Paper office to team office, is it plausible?

So here's my plan.
I figure I finish up in school in a few months, actually luck out and find a job in or around a major city (Charlotte, NC in this case) and from there work my ass off, build contacts and hopefully one day find an 'in' with an actual pro or semi-pro team.
I love journalism, but if it stays like this, then its not a long-term career choice.
What do you guys think, is this a legitimate possibility, or are teams and journalists so divided that I will inevitable burn that one bridge I might have crossed.
Thanks

 

It happens. Jack Brennan, Cincinnati Bengals, for example. Tom McMillan, Pittsburgh Penguins. Frank Brown, National Hockey League.

If you're going to work for a "semi-pro" team, you'd probably be better off at 7-Eleven.

 

Going from a newspaper to a team or league is no big deal if that's what you want to do.

Finding a newspaper job in or around a major city may be your stumbling block. You are probably better off trying to get hired at some low level job working for a pro team and working your way up.

 

no probably to it

 

David Kahn, GM of the T-Wolves, was a reporter at The Oregonian. How the Ricky Rubio situation plays out will give us a better idea of how we can judge Oregonian reporters on the whole.

 

An apostrophe.

 

Funny, as usual, I dont care, its a forum.

 

That's a winning attitude.

 

What happened to playing like we practice?

Practice? Practice? We're talkin' about practice?

 

It's also a forum for professional writers who are paid (poorly) to use the English language correctly.

Try taking that attitude of yours into the job market when you graduate and see how far it gets you. You know nothing. You will not be successful until you understand that.

 

On the one hand, everything on here doesn't have to be Stepford writing. Then again, writers who can proofread their own work are becoming increasingly valuable. I think that's a key point here.