Probably the two busiest weeks of my semester are now over and it is right in time for basketball season to really get started. Tuesday was the Black and Gold game and tomorrow is the first exhibition. Things have been going pretty well lately, so I hope we can keep that up.
One of the big things I have been working on this year is confidence. I realized that if I come back to the newsroom with a good idea of who I want to talk about, it is a lot easier to write a readable story. If you feel comfortable with your knowledge of the subject, then you ask better questions and the story flows out of you much easier. That is a big reason why the experienced beat writers have an advantage. They know so much about the team that they can fill in context so much better.
I think basketball will be easier to catch up to the other beat writers than football. In football, there are so many players and the whole game is so complex that just about anybody will have a fair share of catching up to do. In basketball, however, there are so few players and the game is much more straight forward. My biggest disadvantage is that I was abroad second semester of last year so I didn't get to see the team play much, but I already feel like I have a good understanding of what happened last year.
Other then that, Greg said on Thursday that we will be having at least one Tiger Tipoff special edition and the stories need to be in before the semester break. The special edition will come out in January, before the start of Big 12 season, so the stories will have to be for the most part not timely. John and I will have to sit down and figure out what we'll want to do, but I think we've already got some ideas that could work.
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