ESPN

The world wide leader in sports, as it is dubbed, has greatly influenced my life.  I can remember back when I was 6 years old and growing up watching SportsCenter at 7am before it was time for me to leave for school.  This is back in the day when prolific anchors like Dan Patrick was paired with Kenny Mayne, and Stuart Scott was co-hosting with Rich Eisen who now works for the NFL Network.  Since then, the ESPN brand has expanded to several other mediums like the internet and radio.  With virtually all media now being on the internet, access to it is as easy as pouring a glass of milk.  Every morning, after I shower and get ready for the day and check the weather report, I check to see what the Top Story is on ESPN.com.  Most of the time it is about a big game from the night before, but as the day unfolds specific stories about players and columns begin to appear.  I have a dream to one day be a sports writer/journalist who covers either a specific team and/or division of teams in professional sports.  From reading the stories on "the .com" as they call it on ESPN television, I am being given examples of how good journalists write and the specific styles they use to communicate the vast information located in the world of sports.  I wrote for a city college newspaper in California this fall semester.  It was my first ever journalistic experience and I would always go to the ESPN.com pages and columns to see how beat writers would portray certain events and plays during a game.  I remember my first story was the revealing of the new scoreboard which was installed during the summer.  I went to the website to see how writers wrote their non-game stories.  I gathered my thoughts from their examples and wrote my story.  Lord willing, one day I hope to provide young adults who are my age now with good examples of how to write and be good and ethical journalists.