Things have been relatively slow over the last two weeks at the internship, but I did get a few more opportunities.
What I thought I knew about keeping play-by-play for a basketball game, I was wrong. I had gone out and done play-by-play for a few football games before my internship officially started a little more than a month ago, and that wasn't so hard. Let me tell you, basketball is a whole different story. The game moves so fast that just physically keeping up is a challenge.
I went out to cover the Ashley-Hoggard doubleheader along with my editor a little over a week ago. My job was to keep play-by-play and stats for the girls' game, and interview players and coaches after the game to write a 300 word game story. You can find it here. (I don't know why my name isn't in the byline here, it was in the print version). Anyway I just wrote up the girls' game.
Since then I also got the chance to go out and interview a local Wilmington man who won a national contest through Facebook for a trip to the Pro Bowl last weekend. The contest was based through U.S. Cellular's fan page, and he was one of two winners nationwide. He was a pretty laid back guy, and you can check out the short blog post I wrote on him here.
Since then I haven't gotten anything published, but I've been tagging along with reporters to practice my play-by-play skills for basketball. As playoff season starts to heat up for basketball, I'm sure they're going to need extra help. Keep an eye out for me!
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Yeah basketball play-by-play is intense, especially when you have to write each play down. And I'm sure after spending all your energy keeping up with each play it is difficult to write a game recap on the overall flow of the game. I shoot video at UNCW games and I encounter the same problem. I try to get the perfect shot and end up not retaining anything that is going on in the actual game. Anyways, keep up the good work man and good luck with the rest of the internship.
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