Media coverage of athletes and teams has morphed into a field that calls for an array of skills, as reporters chronicle the games, personalities and businesses that collectively have such powerful hold on the American psyche. Students will learn the skills necessary to produce a range of sports journalism – game stories, features, analyses, profiles, accountability pieces, and enterprise articles. We will examine the many ways sports now intertwines with, and impacts, how we think about various issues in our society, including race and civil rights, gender, politics, public health (such as the Covid-19 pandemic), and the entertainment world in general.