Any sport you don't enjoy covering???

[chazp]

Is there one/more sport(s) you don't really enjoy covering. The kind where you really have to push yourself to do a good job. I find basketball can be that way for me. Once the season is in swing and get one of those games where Team A is down by 15 in the fourth quarter and begin fouling. Sometimes it seems like the final quarter of those games can last a week. Foul, foul, foul, no time moves off the clock. It makes me begin dreading covering the next one. Anyone out there have this feeling toward any sport. I still take notes, do interviews and file a gamer, but it can be a challenge sometimes for me to motivate myself to cover the game if there have been several of those foul-a-thons lately. Any thoughts would be appreciated.

 

[Idaho]

Cheerleading and drill team.

 

[pallister]

UFC. [/couldntresist]

 

[sportschick]

Baseball, poorly played basketball, baseball, uneven ice hockey, baseball. Did I mention baseball?

 

[Mystery_Meat]

Bad softball can be brutal. 10 walks and six errors per inning.

Good softball can be a godsend. 11 innings in 50 minutes. Great if you're on deadline.

 

[buzzerbeater]

Idaho,

He said sport. ;D

Wrestling. I really respect the dedication and commitment it takes to be a successful wrestler. But it's an God awful sport to watch and cover.
Swimming. Who can tell what's going on once they hit the water? Not me. And swim parents are the WORST.
Soccer. Dislike the game with a passion but at least the clock keeps moving.

 

[Piotr Rasputin]

Soccer! [/thepeanutgallery]

 

[rpmmutant]

Rhythmic gymnastics. Actually had a youth and junior organization in the town I covered years ago. Some actually thought they were going to the Olympics. None ever did. Talk about psycho parents.
And as a former swimmer, with swim parents, they're not so bad. But then again, I wasn't that good. And I loved covering swim meets.

 

[Trey Beamon]

Ditto on wrestling and soccer.

Baseball at the prep level can be unwatchable, unless you enjoy 15-12 games played at a three/four-hour clip.

 

[jps]

soccer. period.
though swimming and gymnastics would definitely fill out the top 3.

 

[imjustagirl2]

5K races. Cross country.

 

[shotglass]

Cricket.

You're out there 10 hours, and they give you 16 ****ing inches.

 

[Smallpotatoes]

Bad softball can be brutal. 10 walks and six errors per inning.

Good softball can be a godsend. 11 innings in 50 minutes. Great if you're on deadline.

I don't care much for good softball either because it tends to go extra innings and it's usually decided by some sort of freak play.
I don't know if there are any sports I truly hate. Maybe cockfighting.

 

[John]

Anything at the high school level other than football and soccer.

Don't really care for softball or volleyball at any level.

 

[slappy4428]

I'm covering this sectional wrestling meet yesterday. This writer from another paper comes up to me and says "Hey Slappy."
I look up from typing in my agate and he says "Rose Bowl."
I asked myself, "hmmm, we're at a wrestling meet, not the Rose Bowl. While I lived in Michigan, I didn't go to Michigan and I've never liked USC." So I shake my head and wonder, "what is this fat **** talking about?"
So, wrestling.

 

[Piotr Rasputin]

soccer's great. You have almost no notes to take, no stats to speaks of. They give you minimal space because it's soccer, you quote both coaches, maybe the guy who scores the game's only goal, and you've got 8-10 inches. There's no struggle on what to leave out.

Can't stand swimming. Big regional meets in a large loud place full of shrieking high school kids, the air smelling of chlorine. You call the boss to find out just what you did to **** him off.

 

[Twoback]

Auto racing.

 

[ServeItUp]

I can honestly say that, when I was a scribe, there was nothing I didn't enjoy covering. Seriously. With one notable exception.

I hate, hate, hate covering anything below the level of varsity high school sports. Covering just ONE of these things (sport doesn't matter) involving younger-than-high-schoolers gives parents the sense of entitlement regarding event coverage we all have lamented on this board. No one here agrees with me that coverage of these events should be exclusive to state championships and any event other than that can be summed up with two grafs in the weekly community sports notebook or agate.

Plus, little kids giggling as ground balls roll through their legs are not the least bit cute if:
A: The kid is not yours and,
B: You're covering the event.
I like to see sports played well, with definite strategy and an attempt to win rather than just playing to play (per Herm Edwards/youth sports where no score is kept). That pretty much starts about age 14.

Yes, I know the future of newspapers rests on our willingness to cover these events so we can put people, places and faces of every error-scored-as-a-hit in our pages. Tough ****. I hate covering these things and no editor will ever get my best effort from a 12-and-under softball tournament.

 

[expendable]

I can honestly say that, when I was a scribe, there was nothing I didn't enjoy covering. Seriously. With one notable exception.

I hate, hate, hate covering anything below the level of varsity high school sports. Covering just ONE of these things (sport doesn't matter) involving younger-than-high-schoolers gives parents the sense of entitlement regarding event coverage we all have lamented on this board. No one here agrees with me that coverage of these events should be exclusive to state championships and any event other than that can be summed up with two grafs in the weekly community sports notebook or agate.

Plus, little kids giggling as ground balls roll through their legs are not the least bit cute if:
A: The kid is not yours and,
B: You're covering the event.
I like to see sports played well, with definite strategy and an attempt to win rather than just playing to play (per Herm Edwards/youth sports where no score is kept). That pretty much starts about age 14.

Yes, I know the future of newspapers rests on our willingness to cover these events so we can put people, places and faces of every error-scored-as-a-hit in our pages. Tough ****. I hate covering these things and no editor will ever get my best effort from a 12-and-under softball tournament.

Good call. Small threadjack...For years I went to great lengths to try name every contributor when it came to ;overing little league sports (nope, this was not my idea). Of course, by mistake, I'd leave out someone's two out, nobody on, third inning walk, and I would hear about it the next day. I loathed LL sports for that reason. Last year, I decided to approach the games like I would any other. Not one complaint.


As for my least favorite sport...Private school girls basketball.

 

[SoSueMe]

I can honestly say that, when I was a scribe, there was nothing I didn't enjoy covering. Seriously. With one notable exception.

I hate, hate, hate covering anything below the level of varsity high school sports. Covering just ONE of these things (sport doesn't matter) involving younger-than-high-schoolers gives parents the sense of entitlement regarding event coverage we all have lamented on this board. No one here agrees with me that coverage of these events should be exclusive to state championships and any event other than that can be summed up with two grafs in the weekly community sports notebook or agate.

Plus, little kids giggling as ground balls roll through their legs are not the least bit cute if:
A: The kid is not yours and,
B: You're covering the event.
I like to see sports played well, with definite strategy and an attempt to win rather than just playing to play (per Herm Edwards/youth sports where no score is kept). That pretty much starts about age 14.

Yes, I know the future of newspapers rests on our willingness to cover these events so we can put people, places and faces of every error-scored-as-a-hit in our pages. Tough ****. I hate covering these things and no editor will ever get my best effort from a 12-and-under softball tournament.

Agreed.

When I was at my weekly and thrice-weekly papers, I had a "policy" of not covering any team, kid or sport group that did have kids above the age of 14 involved.

I figure by 14 or 15, kids - and coaches and parents - are taking the sport seriously, have talent, and aren't doing it for recreation. You know, the same way I feel about my job.

Anyway, least favourite to cover: Volleyball
Least favourite to photograph: Volleyball - you have about three photos to choose from: Kill, block or dig.

Favourite to cover: Baseball
Favourite to shoot: Baseball