In sports writing there are really only two types of jobs you can have. You can either be a reporter or an analyst. A reporter is just gonna give you the facts, no opinion or anything, just how the game played out. The analyst on the other hand is mainly going to tell you why a certain team won or lost and discuss what the future holds for those teams. So obviously the more prestigious of the two is the analyst. In order to get to the point where you are able to voice your opinion for a publication you have to first make a name for yourself as a reporter. So basically, it is a ladder that you have to climb.
Other things to consider are what sport I would specialize in. Most sports writers do not cover every team for every sport. They pick a specific sport and in a lot of cases a specific team and write only about that. If I were to choose a sport to cover it would either be football or baseball, leaning more towards football. And if possible I'd like to cover the Minnesota Vikings or Minnesota Twins.
Another interesting scenario would be to write for a fantasy sports column or magazine. Fantasy sports have always been a guilty pleasure of mine so I find this job to be highly desirable. For the most part, the guys who hold this job tend to higher profile just because it takes so much knowledge of whatever game it is that you cover to be successful. You have to be able to predict how players are going to do based on how much potential you think a guy has. This definitely has to be the funnest job in sports writing. In a fantasy magazine I read, the writer bragged about how him and his colleagues actually got paid to do a fantasy draft at work. Something that many people around the country do in their spare time just for fun.
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