team/ individual
5 Ws 1 H
2.Against whom? standing
BODY 3.What score? Decisive plays, most
1 sentence 1 idea
4.Where? crucial part
8 paragraphs
at least 5.When? Best score of the day
6.How? Top scorer
Play-by-play, set-by-
set, quarter-by
Play-by-play quarter, round-by-
Summary Account round
Advance Story Quotations
Play-by-play / After the Game

It begins with the summary

lead featuring the winning and
losing teams (for ball games),
their scores, award, kind of
sport.
The body is composed of the
highlights and other related
details.
Veteran Defenders pummel neophyte;
Dacan High prepares for Provincial Meet
Karl Yuan Nava and Mark Leonel Alamag showed off their experiences
as they pummeled Jervic Patulot and John Mark Belga in the practice match-
up game of Dacanlao Gregorio Agoncillo National High School, in preparation
for the Provincial Meet, November 14.
Nava, A Grade 8 student and Second placer during the District Meet, beat
Belga in Board 1 with the time of 25 minutes.
The second placer started the game as he unleashed the pawn to E5 and
led the game for 15 minutes.
Belga Didn’t let Nava to have an easy win as he fought back by having
his strategic attacks that led the game to the last 23 minutes.
Veteran Nava retained three points while Belga remained 20 points of
accumulated pieces and hailed Nava to win the game via checkmate.
“Laging bilin sa akin ng papa ko, ang chess daw ay hindi basta kain ng
kain. Dapat pinag-iisipang mabuti ang bawat atake,” Nava said.
Rio 2016: Singapore delights as Schooling beats Phelps in 100m
Heather Chen
BBC News, Singapore

Singapore's Joseph Schooling defeated decorated US Olympian Michael Phelps in

the 100m butterfly swimming race and won his country's first-ever Olympic gold
medal.

The 21-year-old Singaporean won in an Olympic record time of 50.39 seconds.

Phelps came in second, earning a silver on 51.14 seconds - tied with South Africa's
Chad Le Clos and Hungary's Laszlo Cseh.

"I'm just ecstatic. I need it to sink in," Schooling told reporters after his historic swim.

"It feels great - kind of feels surreal right now, it's crazy," he said.

"I really can't describe how this moment feels. All the adrenaline is running through
my veins right now. It's a dream come true."
Dos and Don’ts in Sports Writing
If in Doubt,
stick w ith simple w ords

Discard unnecessary phrases,

Avoid exaggeration and
opinionated descriptions

KISS
Keep it short and simple

Headlines with imbedded angle

Still with SVO (3-hit headline)

Sports Lingo at its best

Be equipped with your sports vocabs
Dos and Don’ts in Sports Writing
If in doubt, stick to simple words

The search for emphatic and strong words should not

be done to sacrifice simple but appropriate words such
as ―win‖ and ―defeat‖.

Ex. Using three consecutive punches, Nonito Donaire,

a slender man from the Philippines ravaged the
defenseless Jorge Arce, a fiery fellow from Mexico via
knockout victory held at Houston, Texas on December
15.

Banking on heavy punches and tricky strategy,

Donaire knocked down Arce three times in three
rounds of action on their tight match.‖
Dos and Don’ts in Sports Writing
Discard unnecessary phrases,
Avoid exaggeration and opinionated descriptions
Dos and Don’ts in Sports Writing
KISS
Keep it short and simple
Dos and Don’ts in Sports Writing
Imbedded angle
SVO (3-hit headline)
Dos and Don’ts in Sports Writing
Sports Vocabs really help!
Dos and Don’ts in Sports Writing
Sports Vocabs really help!
Dos and Don’ts in Sports Writing
Sports Vocabs really help!
VAN RUSSEL ANAJAO ROBLES, PhD
Tanay Senior High School
Tokyo 2020
4x100m Mixed Medley Relay Swimming Finals
July 30, 2021
Tokyo Aquatics Centre
first time in 113 years

1st 100m – 52.23

(USA and Italy)

2nd 100m – 1.49.96

(Italy)

3rd 100m – 2.45.58

(Great Britain)

4th 100m – 3.37.58 (WR)

(Great Britain)
Tokyo 2020
4x100m Mixed Medley Relay Swimming Finals
July 30, 2021
Tokyo Aquatics Centre

Lydia Jacoby USA (2) had a goggle failure in the breaststroke leg of
the mixed medley relay

USA - Ryan Murphy (backstroke), Lydia Jacoby (breaststroke), Torri

Huske (butterfly) and Caeleb Dressel (freestyle).

Great Britain - Kathleen Dawson, Adam Peaty, James Guy and Anna
Hopkin
Tokyo 2020
4x100m Mixed Medley Relay Swimming Finals
July 30, 2021
Tokyo Aquatics Centre

According to Adam Peaty of GB

One word has changed the whole British team – belief.
We believe we can win, we believe we can get world records. If you
have belief, you can build everything around that and we showed
that here.

According to Anna Hopkin

I was trying not to think about it [Dressel chasing her down. I was
trying not to think about how far ahead we were from them.