Field Guide to Covering Sports

Field Guide to Covering Sports, 2nd Edition, is a textbook that introduces students and writers to the practices of professional sports journalism.

Author Joe Gisondi provides practical reporting advice across 20 distinct sports, ranging from auto racing to wrestling. Each sport chapter employs a Prepare-Watch-Ask-Write structure that outlines what to understand before an event, what to observe during play, what questions to pose to coaches and athletes, and what story elements to include.

The 2018 edition includes a multimedia section spanning social media, mobile reporting, visual storytelling, television writing, and radio writing, alongside a chapter on sabermetrics and a foreword by Deadspin founding editor Will Leitch.