The job of being sports editor certainly isn’t an easy one so I have taken the liberty of compiling a sports editor manual with information and facts that you should find helpful. This job is an important one and the hard work and energy that you put forth should be well worth it. I hope that this manual will help you greatly throughout your semester(s) of being sports editor. Good luck and remember what legendary sportswriter Dick Schaap said, “I wanted to be a sportswriter because I loved sports and I could not hit the curve ball, the jump shot, or the opposing ball carrier.”

The greatest job in the world besides getting paid to play sports is getting paid to write about sports. Never forget that.

-Julian Spivey

The Echo Sports Editor 2008