The Easy Answer - Sports

Before tackling the more complex questions posed on our class blog, I decided to go along a loophole and follow how sports coverage in general has been handled lately. I haven't gone to newspapers to look up my scores, stats, or standings for professional sports in years now. Yahoo! Sports continues its ways in being the go-to source for breaking news, now being the first one to break the story that Lawrence Frank was let go by the New Jersey Nets. To me, this already demonstrates some of what the whole EPIC 2014 video was clamoring about, as the news source was not some trusted sports reporter for some newspaper or on even on ESPN, but rather, it was Yahoo!'s NBA column writer/blogger Adrian Wojnarowski. Let me repeat that for effect-- Frank, a well known and respected coach despite his team's horrible turnout this year, went to a website for his exclusive following his release from the organization. I think the revolution has already begun, at least in the world of sports, as the site is only going to gain more and more notoriety as it continues releasing the bigger sports stories.

I will look a bit further, with regards to the "top news stories" and local news stories in my next blog, as the answers Colin posed seem to come too easily when considering the future of sports news (or at least for 2014). Yes, Twitter and other sites will disseminate the stories, but Yahoo! Sports seems to be the authority that pays its employees, breaks the stories, and allows for its content to then be accessed. This model doesn't look like it's going anywhere anytime soon-- bloggers are the reporters, and the readers/users will continue consuming this media, and sharing it as well. Yahoo Sports! does a great job of making sure that their name is stuck on everything involving their stories, including ESPN's piece, so credit will always be given to the company, at least through all major sources pushing the story.