The Man, The Myth, The Legend Bob Ryan is an acclaimed American sportswriter who is now retired after 44 years of working mainly as a columnist at The Boston Globe and a sports commentator on ESPN. Ryan’s career initially began focused on the Boston area but eventually expanded to sports throughout the world. Ryan attempts to entertain and enlighten his audience as well as offer his own opinion on current sports issues and topics. In his columns, Ryan combines obscure yet interesting facts with anecdotal-like storytelling woven with personal experiences to create compelling arguments on prominent news in the sports world. Modern day sports fanatics, along with everyday sports fans, are drawn into sports for a multitude of reasons, yet they
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While discussing the monstrosity that the Olympics has become in recent years, Ryan states, “This Olympic fiasco does once again illustrate the Bob Ryan Rule; namely, ‘There is nothing good in life that won’t get screwed up.’ Although I usually substitute another verb” (Boeheim….). Ryan has observed, for multiple years, the debates about where the Olympics will be hosted and the lack of excitement about hosting them. He draws upon what he has been observing and connects it to similar issues he has seen in other sports, implying that this will not bode well for the Olympics. By making the audience feel like he is directly involved and communicating that his experience and observations are telling him that the Olympics are going downhill, Ryan makes the audience much more likely to agree with him. Ryan uses his credibility and experience to further his argument that something needs to be changed in order for the Olympics to become as great as they once were in the past. In addition to developing his arguments, Ryan uses his personal experiences to introduce intriguing facts for his audience. When discussing his Final Four predictions, Ryan reflects on his knowledge of Coach Martin from South Carolina when he recalls, “He has a great back story of being a second-generation Cuban-American raised by a resilient single mom plus a high …show more content…
In one column, where Ryan is arguing against Jim Boeheim by saying that the ACC is a North Carolina-dominated basketball conference, he states, “The heart and soul of the ACC was, and always will be, North Carolina. The ACC was founded in the 50s as a basketball league, and just because it was hijacked by football interests along the way that will never change” (boeheim…..). Ryan gives his argument in a storytelling manner to move his audience to agree with his point of view. In this example Ryan paints North Carolina as the protagonist in the plot line of the ACC’s history. Ryan counters this with “football interests” as an antagonist in the story of the ACC. Ryan is able to paint North Carolina and the ACC’s basketball history in a better light than the football interests that have attempted to overrun the conferences building blocks. This is effective because in doing so, Ryan influences the audience to see the ACC and North Carolina in the manner Ryan has presented them. This causes the audience to agree with Ryan’s argument and to disagree with Boeheim's claim that the ACC should focus more on New York than the
While discussing the monstrosity that the Olympics has become in recent years, Ryan states, “This Olympic fiasco does once again illustrate the Bob Ryan Rule; namely, ‘There is nothing good in life that won’t get screwed up.’ Although I usually substitute another verb” (Boeheim….). Ryan has observed, for multiple years, the debates about where the Olympics will be hosted and the lack of excitement about hosting them. He draws upon what he has been observing and connects it to similar issues he has seen in other sports, implying that this will not bode well for the Olympics. By making the audience feel like he is directly involved and communicating that his experience and observations are telling him that the Olympics are going downhill, Ryan makes the audience much more likely to agree with him. Ryan uses his credibility and experience to further his argument that something needs to be changed in order for the Olympics to become as great as they once were in the past. In addition to developing his arguments, Ryan uses his personal experiences to introduce intriguing facts for his audience. When discussing his Final Four predictions, Ryan reflects on his knowledge of Coach Martin from South Carolina when he recalls, “He has a great back story of being a second-generation Cuban-American raised by a resilient single mom plus a high …show more content…
In one column, where Ryan is arguing against Jim Boeheim by saying that the ACC is a North Carolina-dominated basketball conference, he states, “The heart and soul of the ACC was, and always will be, North Carolina. The ACC was founded in the 50s as a basketball league, and just because it was hijacked by football interests along the way that will never change” (boeheim…..). Ryan gives his argument in a storytelling manner to move his audience to agree with his point of view. In this example Ryan paints North Carolina as the protagonist in the plot line of the ACC’s history. Ryan counters this with “football interests” as an antagonist in the story of the ACC. Ryan is able to paint North Carolina and the ACC’s basketball history in a better light than the football interests that have attempted to overrun the conferences building blocks. This is effective because in doing so, Ryan influences the audience to see the ACC and North Carolina in the manner Ryan has presented them. This causes the audience to agree with Ryan’s argument and to disagree with Boeheim's claim that the ACC should focus more on New York than the