After reflection of my own sports writing experience, I know I responded in haste.
Having sports writing aspirations from a young age, years later I was finally given an opportunity with a fairly well-known website, which also included being a contributing writer to an annual publication.
My experiences are from a different viewpoint. After receiving about as many redlines to a submitted article as the keystrokes required to write the original, and seeing a final product looking much different from what was submitted, my pursuit of a "dream' soon ended.
In the age of the internet, blogs, etc. sports writing has become a thankless activity whose compensation is only one's enjoyment & pride in what they've written.
I cannot really relate to the frustrations involved in an obligation to provide daily updates.
Again, I apologize for being too quick to criticize without considering all of the factors for those involved.