sports story
Game-centered tale
A sports story is a narrative centered on athletic competition, whether journalism covering games and athletes or fiction using sports as its dramatic setting.
The genre emphasizes themes of competition, teamwork, personal triumph, and defeat.
He wrote sports stories for the local paper for thirty years.
Rocky is the quintessential sports story.
- athleteSports competitor
- underdogPresumed loser beforehand
- against all oddsDespite extreme improbability
- rags to richesDramatic upward social mobility
- comebackRecovery after decline
champion · hall of fame · victory · defeat · triumph · rivalry · big game · coach · team spirit · locker room · buzzer-beater · last-ditch effort · injury · redemption · headline · score · draft · rookie
- storiestale, tales, myth, legend, fable
- journalismreporters, interview, editors, student editors, school paper
- student writingbook report, student essays, college essay, personal narrative, persuasive essay
- YA fictionyoung adult, YA, teen romance, teenage protagonists, juvenile fiction
sports storyhard news
Factual, timely journalism
war reporting · financial news · breaking news · investigative journalism · economic analysis
sports storyscholarly paper
Formal academic research document
literary criticism · scientific study · legal brief · book review · documentary
sport, story, sports, stories, sporting, sporty, sportive, sportsman, sportsmanship