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Social Media has ADVANCED sports in many regards. But heres one way it has taken us BACKWARDS. ----- It is the classic skit of sports: Abbott and Costello’s Who’s on First? Today, however, sports is almost entirely about “Who’s first?” and while being first with information obviously matters in the business of sports journalism, the obsession with being first to shout out even the most arcane and meaningless “news” has so ballooned beyond reason that … well, it isn’t funny at all. Sports journalism – the well from which all great sports books have been drawn – has taken its eye off the ball. The pendulum that swings between breaking news on minutiae – length of suspensions, minor trades, contract breakdowns, retirement of marginal players – and “storytelling” on the far side has been stuck for some time now on the picayune.
Posted on: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 16:57:35 +0000

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