Word: covered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wrote back explaining that there was only so much room on the page to cover more than a dozen sports teams. I told her that there were only a half-dozen sports writers to report on those dozen-or-so teams...
...people who count most. I learned early on that you don't have to cover the "big time" sports to appreciate--or please--the people...
...editor told me not to worry, that after all I could cover the remaining few games without talking to the coach, and that it was time to move on anyways. It was the fall of my sophomore year, and I'd covered women's teams every semester. I could cover basketball that winter, my editor said, men's basketball...
...asset Angell has going for him is his job. Unlike most other baseball writers, who have to cover a certain team game-by-game and are constantly writing for a newspaper or magazine deadline, Angell is not constrained by such daily pressures. As the "senior fiction writer" for the New Yorker, he isn't preoccupied with reporting the details of any single, meaningless midsummer game...
...Cover: Photograph by Dennis Chalkin; illustration by Joe Lertola