Have Your Say – Sports Columns and Mass Communication
Love him or hate him, the sports columnist Rick Reilly has had a prolific career. He wrote the “Life of Reilly” column—appearing on the back page of Sports Illustrated from 1997-2007—and then continued doing the same thing for ESPN.com until 2014. In Part 2: Language and mass communication, students are to “consider the way language is used in the media.” More specifically, studying sports commentary allows students...