Sportswriters Go Long Online
As the business of print publishing takes a hit, sports journalists find new outlets on the Web for rambling reads
As any literary-minded technophile will tell you, the Internet has become a haven for lengthy, high-quality prose, with sites from the Awl to BuzzFeed regularly churning out 4,000-word stories. But it’s not just rambling book reviews and art-world treatises. The art of longform sportswriting has also found new life on the Web.
