All in for USA sports

This sports section touches its end, having covered a wide range of different sports. The main character has been this one, sport in general. The aim was not to focus only on soccer, but to get to know better sports such as basketball, swimming, football, hockey... However, soccer has also been present due to the fact that the author considered people needed to take into consideration unknown facts.

The experience has been fulfilling, because it has enabled me to be aware of the main sports sources and also information sources in general, related to the US media. It's always interesting to be familiar with this kind of platforms, who knows if they will need a journalist in a recent future,

Furthermore, this activity helps us to enrich ourselves and be able to work about stuff that we're not experts about. On the whole, you learn, you expose what you alredy knew and you acquire the habit of refreshing a blog, with a weekly publication.

There has been 6 posts in 6 weeks all of them limitated to a single topic. We started with the personal connection with the topic ("Jumping to fame"), I focused on Michael Jordan and my previous experience with sports. Moreover, the second post was titled "The achilles heel of Pelé", a relevant case study. You might think, why soccer? you have Jordan, Phelps, Armstrong, Muhammad Ali... But, did anybody know that Pelé played in USA?

With "11 platforms not to be missed" we learnt about the different sources we were talking before, probably the most tough post to write due to the thorough research it is needed. I chose Phelps, "The Baltimore shark" for the prominent character, taking into account that he is probably the best sportsman in USA's history. Besides, I wanted to put the spotlight on a different sport; swimming.

"Sports Big Four" treated about the social media, highly related to the online sources I have mentioned before. Eventually, "Sports brushtrokes in 2014" was a summary of all the main events that have taken place within 2014.

To sum up, I hope you have enjoyed not only this section but also the others. A huge effort has turned into the blog we see today. We're always open to suggestions and critics. Thanks for reading!

Tomás Orihuela

Journalism