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Sports Journalism Courses – Writing about Your Team's Glory, Glory Days

Do you enjoy writing? Do you love sports? Then perhaps a sports journalism course may be an ideal way to combine your love and your enjoyment.

How many times have you been to an exciting football match full of goals and controversial incidents and returned home talking and raving about how great the game was, only to read something quite different in the newspaper the next morning? It's almost as if the reporter was at a completely different match, either that or they were so taken by the club's marvellous half time pies, that they didn't make it back to their seat for the second half!

You really believe that you could have written a much better account of the events. Why not take a course in sports writing and prove your point? You know you can talk football, but now you can learn all the other skills needed to see your reports appearing in magazines, newspapers and websites.

The passion and intensity of the Six Nations Championship has held you captivated, there has been plenty of rivalry at the office and the matches at Twickenham, Murryfield and the Millennium Stadium have left you and other fans salivating at some of the rugby on display.

Now it's time to share it with others and describe how the Welsh can really sing, how that scintillating try was scored, how that horrendous injury happened and how your team sat on top of the pile at the end of the tournament!

Andy Murray has reached yet another Grand Slam final and yet again has fallen at the final hurdle. Write about how the Scot is carrying the weight of British tennis on his shoulders and doing a really fine job under the circumstances or take an opposing view that once again, a British tennis star proves to be a great underachiever and never lifts the trophies that are the most coveted!

There has probably never been a more exciting time to write about sport in the UK, with the grandstand event that is the London 2012 Olympics now on the horizon. As British athletes begin to hope and dream, and to pray that they steer clear of injury for the next 12 months, you can write about what it's like to have a sporting event of such magnitude right on your doorstep.

The internet has changed and expanded the journalism market significantly. Not only can you still aim to write for newspapers and magazines but now there are thousands of websites and blogs entirely dedicated to the love of sport and sports news. You can even create your own sports blog, full of your own sports news!

We have only just scraped the tip of the sporting iceberg; there is so much to write about and so many sports celebrities to enthuse over that it really may be the perfect time to enrol in a sports journalism course.

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For much more information about how you can take a sports journalism course, please visit us at our website at www.ctjt.biz

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