Last week, I reached out to the Anchorage Daily News, where I worked once upon a time. I queried whether they might like me to cover the local golf tournaments for them, but I heard nothing back.
Maybe I still will get a response from ADN, but the more I think it over, I’m not sure I’d have time or energy to put myself under deadline pressure on my days off.
This past weekend was a great opportunity to test my ability to cover a golf tournament for my own website. The senior state championship was going on in Settlers Bay. I couldn’t bear the thought of driving out to Settlers to cover the event in person, so I decided to cover from afar. I would track scores and write up something fun. That didn’t work, because I couldn’t find the scores.
So, the golf tournament was a secret to everyone who wasn’t in it, which has become the norm. The bitterness in that statement is not directed at anyone. I’m just coming to the conclusion that the days where everyone in town is aware of events like the State Am are gone.
I’ve known this day was coming, but all local sports have become niche groups on Facebook and the like. People who don’t play softball, for example, will have no way of knowing how the big softball leagues are doing in town.
Maybe nobody ever cared anyway, and this new reality is the most honest reality. It becomes more and more apparent that my website will become more of a personal journal in which I ramble to nobody about golf in Alaska. Maybe that’s not a bad thing.
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