Fans with Laptops: The Sports Writing Course – Jarrod Kimber

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Summary

• This is a course on how to write about sport.

• I never finished high school, never finished any higher learning, never worked for a newspaper, had no real contacts, started without knowing anyone in the sport I was writing about and without a single friend who was a journalist.

• And so, like the Unabomber, I wrote, and wrote, and wrote.

• I wrote my way into a weird job – global writer – at one of the world’s biggest sports websites, ESPNcricinfo.

• I wrote like no one else because I didn’t know there were ways you were supposed to write about sports.