The ride to St. Pete had me hoping this seminar would be worth the gas and the time to travel. The moment I walked into the room I heard the three speakers talking about Lebron James, the NBA basketball player for the Miami Heat. Immediately these speakers had my attention before I had discovered a seat. Unfortunately, I caught this seminar towards the end and had to piece together everything on my own. It wasn’t too hard. During the time when I had arrived they were in the middle of a Q and A session passing around microphones to answer general questions about the presentation. The summary’s main focus was on local and recreation sports because it is believed by Debra Simmons, one of the speakers, that the public can get information on professional teams elsewhere. I agree with her statement because local high school and college sports are what folks are interested, especially in their local community.
The seminar was tilted: The evolution of sports coverage: Do they need us anymore? Ronnie Ramos, another speaker, brought up a point that I strongly agree with: Fans bring opinions to sports. It’s okay to hear something from an analysts point of view, but as a sports guy myself, I really don’t care what they discuss half the time on ESPN. Sometimes they keep a story going for too long that no one seems to care about. Hello Bret Farve!? Another example of this was when they were all discussing Lebron James and his decision to leave Cleveland. One of the speakers spoke on why he got the attention that he did that I had never really thought of. If James chose to stay in Cleveland, you can tell a story about the city being happy that their all-star had returned, not too long or much of a story. However; there was a strong belief for sometime that James would play for the New York Knicks. Once he chose to go to Miami, New York fans were angry. It was the amount of anger nationwide that drove the story and as we all know, anger and drama sells.
I hate Twitter. I think it’s a worthless social networking site. Even though my dislike towards this site is high, I have come to learn and was reminded during the seminar that Twitter is a great social network to gather information,. The speakers provided details that sources like Adam Schefter, a well-known ESPN analyst, tweets about certain topics on sports that we as journalists can take and use as quotes or information. I also learned a fun fact: Only 10 percent of people on twitter are under the age of 35. Never would have saw that one coming!
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