Sports Journalists aren't going anywhere

Rick Reilly, Bill Simmons, Joe Posnanski, three reasons why sports journalists will never be considered irrelevant. Telling a story and creating images with words is what these men do best. They can create emotion by telling a different side to a story. The thing about them is that they use sports as the subject of their stories. The majority of the people that read their articles get them in magazines and newspapers.

Sports journalism has transitioned from being statistics and data to being another way to express artistic talents. Gone are the days of sports shows that only show the scores and the statistics. In present day "Real World", sports shows give the viewer a reason to watch television. They have video montages displaying phenomenal plays of the week and stories about people who have overcome huge obstacles to persevere through sports. All of this comes about because we the people of the United States and the rest of the world have sports journalists out there who care about getting a different story to us, the fans. There are so many feel good stories out there involving athletes that get overshadowed by all the negative things going on in the world. Many of the positive acts that they do, get overshadowed by the negative acts that take place and by the amount of money that athletes make. Every so often though, one person takes their time to find a story that will inspire thousands of people to take action, and it's those stories that make sports journalists indispensable.

The internet can't replace these fixtures as the new middleman, it just doesn't work. It doesn't go sport, internet, story. It goes story, journalist, journalistic expression. Sports is one entity that will never be relevant if people aren't involved.

Sports journalists aren't going anywhere. They can't, without them there is nothing else to sports besides the sport itself. Sports are the lifeblood of American culture. America needs sports, and sports need people to tell their stories. Without sports, there would be no next year. And without sports journalists, there would be no story.