Special Olympics

[SoSueMe]

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Am I going to hell for laughing — hard — at this post?

 

[JD Canon]

i'm sure once you go, you'll meet someone who will inspire you to write about them.

maybe if you just go into it with the mindset that you're only going to run a standalone photo, it will make it easier to just talk to a lot of people without having to worry about getting quotes or finding the angle.

and the more you get to know the people participating ? they're not all kids ? the easier it will be to report. look at it as one of those "everyone has a story" things. you don't just have to focus on the athletics.

btw - hows that crappy paper you used to work for in calif. progressing? still smell like sewage there?

there's a place for some community news on any sports page. what was that canzano column about his e-heckler that was laid off but remained a big blazers fan? it wasn't "sports." not that he was retarded, but it was still a great story.

and the sun-star in merced isn't what smelled like sewer. it was turlock, a town to the north. modesto's red-headed step-sister city.

the merced paper i hear is doing OK. there was a huge scandal in which the sports staff dedicated about 20 different news items to. a girls soccer coach asked a player to drive to a game, in turlock coincidentally, and was fired for it.

a rush of news stories and at least five opinion columns quoting only the coach's lawyer called for the reinstatement of the coach, who had been leading the team to an 0-for-the-season record or something like that. one-sided overkill for sure, but it was big news in merced i guess.

i also hear paolinelli's all up in there impersonating other people on their blog site and having conversations with himself. rumors.

 

[jakewriter82]

Well, the kids weren't that "special" in the sense that I could talk to most of them.
I started the story saying that what people perceive as Special Olympics isn't always true.
The kids I talked to today, ranging from grade school to high school, were all pretty normal kids aside from their disorders.

Before I went in to the bowling alley, I expected to see kids who couldn't bowl without those stands that you push the ball down.
They were all pretty good bowlers though.
The SO organization here in the state has raised $1.8 million in the past 10 years and auctions off a new truck every year, so I mentioned that also.

 

[MU_was_not_so_hard]

now I'm sure I'm going to get dragged through the coals for this one, but I have a sincere question.

How does your paper deal with the Special Olympics?

Is it a sport? Should I take pictures?

This woman came in today and said they were having a special Olympics bowling event tomorrow morning and was wondering if I could come and cover it.

Being that there isn't a whole lot going on the next few days, I agreed to go.
I'm bringing my camera, but I'm feeling a little weird about shooting down-syndrome kids bowling and putting it on the sports page.

Is it a good idea to cover this?
Obviously covering it like a normal bowling event isn't very realistic, so I'm thinking of writing a feature on it....But I dunno. I'd rather just go volunteer than write a story on them.

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