The New York Times sports section will soon go away. Why it will be missed.
, has many capable and talented reporters and editors, and it has produced good work. It’s just hard to imagine, going forward, that it will have 400 of them. And if the reporters go away, so does their ability to dissect the moves of specific franchises for the fans who care so deeply about them. Pro teams have been in the business of generating their own content for more than a decade now, and some of it — behind the scenes videos in particular — can be moving. But it’s not critical — ever.
If I sound like I have a romantic, even outdated notion about all this, it’s because I have a romantic, even outdated notion about all this. Growing up, I both delivered and devoured the Boston Globe, which in the 1980s had what I — and others — considered an unrivaled Sports section. The Sunday paper in those days weighed so much that I couldn’t possibly deliver 80-something papers in a bag by bike, so my stepdad would drive, and we’d fill the trunk.
There are still great sports writing and sportswriters out there. Where it and they are found is changing. ESPN no longer has a magazine. Sports Illustrated is no longer owned by a journalism company. The New York Times is closing its sports section. The craft is undergoing an overhaul, produced by nontraditional outlets seeking different audiences.
Maybe that’s just fine, a natural and necessary evolution. But I can’t help but think that something is being lost — somethinglost — in all of this. The idea that sports are a valuable and vital part of culture, worthy of being packaged with international and national news, alongside coverage of the theater and art and style.
Maybe the idea of a newspaper sports staff providing definitive coverage about teams in a town — and beyond — has long been antiquated. Fine. The future is more important than the past. But forgive me a bit of mourning. A pillar of a publication with a deep history of telling the best stories sports have to offer — traditional and out-of-nowhere — is opting not to pursue those stories. In that sense, writers, fans and readers all lose.
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