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John Doyle's avatar

Thanks Daniel! Hey how did you find my Substack?

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Adam Firebaugh's avatar

I recently started covering high school sports games for a local newspaper. You're absolutely right in that there's an art to writing game stories, and my process definitely isn't polished yet. But I'd like to think I'm getting there fairly quickly. Here's an example from a few weeks back: https://www.winchesterstar.com/winchester_star/strong-start-to-second-half-gives-wood-girls-a-senior-night-win-over-sherando/article_569de2e7-7193-5214-9b0f-d55abd185c90.html

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John Doyle's avatar

Hey Adam thanks for sharing this and I'm glad you found my Substack. I'm on my way to watch my kid's playoff baseball game (2.5 hour drive!) but I'd love to talk to you more about your game story if you have some time maybe later this week or next. Let me know. It's good stuff! JD

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Adam Firebaugh's avatar

Absolutely! I'm free any day next week until mid-afternoon ish.

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Scott Christos's avatar

Got a kick out of the AI field! Maybe a sort from the future?

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Daniel Kelly's avatar

I really enjoy writing game stories (or match reports as they are called in my chosen sport). I volunteered for a few years at my local semi-professional club to do exactly this and enjoyed it.

Life got in the way, so I had to give it up. I notice they never replaced me, so I gather there wasn’t a load of people reading them but I loved it all the same.

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