AAN Association of Alternative Newsmedia

The End of an Era in Sports Writing?

By AAN Staff

november 19, 2003 03:49 pm

"The heyday of the alternative weekly sports section" came to an end two weeks ago, according to Wired News, when The Village Voice discontinued its weekly sports section. "Since its inception, The Village Voice ... presented some of the most innovative, interesting and imaginative sports writing published," wrote Glenn Stout in his introduction to the 1996 edition of The Best American Sports Writing. "The Voice sports section made a regular practice of covering events and people no one else did in a way that was wholly unique."

View full article at Wired.com