Write Sports
On sports storytelling, audience growth, and building a sustainable business as a sports creator.
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Where your superfans actually live (opens the original)
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Start here (opens the original)
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7 rules for a sports writing career you own (opens the original)
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Year 1, and the question I still can't answer (opens the original)
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Fifteen months ago, my wife nearly got a job in Manchester, England.I had just started a Substack about U.S. soccer. The World Cup was a year out, and I had been following or covering the U.S. men’s and women’s national teams since the 1990s.So I made a plan: Pivot the whole idea into Americans playing in the U.K., and past that, to those playing in Europe.The job never happened.But that didn’t stop my writing on Substack.I kept writing, and somewhere in the weeks after that, the purpose quietly
The One Word That Fixes Your ChatGPT Logo (opens the original)
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Hey, it’s Ian.When I launched Write Sports last year, I planned to publish multiple newsletters a week, film a weekly video podcast and share it on social media everywhere I could. I’ve edited that list down considerably since then.I originally was all-in on the podcast idea. I wanted an intro where a vintage typewriter clacked out “W-r-i-t-e-S-p-o-r-t-s.” The outro would do the same with “— 30 —,” the old newsroom shorthand for a story that’s finished.I never got far enough along with the podca
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