I'm in my 2nd year doing Multimedia Journalism at Uni and I just got a sports Internship with Bleacher Report. One of the problems a lot of trainee journalists face is the fact that they sometimes can't announce what site or paper they are representing because their superiors dont want them namedropping to get an interview. For Instance, although I write for bleacher report, I'm not allowed to mention that to a player before he agrees to speak to me, I have to make contact and get him to hopefully agree to speak to me and only then can I mention where I want to publish the article. Writing about teams you support is the best of both worlds because then you are really interested in the subject, thats why I love to write about the 49ers and Nebraska and some other teams.
Really good questions, you always have to ask the usual 'which team do you follow' and which player do you admire' so I like the variety of questions you guys have