Kieran Shannon: Sport doesn’t just involve stats and facts but flesh and blood

The other day, during a guest lecture to students on the new masters in sports journalism course in UL, I tried, without maybe succeeding, to make the point that, to paraphrase that old street-corner song about love in the early Rocky movies, “there are two kinds of sport that you ought to know, there are two kinds of sport”.

The first type is the only one I knew of and appreciated starting out in the journalism game, what we’ll call the Jimmy Magee school of Know Your Sport.