
On sports storytelling, audience growth, and building a sustainable business as a sports creator.
| Platform | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly | |
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| Issues | 56 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | 12 days ago |
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Hey, it’s Ian.
When I launched Write Sports last year, I planned to publish multiple newsletters a week, film a weekly video podcast and share it on social media everywhere I could. I’ve edited that list down considerably since then.
I or...
My wife asked me the other day, “Why haven’t you written about Substack’s AI thing yet? Everyone’s talking about it.”
I said, “I want to play with it first.”
My Write Sports edition from two weeks ago? 100% human. My Sunday Back Page issu...
My buddy got a promotion at The Athletic recently. He’s moving from the L.A. Chargers beat to a national presence involving free agency and more. Congrats Dan!
He told his Hops with Pop community first. I interviewed Dan last December to...
You’re reading this on Substack, which means I don’t need to convince you the platform works. Ten years of people saying “I need to start a Substack” instead of “I need to start a newsletter” already did that.
What I do need to tell you is...
I’m not just a writer. I’m an award-winning sports page designer too, a holdover from actual newsroom days laying out print pages that had to work whether the story ran long or the photo desk sent something rough at 11 p.m.
So I never thin...
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I'm a veteran sports journalist who runs Write Sports and The Sunday Back Page.
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